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Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | Author: admin

If you want to make your pool look a thousand times better, pool decks can do the job.  It can be concrete or wood decking or vinyl even ; installing a swimming pool deck can shield your back yard from turning into a mud bog and defend your guests from slipping in wet grass.  It also transforms your yard into something quite surprising.  Depending on the type of pool you have, whether it’s in ground or above ground, your deck can be easy to very excessive, small or extend from your backdoor to half way around your yard.  It’s up to you and your position.  

There are more constraints to your pool deck plans.  As an example if you’ve got an above ground pool you wouldn’t be ready to build a concrete deck for it, nor would you want to.  For one, it would jack the cost of your deck to astronomic heights and two, it might like ridiculous.  No, with above ground pools you’ll have something that is portable and definitely less permanent than what an in ground pool would have.  Often you’re looking at vinyl, maybe something plastic or you might even wood would look great in an above ground pool deck.  Concrete and brick pavers are more characteristic of in ground decks.  

Digging further into above ground swimming pool decks there are 2 options for you.  One is to have a freestanding platform deck that attaches to the side of the pool and is largely a ladder leading up to a deck which has sufficient space for simply a couple people.  Then there is a ladder dropping into the water to enter or leave the water.  These regularly come with assembly instructions and are fairly cheap.  The other is a deck that wraps around the pool with a walkway space.  It could have a waist high fence to prevent someone from falling off.  It costs more but makes the pool area look fuller.  It will also help support the walls of your pool.  

pool deck design for an in ground pool is essentially left up to your imagination.  Only your wallet can limit you on what look you are going for.  Look at as many pool decks as you can before making a decision.  If it isn’t making you chuffed when you first see it, you won’t enjoy it down the line.