Pool Paving — Pretoria & Centurion
Pool Paving Built for a Surface That Is Wet Every Day
A pool surround gets splashed all summer, walked on barefoot and wet, and it has to move water away from the pool.
✓Water runoff away from the pool
✓Textured finishes near water
✓Bullnose coping, straight or curved
✓20-year workmanship guarantee
200+ projects a year · 4.9★ on Google · Est. 2017
Claremont — wet-cast pavers, coping run in the same product as the field.
What Paving Around a Swimming Pool Has to Deal With
Swimming pool paving is not a driveway with a different brick in it. It is wet every day of summer, so a textured finish usually suits the wet areas better than a smooth or polished one — but the finish is your choice and we will show you the options. Levels are set so water runs away from the pool.
It is also walked on barefoot, which is where the laying itself shows. A lip you would not notice in shoes is the one people find with a wet bare foot.
Clubview — a drainage point set flush at the low end of the paving, not the pool surround.
What a pool surround installation covers
✓Free on-site measurement
✓Excavation
✓Compacted, layered sub-base
✓Bedding sand layer
✓Bullnose coping where specified
✓Edge restraint on exposed edges
✓Joints filled and washed down
✓Site cleaned up
Rubble removal is quoted as standard unless you ask us to leave it.
Pool Paving Ideas From Pools We Have Finished
Real pools in Centurion and Pretoria East, photographed once finished.
Pool Paving Bricks and Stones We Choose
These are the units we put near water, drawn from twelve pool surrounds we have built — our recommendation, not a manufacturer's specification. Samples can be arranged on request.
Cottage pavers
Small square units in warm tan. They follow a curve with almost no cutting.
Granite pavers
Grey, mottled light to dark, in a stretcher bond. The plainest surface we lay near water.
Bevel pavers in brown
A warm brown rectangular unit, the only red-brown surround in our portfolio.
Wet-cast concrete is the other range we quote from often — Claremont and Montana Park above are both wet-cast. We install clay pavers too.
Our units come from MVA Bricks, Infraset, Tuscan Stone, Technicrete and Corobrik — sizes and colours on our paving bricks and concrete paving pages.
Pool Coping Pavers: Edges and Curves
Coping is the run of units that finishes the pool edge — the lip you put your hands on getting out. It is set out first and the field paving is cut to it. A curve is where coping shows: straight units can be tapered around the radius, or curved Bullnose 600R and 900R units can follow it directly. Coping is bedded on mortar rather than on bedding sand. We lay paver and brick coping, not tile coping.
Where We Pave Pool Surrounds
We work within roughly 30 km of Lyttelton Manor, Centurion.
Centurion and Midrand
Lyttelton Manor, Centurion, Irene, Irene Farm Village, Wierda Park, Pierre van Ryneveld, Eldoraigne, Rooihuiskraal, Rooihuiskraal North, Clubview, Hennopspark, Highveld, Doringkloof, Raslouw, Kloofsig, Die Hoewes, Zwartkop, The Reeds, Heuweloord, Midstream, Midstream Meadows and Midrand. Paving in Centurion →
Pretoria East
Moreleta Park, Faerie Glen, Garsfontein, Olympus, Montana, Equestria, Lynnwood, Lynnwood Glen, Waverley, Elarduspark, Waterkloof, Waterkloof Ridge, Rietvalleirand, Monument Park, Menlo Park, Erasmusrand, Groenkloof, Brooklyn and Hatfield.
Pretoria North and West
Pretoria North, Pretoria West, Sinoville, Doornpoort, Akasia and Annlin.
Pool Paving Questions, Answered
How much does pool paving cost?
It depends on the size of the surround, the unit you choose, and how much levelling the ground needs. We measure free and quote in writing.
What are the best pavers for a pool area?
A textured unit rather than a smooth or polished one, in a size that suits the shape of your pool.
Is pool paving slippery when wet?
Texture decides it, which is why we choose textured finishes for the wet areas rather than smooth or polished ones. Drainage is the other half.
Do I need coping, or can the paving run to the edge?
You can run field paving to the edge. But coping gives a rounded lip to climb out over, and makes a curved pool look deliberate.
What stops water running back into the pool?
The falls. If the surround falls back toward the water, splash-out and rain carry sand and grit into the skimmer. We set it to shed away from the coping.
Can you re-pave around an existing pool?
Yes. Most of our pool work is around an existing pool, which can usually stay full while we work. If yours is faded or sunken, see paving restoration and repairs.
Get a Free Pool Paving Quote
We measure on site, walk the levels with you, and put it in writing — no obligation, no charge.
Call 061 448 6822 or send a WhatsApp.
200+ projects a year · 4.9★ on Google · 20-year workmanship guarantee · VAT registered and insured · Est. 2017
→ Paving the seating side too? See patio paving.
→ Surround faded or sunken? See paving restoration and repairs.