Pool Tile

We are a professional subcontractor with our own Tile and Masonry Crews. Such items we offer are tile and coping installations, outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, custom water features, waterfalls, and all tile pools.

Our company uses the finest construction material available for our all of our project. We use only frost proof tile to ensure all jobs are completed with the best materials. The stone we use on our projects comes directly from stone quarries that we personally select, thus ultimately freeing us from the limited stone supplied from the local stone yards.

On all tile installations we consciously uses brown coat prior to setting our waterline tile bands. This process serves two purposes; it provides a level beam for the new tile and also guarantees that the waterline tile will be water tight. Without brown coat your pool tile will not be consistently in line from tile to tile and most likely will experience leaks if there are any small holes in the grout.

As a professional subcontractor, we understand problems associated with common failures of tile and coping installations. Our company is conscious on all of our projects in order not to duplicate short comings of other companies. It is our goal to install all material the correct way, not the fastest way.

 

Our crews will always install the tile first on both new construction and swimming pool remodels. This is important for the longevity of the install, as it sets the level on the pool’s gunite beam. Next the coping is set on top of the tile. Many companies chose to install the coping first as a faster method; however, this is a poor installation method in the North Texas market due to the constantly shifting soils. If coping is installed first, the installation causes the tile to be directly under the pool coping installed across the “cold joint” that exists between the coping mortar and the Gunite pool beam. As the pool decking shifts in the future, this method will transfer pressure onto the pool coping which ultimately transfers pressure to the pool tile causing tile to crack or be pushed off of the pool beam. We routinely see evidence of this problematic install on projects that have existing brick coping or pre cast coping. The pool tile will be either missing in a few places or there will be horizontal cracks in the tile line. We avoid this issue because we will always install our tile on the pool beam before the pool coping, regardless of the material used. This strict adherence to this company policy sets G&B apart from several of our competitors. We provide pool tile throughout Texas and the DFW area including, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Plano, Carrollton, Frisco and Arlington.