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DHTiling · May 18, 2012

That's a nice job Martin..

tobins tiling · May 18, 2012

Yep agree with dave nice job mate

Tony73 · May 18, 2012

yep , very nice martin1c

jonnyc · May 21, 2012

this is one of the trickiest jobs i have done i guess.
client wanted a 1 mt wide stone surround to kidney shape pool, but did not want a separate coping stone.
he wanted the paving to hang over pool and effectively become the coping in one piece.
I put disclaimer in as was worried that the stone that bridged the shell and concrete surround would crack on bridge join. builder tied in concrete to shell with steel and remarkably this has held for 5 years.
First we fixed 600 x random lengths x 30mm over hanging pool edge by at least 50mm .
We did not let stones overhang by more than 200mm as the tool my mate had made needed to hook over the front edge .
pool was not constructed accurately enough to simply make two external and one internal radius as per drawing for kidney pool.
For the tool ,Dave used 4 wheels off a shopping trolley and welded on to base plate
then he made a 1200mm arm welded to this that hooked over edge of pool with two running and lockable steel sleeves that would take a pencil that would be locked at desired distance back from edge of pool face .
furthest was 1000mm to mark the back edge of paving and nearest was 30mm forward of the pool face to allow for bullnose overhang.
we then got on a trestle in pool and run the tool and trestle along around the whole inside circumferance of pool wall approx 300mm under top edge of shell.
this tool marked by pencil followed the contour of pool exactly to front face and back edge.
we could then cut the front and back of stone off to an even 1000mm surround.
last job was to set the tool and template up to apply full bullnose.
pinned sections of plywood less than 80mm from finished coping edge with masonry nails in joints of stone.
re set tool sleeve and pencil to run round 80mm back from finished coping.
picked ply up and cut very accurately to line with jigsaw and spoke shave.
pinned plywood back down and now used portable dewalt router with water feed to run front plate against plywood, thus creating fullbullnose .
i think it was as tricky to lay stone level to pool radius as setting up tool and template.
in retrospect, considering the whole cost of project i would have made it easier on us if i had insisted that we cut all stone with joints at 90 degree tangent to inside and outside radiuses.
You can actually see the TOOL in one part of video.
sorry it is incoplete but thought you might enjoy the the difficulty of job

kilty55 · May 21, 2012

your a clever man jonnyc

jonnyc · May 22, 2012

not that clever at all really.
couldnt get the video of job on to the post.
tried to upload but was told file was too big.
any idea how i can reduce so can see what i was taliking about