Abstract: A system for use in swimming pool construction for temporarily holding a rounded coping to a wall form during pouring of concrete, making the coping a permanent part of the swimming pool but permitting quick removal of the wall form, includes, at intervals, a lag screw rotatably mounted on the top of the wall form in position for the threaded pointed end of the lag screw to engage a vinyl liner slot in the coping, and when rotated to draw the coping against the wall form. To prevent the screw from "walking" in the slot when rotated and to assure coping level, an even coping line and straight wall construction, a coping alignment track on the wall form has a lateral protrusion fitted into the vinyl liner slot and length extending longitudinally of the coping from one lag screw to the next.

Abstract: A swimming pool deck is disclosed for construction with new swimming pool installations and with existing swimming pools. A concrete base is poured around the exterior wall of the swimming pool at or below the frost line and a plurality of vertical hollow columns are spaced in the concrete base. A plurality of X-shaped braces are spaced in the concrete base to join together connecting vertical walls which are positioned next to the exterior pool wall. Horizontal support rods extend from the vertical walls to the hollow columns. The area around the pool is back-filled to the proper level and reinforcing grates are connected to the horizontal support rods. A concrete deck is poured with some of the concrete filling the hollow columns.The swimming pool deck fabrication method and apparatus of the invention employs straight-forward sequence of frame and pouring form erection without requiring skilled labor for any precisely dimensional excavation, leveling or the like.