Replacing Tiles Around A Swimming Pool

This is often thinly applied and can fall out with movement or ice issues.

Replacing tiles around a swimming pool.

New waterline tile can dramatically change the look of your pool. Use a pool plaster mix or waterproof tile grout to repair the area after chipping and cleaning. This may cause minor cracks and shifts in the pool s walls and beam. Then use a grout saw to remove the grout around the cracked tiles.

As an in ground swimming pool ages the ground around it begins to settle. This is important if you are adding or replacing existing tiles. How to fix tiles in a swimming pool. Take a hammer and place the tip of a chisel in the joint of the cracked tile and tap it with the head of the hammer to break it off.

Looking at the coping from the pool side there is usually a strip of pool plaster above the tile and below the coping or a grout joint in between the two. So you have a problem with the tiles in your pool. Maybe you have a few cracked tiles or chipped tiles or more commonly you have a few that have fallen off and you want to replace them. Porcelain tiles are high fired and each batch will have different die lots.

Rob shows how to build up the bed behind the tile in preparation to replace pool tile pieces that have fallen off the pool wall. Glass and other decorative tiles are more expensive. Pool tiling averages about 15 000 but can get as high as 70 000 for large pools with luxury materials. The pool coping is the material above the tile line that protects the top of the pool edging.

Glass and mosaics can run you up to 50 or even 100 per square foot average labor rates fall between 4 and 32 per square foot or 30 to 120 per hour. The coping separates the pool structure and the pool decking. Ceramic waterline tile starts at about 600 800 for an average pool. You can pick up some tile repair mortar from home depot for under 10 00 if you have just a few t.

To replace pool tiles start by draining enough water to leave the damaged tile exposed and dry. Coping also has another use in which it acts as a frame around the pool. How to repair interior tiles inside inground pools. This part of the pool is about twelve inches tall also known as the bond beam.

Be aware the shades will not match exactly. Watch this how to video on repairing your loose pool tiles.