Repairing Old Concrete Coping

[Moneypit]

Our in ground pool was installed July 1960. Several of the concrete coping stones are broken and we'd like to replace them or install new coping. Anyone know of a source?

I have a couple of photos but will need to figure out how to add them.

[Watermom]

If you want to email some pics to poolforum AT gmail DOT com, we'll get them posted for you. Welcome to the Pool Forum! Glad to have you join us!

[PoolDoc]

This poster's photos unfortunately got buried last summer, and were never posted.





But, I'm doing so now as part of a cleanup process, because they are good examples of old cast concrete coping. I've dealt with these many times locally, and always found the problem to be that they were locally cast, using local molds, that were no longer available. This leaves four options that I know of, when they need to be repaired or replaced:

1. Use a high strength concrete patch to 'glue' them back together, when they break. I've done this with cement and Acryl-60 latex.
2. Pay the local company to make NEW molds and recast the coping. This is very expensive, so I've never followed through.
3. Find locally available coping that matches as closely as possible. I've wasted a lot of time on this, and ended up with coping that didn't match all that well.
4. Remove all the coping, and pour a new cantilever edge.

[TheGoose]

Thanks for the post. That looks real similar to mine built in the 80's and I always wondered what I would do if/when I need to repair some. They do have some battle scars through the years but are in overall good shape.

[PoolDoc]

Patch 'em before they break!