Pool guru help needed…..

[HNL2LHC]

Looking to start working on the backyard of our home. Going to start with the patio but want to plan for the pool and hard scapes to match. Want to do the patio NOW and pool in a year or two down the road. At that time I am hoping I will be in town full time. This will ensure maintenance is done on the pool to not have any hard water or other staining.

With the flooring of the patio we will have to built up about 3“ in total so the pavers might be the better route. But I want to look at all options at this time. I am also wondering if I should be worried about matching products down the road. I might be willing to purchase everything now for the whole project so I will have it on hand when doing the pool.

Was hoping that some of those in the pool business like @Melloyellovector or others might chime in with their opinions on the topic.

At this time we are trying to decide on the flooring. We are looking at a modernish style gray in color OR colour depending on how you want to spell it. We are looking at travertine pavers OR tiles. Just because it is easy to see we stopped in Floor and Decor to see what is there.

Travertine/stone VS tile - Curious of the pros and cons of each. I recall there being a discussion that travertine/stone is old school/design. Tiles were more today and new style. My concern is longevity. I do not plan on remodeling the pool in my life time. I am looking at it as a one and done mindset. I am not set on the products listed and open to anything that might be better.

Stone pavers

Tiles

Liner drains - I would like to do something a little nicer than the typical plastics linear pool drains. Maybe one that uses the grout line or a stainless steel cover type. I have an idea of how to make one from scratch I saw on a project I was on. However, am wondering if there are any available off the shelf.


Thanks for any response in advance.

 

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Next time you are in town for a bit grab the wife unit and take a ride over to Modern Edge Stone & Tile @ 1509 El Camino Drive. Heather and her husband are the owners and great/helpful people. They have a nice showroom and good size materials yard to look at samples/get ideas. They are across the street from Angelina’s Italian restaurant.

 

[Melloyellovector]

Well if you want modern and what’s in. large format tile or pavers. I suggest doing either on concrete base. Large format pavers ( sand set ) always move, grout blows out washing deck, they can clank when walking on them, the list goes on. But set on concrete base buy once cry once. Not cheap but it’s the bees knees
linear drains is all we do on large format tile or paver deck. Lay out is critical, must be in grout line. Sch40 pipes concrete set, then do deck, after go back and cut thru into pipe and no grout.
modern edge,in havasu, see Shane he’s the other owner. good friend of mine. Tell him Tim w socal pools sent you
other option MSI various locations has lots of large format options
or NPT national pool tile various locations they can get anyone’s paver tile etc…

travertine can look nice, it’s just so last year, lol
basically Az and Nevada are the primary areas still using it. Mainly because it looks nice and is cheap to buy. Contractors make good profit on it so they push it.