I Hope This Doesn't Spread About The Pool Paint

[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.