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To create the color on the pool deck, Ralston
blended L.M. Scofield Co.'s Padre Brown and Faded Terracotta
acid stains. Three Rivers Flagstone was employed to create
a band around the pool.
Although Ralston and his project foremen did a large amount
of work, no one person can take credit for the design. "It's
really a result of many minds," he says. Preconstruction
meetings were held with Ralston and his crew, an architect,
a landscape architect, a pool contractor and the homeowner.
Ralston suggested what hardscape mediums to use and provided
samples for the group.
"It was like a Mr. Potato Head," Ralston says. "We
pieced things together and mixed and matched until we came
to agreement with all parties."
In order to keep all of the deck's elements cohesive, the
same tile was used in a spa, around the pizza oven and barbecue,
and in the pool coping.
"It ties itself together that way," Ralston says. "It's
really nice to have juxtaposition in our hardscapes."
Because there were so many elements to the kitchen, there
were a lot of different types of workers in the area. "It
was a challenge to keep everything coordinated between the
electrician, pool contractor, landscaper, architect, and
the homeowner's desire to have t is built in three months," Ralston
says. The project ended up taking around five months to complete.
Thankfully for Ralston, he had three foremen on the site
- a masonry foreman, concrete foreman, and staining and sealing
foreman. "All of those guys have years and years of
experience with me," he says. "A key to success
is to have people in the field who really know at they were
doing."
TEL: 1 (831) 426-0342
www.tomraistonconerete.com
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