Services & rates
The rates — per square foot
Measured off the pool layout and held for sixty days. The fall, the drains, the texture, the coping and the first seal live inside the per-foot number — the only extra we have ever charged is rock we could not see, and we telephone before we dig it.
Pool deck, salt finish$15.25
rock-salt texture for barefoot grip · 4,000-psi air-entrained
Lace & cool-deck texture$14.80
knock-down lace that stays cool at noon · integral oxide tint
Splash pad, full package$17.40
zero-depth slab · in-slab trench drains · falls shot to the nozzles
Coping & wet-edge band$68/ln ft
cantilevered coping poured monolithically with the deck
Wet-area seal & reseal$1.60
chlorine-rated · two-year cycle, booked by us
What we do
Three wet-edge crafts
The salt-finish deck
Rock salt broadcast into plastic-stage concrete and washed out at day three, leaving a pocked surface a wet foot can trust. Underneath it: 4,000-psi air-entrained concrete shot to a one-and-a-half-percent fall toward deck drains, with control joints laid on the tile module so the deck reads with the waterline instead of arguing with it.
Lace that stays cool
A knock-down lace texture troweled in passes — the ridges shade themselves, which is why a lace deck at noon is walkable where a plain broom deck is a dare. Integral oxide tints in six coastal shades, batched through the full depth at the plant so a scratch finds more of the same colour underneath.
Coping poured with the deck
Cantilevered coping cast in the same placement as the field — no joint at the waterline for water to find, no seam between “pool” and “deck” on the invoice either. Bullnose or square edge, formed to a template, sealed with the chlorine-rated coat and renewed on the second-year visit that we book, not you.
The resort ledger
Nineteen seasons at the waterline
Guests never compliment a pool deck — they complain about one, or they do not. Four summers, zero complaints, and the reseal crew shows up in February like a tide table. That last part is the reason the second hotel used them too.
Recent work
The decks
Six wet edges from around Perch Bay — resort decks, a zero-depth splash pad and two homeowner pools that got the resort treatment because the crew was already in town. Ask on the phone and we will give you the street; deck owners like showing off their drains.
How it goes
Draw to opening day
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Visit one
The draw & the fall
The pool layout is measured, the fall is shot to the drains — one and a half percent on a deck, one on a terrace — and you keep a written per-square-foot number, held sixty days. Texture and tint are chosen from samples poured in your own oxide.
Pour day
The pour & the texture
One continuous placement, coping cast with the field, then the finish while the sheen is still on the surface: salt broadcast and troweled in, or lace knocked down in passes. Control joints sawed within twelve hours on the tile module.
Day 3–28
Wash, cure, seal
The salt washes out at day three; the cure runs its twenty-eight under a membrane; then the chlorine-rated seal goes down and the wet edge gets its second coat. Foot traffic at three days, furniture at seven.
Opening day
The walkthrough
We walk the deck with a hose and watch the water travel — every drain takes its share or we fix it before the warranty is signed. The reseal visit goes on our calendar two years out, and we keep it without being asked.
Nineteen seasons of hurricane seasons, and the only deck at the resort that has never been closed is theirs. The drains work, the seal gets renewed before it fails, and the coping has never once leaked at the waterline.
Our pool is small and they treated the pour like a resort job anyway — the fall, the salt finish, the flush edge. Two kids, four summers, zero slips that were the deck’s fault.
The splash pad’s trench drains were drawn around the nozzle pattern before anyone quoted a number. Three summers of summer-camp footfall and the pad still drains in the time it takes to reapply sunscreen.
Before you book
Barefoot questions
The four questions every wet-edge client asks, answered the way we answer them standing at the coping.
Salt finish or lace — which one?
Salt grips hardest and reads as classic resort; lace stays coolest underfoot and hides a leaf better. Both are 4,000-psi air-entrained slabs with the same fall and the same seal — we pour a sample of each in your tint and you stand on them barefoot before you choose. The week costs less than the wrong decade.
Will the deck be hot in the afternoon sun?
Plain concrete at noon on the bay is a dare; a lace texture shades itself, and lighter integral oxide tints reflect instead of soaking up the day. Between the two, a lace deck in shell or bone tint is walkable at two in the afternoon — which is the entire test that matters.
What does pool water do to it?
Chlorine and salt water both attack an unsealed surface slowly and a sealed one not at all — so everything we pour gets a chlorine-rated seal at day twenty-eight and a second coat at the wet edge, renewed every second year on a visit we book. The water stays in the pool; that is the arrangement.
Can you match our existing deck?
Usually within a shade — the oxide is matched wetted, in daylight, against a chip from the old pour, and the sample waits a week on your deck before anyone commits. Where an exact match is not honest, we say so and quote a contrast border instead of selling you a near miss.
When can the furniture come back?
Foot traffic at three days, loungers at seven, and the seal coat at twenty-eight — after which the furniture can stay out for the season. The deck reaches full strength on the same calendar as every other slab: chemistry, not enthusiasm.
Bring us the waterline.
Send the pool dimensions and a photo of the deck you have — the per-square-foot estimate comes back the same day, and the draw visit books within the week. The phone is answered by someone who has poured at the edge of a pool in July.