We just moved into an older home. It has an inground pool in the backyard - YAY! The only downside is that the concrete around the pool has several bad cracks in it, and will need to be fixed. DH is willing to jackhammer it all out and start from scratch with pavers, stamped concrete or whatever, but we're trying to research something that could be applied over top for both ease and cost savings. Any suggestions?
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There is a coating that can be applied by professionals -- it's a kind of pebbly mixture bonded together with resin or something, not unlike the "Hardrock" and "Flexrock" coatings that Home Hardware sells. It comes in different colors, but I don't really like the look of it.
I have the same problem with the pool that came with our house. The cracks aren't huge, but they bug me, and plain concrete doesn't look very nice at the best of times. I'll be really interested to hear how it goes with jackhammering the concrete, if you decide to do that. Just be very careful that you don't damage the coping.
All I know is you have to be careful as a lot of products really don't end up helping much and crumble away in pretty short order or just keep heaving because the base was never right to begin with. You might want to get some sort of expert out to take a look and see what you are dealing with.
You can resurface, howver I would be more inclined to do it right. Remove the old and redo the deck. Pavers are not ideal for decking. Stamped concrete looks great, however if you seal it yearly it will be slippery. I would tend not to seal it.