Pavers and pool coping
Paver and pool coping together make up around two thirds of this location, and the remaining third is interior tile and mosaic. That split is not a quirk of stocking, it is what South Florida builds: a pool deck, a patio, a driveway apron and a walkway are the jobs this yard exists for.
The travertine pavers and stone pavers ranges are the catalog behind the yard.
Travertine is the material of this coast
Travertine outnumbers every other material here and it has been the South Florida pool material for decades. Two things explain it. A pale surface reflects more of what falls on it than a dark one, and travertine comes out of the ground pale, so the tone is not a coating that can wear off. And the stone is naturally porous, so a tumbled face has grip built into it before anything is done to the surface.
Ivory, Scabos, Walnut, Latte and Mocha are the tones this yard is built around, the ordinary travertine palette running from cream through to brown. Marble and limestone are the other two stones in the outdoor range.
Paver thickness against tile thickness
The commonest thickness here is 1 1/4 inch, with a real group at 2 inch above it, and that single number separates this location from the others. A 1 1/4 or 2 inch piece is a paver carrying load on a bed of sand or a slab; a 3/8 piece is interior tile bonded to a floor.
Both are on this floor and they are not interchangeable, which is the commonest confusion a first visit clears up.
Pool coping and the edge of the water
Pool coping is the piece that caps the pool edge, and it is its own category, which a tile with a shaped edge is not. Bullnose, full bullnose and the remodel profiles each answer a different edge detail, and the profile has to match what the pool shell was built for.
The pool coping range sets out which profile suits which edge.
Broward County and the coast
West Atlantic Boulevard puts the store between I-95 and the Turnpike, which is a short run from Fort Lauderdale, Deerfield Beach, Coral Springs and Boca Raton, and a longer one down to Miami. Our Miami location covers the southern end of the same corridor.
Broward County is the core of it: Fort Lauderdale, Deerfield Beach, Coral Springs and Pompano itself. The coast carries on north into Palm Beach County, where Boca Raton and Delray are the near end, and the same pool decks and patios are going in the whole way up.
Marble and limestone on this floor
Travertine dominates but it is not alone. Marble is the second material here and limestone sits behind it, both in outdoor formats as well as tile, which is not how those stones are stocked anywhere else in our network.
A marble paver is a different proposition from a marble floor: the piece is thicker, the face is usually tumbled or sandblasted where a floor would be honed, and the tone matters more because it is going to sit in full sun for twenty years.
Outdoor stone finishes
Tumbled is the dominant finish here, and the four behind it each work the face differently: fine picked chips it, sandblasted abrades it, brushed wears it down with wire, leather softens it into a slight sheen. They are four answers to the same question of how much texture a surface should carry.
Polished exists on this floor too, and it belongs indoors. A polished travertine in a Florida living room is an ordinary choice; on a pool deck it is the wrong tool.
Pavers by the pallet
Paver and coping quantities are measured in pallets, and that changes the arithmetic in two places. Coverage per pallet varies by thickness, since a 2 inch piece and a 1 1/4 inch piece of the same footprint weigh very differently and a pallet is limited by weight.
It also changes the cut allowance. A pool deck has a curved edge and a patio has a border, and both eat more material than a rectangular room does, which is why the allowance on outdoor work is usually taken higher than indoors.
The indoor third
Tile and mosaic are the smaller part of the Pompano Beach range but they are the part a house renovation needs, and the formats run 12x24, 16x24 and 12x12 in marble, travertine and porcelain.
Vanities, moldings and ledger panel round it out. Ledger panel in particular goes outdoors here as often as in, on an outdoor kitchen or a pool wall.
