I Hope This Doesn't Spread About The Pool Paint

[gab13by13]

People are saying that the product they used to paint the reflecting pool was a paint designed for truck bed liners.

Last I checked truck beds are made of metal and the bottom of the pool isn't.

[edhopper]

1. It is for water pipes and water tanks

It's not for pools, and though it can be used for concrete, the surface needs a lot more preparation than what they did.

[gab13by13]

2. I did my concrete garage floor

and I had to prep the concrete with muriatic acid first. I let the acid work for 15-20 minutes then flushed it all out with water and made sure everything was dry before painting.

[edhopper]

3. The drying is very important

if there is water under the paint, it will peel right off.

[TexasBushwhacker]

6. And outdoors, it's very hard to have such a large surface

Get 100% dry. It was an OVERPRICED botched job, plain and simple.

[Captain Zero]

4. And Trump drove a convoy of SUVs on it

Shortly after the lining was installed.
We really need that video.
The pictures are out there in lots of places.
We need the video too.
On one of his outings in DC HE AND HIS SECRET SERVICE drove a convoy of SUVs through the work in progress on the pool, before it was refilled with water.

[jonstl08]

7. OMG

I have seen the picture of this but thought they were fake. Just researched it and it is true. What were they thinking. No wonder there are major issues with it

[Blue Owl]

8. Kashyap Pramod Patel and Kid Rock were probably in tow, slamming Bud Lites

Shrieking out the windows “USA! USA! USA!”

[malaise]

11. Here

[Lovie777]

5. If true, the company was just as incompetent unqualified as the present president................

and current administration while the republican party looked away.

[GiqueCee]

9. Everything this simple-minded skidmark...

... has done to the Reflecting Pool has contributed to the inevitable failure of the project.

After it was drained, they gave it nowhere near enough time to dry out before applying the appropriate primer, and there's no guarantee that they even took the time to do that properly. That careless oversight alone doomed this fiasco to failure.

Having painted over concrete that still retained moisture, they proceeded to drive heavy vehicles over it to further weaken the bond in an infantile display of raw ego.

They refilled the Pool WAY too soon for the paint to have thoroughly cured and bonded.

The dark blue paint was a stupid error that the contractor should have warned Trump about the instant it was suggested. But Trump knows more about painting pools than anyone, right? With ideal conditions served up on a gold-painted platter, the algae bloomed in record time.

Trump is a malignant narcissist and a pathological liar, so there wasn't the remotest chance in hell that he would ever admit his cascade of ego-driven mistakes. He's also a textbook psychopath, so he had zero compunction over arresting a casual observer and blaming him for a monumental fuck-up that was Trump's own fault from the git-go.

IF this case ever makes it to court, Trump's band of boot-licking strip mall lawyers will get their asses handed to them, while Trump screeches about "rigged trials", or whatever the fuck asinine excuse come to his Adderall-polluted mind.

What did we do to deserve this mutant asshole, anyway?

[jonstl08]

10. Pool experts

Pool experts have been saying what you posted. Trump wanted it done before the July 4th and these experts said it was at least a 2-3 month job in order for the surface to drive. The fact they drove on it makes zero sense.

[jmowreader]

12. That's not true, but I can see where they came up with this

The coating was made by Rhino Linings, who started out just making truck bed liners but branched into a manufacturer of all sorts of polyurethane coatings for many different functions. The coating in question is made for concrete containers that hold water, like water tanks and concrete water pipe. If there's a "right stuff" to paint a cherished national treasure a color it isn't supposed to be to please the world's oldest two-year-old, this is it.

Something else that I thought about but decided not to mention when I posted why this coating is failing: the "suggested applications" list on the Technical Data Sheet describes use cases that are completely enclosed - the insides of pipes and the insides of concrete tanks. "Could the ultraviolet light in sunlight cause this to fail?" It's possible, but the coating system on the Reflecting Pool didn't survive a week; the only things that react to UV light that damned fast are specifically made to react to UV that fast, like some wide-format inks, nail polishes and polymers.