Several months before blue strips started floating to the surface of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a company involved in its last renovation more than 15 years ago was approached with an opportunity to do this remodel as well. But the company said no.
Specifically, it balked at two requirements – the Trump administration wanted it done by July 4, and the pool bottom had to be blue, according to two employees with the New Jersey-based Sika Corporation, which provided the concrete construction and sealing products for a 2010 renovation project to the Reflecting Pool.
According to the two employees, who spoke to CNN on the condition they not be identified, both demands made the job “unfeasible.”
the time delay made it unfeasible because to paint something - even if it's polyurethane based or epoxy based- you have to dry it out first. otherwise the moisture does bad things. (aka, causes it to not adhere properly.)(aka causes it to flake off.)
It's rather like painting over wet drywall mud.
The "it must be blue" because blue absorbs more light than white- and that caused the massive algae bloom.
But Trump is a moron who can't comprehend just how fucking stupid he is, or that he's not the smartest person in the room; so of course he gave it to his buddy who was happy to do it for a "small" bonus, even though that guy is at least as stupid as Trump is.
Online commentators have also speculated that the bottom of the pool may have been affected by the presence of heavy equipment and trucks — and a presidential motorcade that drove through at one point — shortly after the coating was applied.
Ravi Kurani, President of Standard Water Corp, an industrial technology company, told CNN he would never recommend driving cars out onto a pool surface, especially when renovations are being done.
“It’s like you’re putting flooring on your kitchen floor and then you’re take a really heavy tractor on top of it – it’s going to mess it up a little bit.”
could further enflame mounting criticism that the project was rushed and potentially improperly completed.
Potentially?
We were promised a result that "will last for at least 50 years" and "if you had a knife, you couldn't even cut it" that didn't make it a month. This situation is my current litmus test to determine if I'm interacting with a propaganda bot or not. This job being improperly completed is potentially the most certain fact in the news today.
Sika Corp. did not reply to CNN’s request for comment.
They (wisely) turned down the job, so why would they comment now? Why did CNN even ask? I’m sure that whoever made the ultimate decision to pass on Trump’s little fiasco is smiling.
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