Hello,
I just had my above ground pool replaced as a tree fell on my old one over the winter. I have a trex deck that is in front of the pool on one end that was here when we bought the house last year. The new pool is about 2-3" higher than the deck. The installer ripped me off by charging me 500.00 to "work with my existing deck", and they never hooked up the stairs or did anything to work with the deck. So the round cuts from the old pool show up as a small space between those couple of boards and the deck, which I can live with or just replace 3 boards. But I first got the "Mighty Steps" and as most probably know there's these plastic parts you have to screw onto your deck that's supposed to be higher than the pool.

Now I've got the "Wedding Cake Stairs" and they will mount fine, but that doesn't solve the issue that first I have to trim the deck boards back a bit because the contractor left it so the rail is sitting on the deck at a slight angle because the deck is close to the rail height, enough so it pushes the rail up about 1". Once I cut the boards so the rail sits free as the rest of the rail on the pool and as it should, then I'll be fine there. But I want to stop the kids from sitting on the rail or stepping on it to get in and out of the pool. It's literally about 2-3" higher than the deck, so I'm trying to figure
Out how to make some
Step that would sit over the rail,
Ideally I would do it for the whole length of the rail, but if I can do it just for the part where the stairs
Go in that would be fine. I asked the pool store and they don't have any ladders that would solve this, but it looks like they do have ladders that would fix this issue as they have a platform you first step on. The store I got the pool from only has ladders that don't have a platform and also are made to go on a deck.

What's the best solution?

Thank you all in advance! And will having the railing sitting on the deck like this for about 2 weeks
Hurt the pool at all? He cut the caps and then put some stupid screw in them to hold them to the rail, luckily he didn't put the screw into the rail though. So the stor
Is giving me new caps. I'll cut the deck boards to fit correctly. But now my step
Problem exists.