Pool Deck Replacement at an Apartment Community — Roseville

The pool deck was the most-used surface on the property and the most worn. Years of sun and pool water had checked and split the boards, gaps had opened along the joints, and one plank had finally broken through into an open hole right at the pool’s edge — a trip-and-fall waiting to happen, exactly where residents walk barefoot to the water. The raised platform and its steps were no better: the rim board and stringers had gone soft and gray.

The mechanism was the deck’s own construction. It sits low, on wood sleepers laid over a concrete slab, and water had been trapped between the boards and the concrete with nowhere to drain — so the decking and the sleepers under it had rotted from below while the surface still looked, from a distance, like it was just weathered. The owner needed the hazard gone and the amenity back, without the pool area fenced off all season.