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    • Rock, Brick, Coping Repairs
    Replace or repair loose and broken coping around your pool

    • Replace Spa Dam Wall Tile
    Spa dam tile often needs repair long before the rest of the pool due to the fact that this tile is exposed to wet/dry conditions and temperature fluctuations from the sun and outside temperatures more than waterline tile.

    • Pool Tile
    Described below is the most common reason for waterline tile failure.

Causes of Failure
For the most part, time is the main cause of failure. Over time things breakdown. But really what happens over time results from the effects of temperature, moisture, and solar UV and how they interact with the composition of the material.

Temperature causes expansion and contraction in most materials. As cement based materials like mortar, grout, and concrete heat and cool, they expand and contract. This process slowly loosens the bonds between mortar and gunite, grout and tile, and one object to another object.

Moisture also has an affect on materials breaking down structure and loosening bonds.

The most common tile and coping repair results from the breakdown of the bond between the mortar underneath the coping and the pool bond beam. This is called a cold joint. A cold joint refers to the bond between two objects that are not integrated, such as the bond created when you mortar a rock, brick, or tile to existing concrete or pool gunite. Temperature fluctuations and moisture as well as improper expansion joint construction can individually or together cause this bond to fail. Once the cold joint bond fails there is only one solution, remove and reset or replace the tile and coping. Any “repair” that does not address this structural failure is only temporary.