Coping, waterline tile, and plaster recommendations.

[adubbs09]

Hi
We are renovating our gunite pool and are replacing the coping with tumbled bluestone and waterline with one of the tiles pictured. The triangular piece is a small section of the bluestone coping. I am leaning towards the DK350 and then the plaster will be the ansylbrite quartz cobalt sample to the right of that. They are 3x3 tiles. What do you think? Thanks!

 

[Newdude]

Hey dubbs and slightly belated Welcome !!

What do you think?

I think you need to meet my pal @kimkats. She's the Barroness of Bling.

 

[ajw22]

I am leaning towards the DK350 and then the plaster will be the ansylbrite quartz cobalt sample to the right of that.

That gets my vote.

 

[AQUA~HOLICS]

Close in colors.

 

[adubbs09]

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Close in colors.

Yes that looks really nice!

 

[kimkats]

You get my BLING QUEEN vote for the DK350. That is going to look wonderful!. @AQUA~HOLICS what color grout did they use? I am thinking it is a light gray.

 

[AQUA~HOLICS]

Yes a light gray was used on that job.

 

[kimkats]

@adubbs09 see how the light gray allows the pretty tiles to flow together in the pic @AQUA~HOLICS posted. I want to point out you could also use a white grout if you want each tile to POP instead of the slight blending they do with the light gray. BOTH are very pretty! You cannot go wrong either way. I just like to let people know they have options and what they are!

 

[adubbs09]

You get my BLING QUEEN vote for the DK350. That is going to look wonderful!. @AQUA~HOLICS what color grout did they use? I am thinking it is a light gray.

Thank you! I was leaning that way. I think they generally use white grout. Do you think that would be best or steer them towards a certain color? The pool interior is going to be the sample right beside the tile with cobalt blue flecks in it.

 

[adubbs09]

@adubbs09 see how the light gray allows the pretty tiles to flow together in the pic @AQUA~HOLICS posted. I want to point out you could also use a white grout if you want each tile to POP instead of the slight blending they do with the light gray. BOTH are very pretty! You cannot go wrong either way. I just like to let people know they have options and what they are!

I like the way they blend. One worry I had was with just two tiles high you will see a continuous line around the pool between the upper and lower tile with white grout and I wasn’t sure I would like that. What do you think you would do?

 

[adubbs09]

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Did you use the DK354 on the back wall here? You have two tiles here and I couldn’t tell which one. It looks more blue when they are all together versus the swatch. That was the same one I had right below the dk350 we are looking towards just a different color. Yeah I really like using a grout that compliments the tile to blend it together like you did.

 

[AQUA~HOLICS]

DK354 was used at the water line/raised bond beam and the RuCobalt 2X2 was installed for all the trim tile such as steps and at the end of the reef step.

 

[adubbs09]

DK354 was used at the water line/raised bond beam and the RuCobalt 2X2 was installed for all the trim tile such as steps and at the end of the reef step.View attachment 482894View attachment 482895View attachment 482896

Yes I feel like the gray grout looks good on blending on yours. I imagine it will look good with the dk350 blue that I was thinking as well. What plaster finish did you use?

 

[AQUA~HOLICS]

The glass/abalone shell was hand thrown just before the last trowel to achieve the best results.

 

[adubbs09]

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Ok thanks!