Self-draining Deck

Another step closer to a finished pool - they laid the deck around the pool and what a deck - It's not the normal tiles, its a porous sand and epoxy mixture. When you get out of the pool dripping wet, the water goes down into the sand/epoxy deck and runs off under the surface rather than making a slippery puddle on the deck. So this is how it's put on. Two guys mix the sand, epoxy and catalyst in a small cement mixer.

Then it is wheelbarrowed out to the pool.

Where it is raked to about 3/4" thick coat.

And then it is smoothed and compacted with a big trowel.

And, walla, a beautiful finished deck is formed.

They came back in a couple of days and put a second coat of epoxy on as a sealer. Still a little sticky to walk on. Now we are just waiting for the solar matting to go on the roof to warm up the water and we're all done, except for some landscaping.