Setting a Pool-Heater Condensate Trench to Daylight Through a Paver Deck

A gas or heat-pump pool heater drips condensate all season. On a sand-set paver deck that drip becomes a lime trail, a soft joint, and a puddle at the nearest slider. PaverForge Hardscapes sleeves a condensate line under the field to a pop-up or to a legal daylight point instead of letting it sheet across the deck.

Deck-first or equipment-first

If the deck is already finished, we lift a narrow run of units, trench in the sleeve, and relay the same stones. If the deck is new, the sleeve goes in before bedding sand so we are not cutting a finished herringbone. Either way the line stays below the two-percent pitch and does not poke a pipe through a soldier course where someone will kick it.

• Rigid sleeve under the field; no thin tubing laid on top of bedding sand.

• Daylight to a pop-up in a bed or to an approved drain — not into the pool skimmer.

• Keep the equipment pad isolated from the deck field with a bond-breaker so heater vibration does not telegraph lippage.

• Photograph the sleeve before the units go back so the next equipment swap does not require a treasure hunt.

This is a small scope with a large payoff on salt-cell pools in St. Pete Beach, Gulfport, and the beach towns. Call 727-490-9798 and send a photo of the heater pad and the nearest low edge.