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Timberlake Condominiums Pool Deck,
Modesto, Calif.
Cracks like this one in the existing pool
deck were repaired and old brick-patterned
concrete fi lled in and leveled to provide a new
bonding profi le for the overlay.
Project Profi le
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by Loretta Hall
The swimming-pool courtyard
should have been an aesthetic
focal point for the upscale gated
condo community. But the old pool
deck was scarred with cracks, and
when decorative planters leaked and
overfl owed from rain, mud ran across
the deck and sullied the pool.
Still, more than 200 condo owners
at the Timberlake Condominiums in
Modesto, Calif., dreaded the expense
and disruption of ripping out the 6,500square-foot
deck and rebuilding it.
Then they talked to Julio A.
Hallack.
Hallack, president and CEO of
Concrete by Hallack in Turlock, Calif.,
proposed repairing and resurfacing
Photos courtesy of Concrete by Hallack
the existing deck with a stamped and
stained concrete overlay. For all but
one week of the four-month project,
he agreed to have his staff of eight
professionals work only from 6 o’clock
in the morning until noon so the
residents could use the pool during the
afternoons and evenings. And, Hallack
says, “I think we saved them about
$70,000 or more by not jackhammering
the whole thing.”
Resurfacing the 6,500-squarefoot
pool deck with a stamped overlay
saved time and money — and did it
beautifully.
Before even starting to work on
the concrete itself, Hallack did some
preparatory work. “We installed a couple