![]() ![]() Once you have the materials for your mold then prep the ramp for the pour. Make sure you have secured the PVC before making the cut. This can be a difficult process at times. The PVC can be cut in half with a circular saw or jig saw. This will give you the form wood you need to hold your PVC mold in place.Īfter you have made your form wood, then you need to prepare the PVC pipe. Once you have completed boring holes you rip the 2×4 in half using a circular saw. Then you can center the drill bit and begin boring holes every twelve inches. Take a 2×4 and mark a line down the middle of the 2×4. You will first need a high powered drill and a 2″ hole saw drill bit. The first step in pouring your own coping is making a mold. ![]() Materials for concrete mixture: 5000 to 5500 PSI Concrete, Concrete Sand, Concrete Fortifier, Concrete Bonding Agent and Cure and Seal. Materials for making mold: 2×4″s, 2″ PVC pipe, duct tape, 3″ screws, 2″ screws, 3/8″ rebar and rebar tie wire, 1/4″ pilot hole drill bit, 3/8″ counter sinking drill bit, lubricant. Nothing beats the feeling of clacking over pool coping blocks on a grind, but when you can’t afford the blocks the poor man’s pool coping is the answer to all your grinding needs. There are a few places throughout the country that still manufacture big pool coping blocks, but ordering and shipping these blocks can become expensive. Most of our modern pools now use bull nose brick instead of the 2 ft pool coping blocks we all love. Don’t forget to check out the Skaters For Public Skateparks web site, and feel free to contact us with your own advice. ![]() We figure, the more links this article gets, the more pool coping you are likely to end up skating. Why re-post the same article? Well, for one thing, you need to register to view the SPS forms. Carter also happens to be a Southwest Regional Director of Skaters for Public Skateparks. Then it reappeared on the SPS web site, and author Carter Dennis was kind enough to let us publish it. We had originally planned on reposting it, but it disappeared before we could get our DIY section up. On it was posted on the Skaters For Public Skateparks (SPS) web site in the DIY forum under the title “Pour Man’s Pool Coping”. This article originally existed somewhere on the web. ![]()
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