....As a DC9 union painter with 30+ years in coatings, I'm looking at the failure not a conspiracy theory. When a coatin

[riversedge]

I recall years ago when my mom had her house repainted. It took weeks with the scraping, the coatings to dry, the windows, --and Finally the paint!! ect etc etc. It is not a rush job.


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As a DC9 union painter with 30+ years in coatings, I’m looking at the failure not a conspiracy theory.
When a coating is lifting off in large sheets like this, that points to an adhesion failure: improper surface preparation, contamination left behind, the wrong coating system, poor recoat timing, or water introduced before the system fully cured.

A quality two-part epoxy system can perform well but the product is only as good as the prep and application. The substrate has to be properly profiled/cleaned, the specified primer or first coat applied correctly, recoat windows followed, and the full system allowed to cure before being put back into service.

That is not “vandals.” That is a coating failure that deserves a real independent inspection and an explanation of exactly what system was specified and how it was applied.

#Coatings #Epoxy #SurfacePreparation #PaintFailure #UnionPainter

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[EYESORE 9001]

1. No-bid contracts with hack-leg contractors

There’s your root cause.

[maxsolomon]

2. NO, IT'S VANDALS!

Why do DC9 Union Painters hate America?

[Bluetus]

11. I hate those DC9 union painters :)

(Just kidding)

[RockRaven]

3. It was a rush job to meet his dumb birthday deadline. Of course they fucked it up!

The reflecting pool is ~350,000 square feet. It is absurdly large. And they had an arbitrary and unnecessary deadline.

That ego-driven deadline should be getting a lot more scrutiny by the MSM. That deadline is the most likely "why" rather than flat out incompetence or laziness or corruption -- which are all present to some degree surely. But the root cause of the failure is probably the completely avoidable artificial time constraint. They didn't do what was right, they did what would immediately please the Orange Maniac, with predictable results.

[Bluetus]

10. Absolutely. And that concrete was saturated with water.

Maybe there are coatings that can work on water-saturated concrete, but I would have thought some time would have been needed to lower the moisture in the concrete. That might have been a good time to renovate or update the filtration system.

[malaise]

4. But but but

He’s an expert at everything - NOT

[Kablooie]

5. Do a lot of innocent people may be anrrested over this.

But none of them will be connected to Trumps no bid contractor that screwed up.

[The Roux Comes First]

6. A Person as Truly Stupid and Self-serving as This So-called President

Has no business trying to hire a fly-by-night contractor without competitive bidding and a few at-least modestly-intelligent project manager types with some actual experience in the real world to protect him from his own idiocy. He's already demonstrated repeatedly that he can bankrupt a casino, FGS!

[Nelg]

7. Union labor

If the contract was not put out for bid was union labor used if not was prevailing wage paid

[dave99]

9. HELL NO ! Trump never uses UNIONs , that piece of ---- would not pay

[patphil]

8. So now we have a do-over on the reflecting pool. I bet the price will be at least 2-3X what it was the first time.

Why do I expect the do-over to be just another shit show?