How generous of you to assume they wouldn’t simply be shot dead in the street.
panda_abyss 45 points 3 days ago
They really did a shit job on that
foodandart 57 points 3 days ago
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.
Track_Shovel 8 points 3 days ago
I bet the hydrogen peroxide they added to the water certainly didn't help much either
foodandart 3 points 3 days ago
That did cross my mind as well. Could be a possibility. Dunno.
Catalyst_A 4 points 3 days ago
Sounds like they could have just thrown you a $100k.
foodandart 23 points 3 days ago
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..
deadbeef79000 26 points 3 days ago
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.
terranoid 15 points 3 days ago
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.
flambonkscious 1 point 3 days ago
That sounds just like New Zealand's current government!
Gerudo 5 points 3 days ago
When I was putting in flooring over a concrete slab, they warned about high humidity absorbing into it like a sponge. I can only imagine what magnitude more of a problem that would be for submerged concrete/stone.
RoidingOldMan 2 points 3 days ago
Trump specifically bragged about both sand blasting and pebble blasting, though I have no idea if that's standard procedure.
dai 3 points 3 days ago
From a laymans perspective, seems like that's to clear off debris / surface grime and grit. Adequate cleanup would need to happen ontop of the surface prep.
It however would do fuck all about the water that's soaked past the surface and much deeper into the stone. NFI how long that would take.
For perspective I've spray painted some things, laid some bricks, grouted' some outlets into walls and have no career or formal education in those fields.
Track_Shovel 7 points 3 days ago
Oh man, I would have sold my SNES to eat a paint chip that size as a kid
HootinNHollerin 1 point 3 days ago
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
avidamoeba 3 points 3 days ago
Context for others out of the loop.
MrFlibble4747 1 point 2 days ago
How about calculating the Trumpster Gangs potential earnings over the past few months on the stock market rise and fall manipulations.
THAT will be a BIG number!
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