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   Mongo | Feb 28, 2004 09:15am | #1

   You could do it either way, but I bet that right now you want the perfect look, thus you're shooting for each peice being perfectly cut into the perfect wedge shape, so you can maintain that perfect 1/16th-inch grout line around that perfect radius.

   I only say that because I went through the same thought process with my pool last year, though I used slate instead of ceramic tile.

   Fuggedaboutit.

   Run the 3" uncut square tiles along the radius, and accept the wedge-shaped grout lines between adjacent tiles.

   For one, cutting the tiles will be time consuming, and two, the cut edges will have to be treated, perhaps with a carborundum stone, to soften the edge. Glazed or ceramic tiles with snapped or cut edges are a bad thing to have around bare feet, or worse...bare bodies.

   Day One of the intallation you'll yearn for the perfect grout line. From Day Two onward, you'll wonder what the concern was all about.

   From the unsolicited useless information department: I plastered my pool with a medium gray plaster. Looks totally fabulous, and the unheated water temp stayed right around 89 degrees all last summer from straight solar gain. Slightly warm for me, but perfection for the missus. I'm in CT.

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   linwoodb | Feb 28, 2004 10:25am | #2

   Thank you so much for the good advice!!

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   ANDYBUILD | Feb 28, 2004 10:29am | #3

   mosaic

   "My life is my work"

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   Poolman | Feb 28, 2004 04:05pm | #4

   Consider having curved capstones cut to the curbe. bullnosed on both sides, set then in with a small notch to allow spill into pool.  This will create a little waterfall for you, enhance the "skimming" action in the spa, look GREAT, be safer than tile (slippery when wet, people will walk on the wall), and in many freeze/thaw climates, last longer.

   untill the circumstances change, my answer will remain the same...