Pool Decks
Pool decks built to be walked on barefoot
A pool deck has a harder job than a patio: it gets wet, it gets hot, it gets splashed with chlorine and salt, and everyone on it is barefoot. We build for all four.
Why homeowners pick Keen for this
Cool underfoot
Knockdown spray texture — what most people call Kool Deck — is a cement-and-acrylic finish sprayed over the cured slab in light colors that shed heat instead of holding it.
Grip where it counts
Texture and sealer are picked for wet feet. We would rather hand you a deck that grips than one that only photographs well.
Water goes where we send it
Slope, drains and the tie-in to your coping get planned before the pour, not patched afterward, so rain and splash-out run away from the house.
New pool or old
We deck brand-new pools with our sister company Kinetic Pools and resurface tired decks around pools that have been in the ground for twenty years.
Three ways to finish a deck
Same slab underneath. The finish on top is what changes the feel, the temperature and the price.
Knockdown spray texture
The classic light, grippy, cool-to-the-touch pool finish. Sprayed over the cured slab as its own visit.
Stamped deck
Flagstone or ashlar texture around the water. Best with lighter colors so the surface stays cooler.
Stained deck
Warm, variegated color that ties the deck to the house. Sealed with a non-slip additive.
Color
Color Seal, over knockdown texture.
The cool-deck finish is a sprayed knockdown texture sealed in color. The H2Cool line is the one built to stay easier underfoot in the sun — worth knowing before you fall for a shade that only comes in the standard series.
Showing 15 of 15 Color Seal colors.
Tap a color to see which series it comes in.
These are a starting point, not a match. Screens lie about color, and so do printed cards — the chart's own fine print says a card can't be used for a final choice. Cure, weather, sun and the slab underneath all move the finished shade. Pick two or three you like here, and we'll spray real samples on your concrete before anything else happens.
Colors are shown over a sprayed knockdown texture, which is how we apply them on a pool deck. Over a different surface — a smooth slab, an overlay, an older deck — the same color reads differently.
Color Seal is made by Innovative Concrete Technology. Custom color matching is available on the Pro 220 series, and White is offered but not shown here.
How it goes
01
Look at the whole yard
Where the water goes, where the gate is, where you will actually put chairs. The layout decision costs nothing on paper and everything once it is poured.
02
Tear-out or overlay
If the old deck is sound we can resurface it. If it is heaving or badly cracked we tear it out — and we tell you which one you are looking at before you pay us anything.
03
Base, steel and forms
Compacted base, reinforcing steel, forms set to the drainage plan, and expansion joints where the deck meets the house and the coping.
04
Pour and finish
Deck goes in, gets its texture or stamp, and the coping tie-in is detailed by hand.
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Cure, then spray or seal
Knockdown texture and sealer go on after the slab has cured — a separate trip, which is the only way to do it properly.
What you pay, and when
One honest, fixed price, itemized in writing before we start. Half at signing and half at completion — no progress-payment ladder, no change-order surprises unless you ask us to change something. Keen work carries a one-year workmanship warranty; cracking, color variation and efflorescence are inherent to concrete and are excluded, and we say that up front rather than in the fine print.
Recent pool decks work
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Take it with you
Pool Decks care sheet
One page on how to look after it, what will damage it, when to re-seal, and which bits of concrete behaviour are normal rather than a defect. We hand you this on the day; it is here so you can find it again in three years.
Questions
Straight answers, before you call.
Is Kool Deck the same as what you spray?
Kool Deck is a brand name people use for the whole category. What we apply is an acrylic-and-cement knockdown texture sprayed over the cured slab as a separate visit — the same cool, grippy result, using the products we trust here on the coast.
Can you fix my existing deck instead of replacing it?
Often, yes. If the concrete is sound and reasonably flat, an overlay or a fresh knockdown texture makes it look new for a fraction of a tear-out. If the slab is lifting or the cracks are structural, resurfacing just buys you a year — and we will say so.
Do you build the pool too?
Our sister company Kinetic Pools installs fiberglass pools, and Keen pours the deck. Same family, one schedule, no middleman markup between the shell and the concrete.
How soon after the pool goes in can you deck it?
On a fiberglass pool, quickly — that is the whole advantage. Once the shell is set and the plumbing is inspected we can form and pour, which is why dig-to-deck is measured in weeks instead of the months a gunite build takes.
Financing
Financing available.
One short application, 30+ lenders competing, a decision in real time. Projects financed up to $200,000 — deposits and progress payments can also be made by card or bank transfer.
Tell us about your project and we'll come out, measure, and hand you an itemized quote — materials, timeline and total. The price on the paper is the price you pay.
Serving Corpus Christi, Rockport, Ingleside, Kingsville and the Coastal Bend.