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.
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…
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…