Context for others out of the loop.
The Lincoln memorial is apparently 32000m2 i estimate thats about 0.25m2 so that represents very roughly 100dollars of tax payer money.
Gonna have to add in the cost to fix it all too, to be fair. Due to corruption I’d bet even more than double
OP is going to be sent to an ICE camp for removing an artifact from a federal park.
How generous of you to assume they wouldn’t simply be shot dead in the street.
PIC can’t make a whole lotta money off a deader, gotta have a few live ones get through for profiteering and torture
It’d frame that and hang it on my wall.
It’d make for a great conversation piece when your conservative family come to visit.
They really did a shit job on that
The secret ingredient is corruption.
Yaah.
When any kind of epoxy “water barrier” refuses to stick to stone or concrete (not certain what the reflecting pool is made of) the main culprit is that the substrate is not thoroughly dry - and if it was concrete it would need to take at least a week to fully dry - and then the epoxy resin itself needs at least 4 days to cure properly.
My bet is that it wasn’t a real epoxy resin so much as a “water resistant” heavy resin body block filler (which is made for basement and brick walls) that was slapped on in a hit-and-run, sketchy as fuck, con job on the taxpayers.
The texture sure looks like it and that stuff absolutely can be tinted to any shade.
Sause: 46 years as an industrial painter.
I bet the hydrogen peroxide they added to the water certainly didn’t help much either
That did cross my mind as well. Could be a possibility. Dunno.
Sounds like they could have just thrown you a $100k.
100k wouldn’t buy the resin needed.
That pool is what… 2030 ft. x 175 ft. with a side-wall depth of 1.5 feet…
Hmm. Let’s math this… 2030 X 175 = 355,350 is the square footage of the bottom (more or less - as the bottom actually drops to 30 inches in the middle - it’s tapered down at the center so I’d add 2% on that as the bottom is not flat across… so that would be an extra 6700 sq. ft. or so) and the sides… 2030 x 2 x 1.5 = 6090 sq. ft… and 175 x 2 x 1.5 = 525 sq. ft.
Tally all the totals: 355,350 + 6700 + 6090 + 525 = 368,665 sq. ft. per coat and to do it right, you’d need at least 2 coats, which doubles that tally to 737,330 sq. ft.
Depending on the actual epoxy resin coating used, you’re looking at 80 to 150 sq. ft. coverage per gallon. Average price per gallon at this time is, around 150 bucks per (for the budget shit, the spendy stuff goes upwards of 300 bucks a gallon)…
So average that coverage to 115 sq. ft per gallon (the primer coat uses more, the topcoat less) and divide 737,330 by it, which = 6,411.56 gallons… and multiply by the 150 bucks per… comes out to $961,734 just for the resin.
Never mind the application tools and the cleanup and disposal costs for the rags, empties and tyvek suits - OR - the labor.
That’s a big fucking job but not 14 million dollars big, when the work fails to last inside of a week. Homeboy used something super cheap and I’ll bet has already skipped town…
Are chunks of paint just floating to the surface now? Or are people going in there and peeling it off?
I suspect that poorly applied surfacing, followed by the vigorous scrubbing needed to make up for the ineffective chemical treatment for algae blooms resulted in this.
Yes and also other people have pointed out that the surface wasn’t fully dry before they started painting it, which is a recipe for failure.
YES
I’m not an expert, but the first thing I said when I saw this shitshow begin, was that there was no surface prep.
Oh man, I would have sold my SNES to eat a paint chip that size as a kid
It’s latex, kid-you may as well chew on a condom…
Trump is like a super shitty contractor who comes in and talks shit about the last guys’ job and keeps saying that they fucked everything up and installed the plumbing wrong, then when they do dumb shit to “fix it” and end up flooding your basement, they keep blaming the last guy and try to charge you extra for the “amazing” work they’re doing.
That sounds just like New Zealand’s current government!
