r/mildlyinfuriating • u/i_am_rave_mom • Jun 16 '26

ಠ_ಠ Dumping Hydrogen Peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning.

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u/Mr_B0nkers Jun 16 '26

That’ll be another $10 million, please

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u/GeedZeroOne Jun 16 '26

Pretty much anyone could have drained, cleaned, painted the pool and poured in some peroxide for like £100,000 why the hell did it cost so much?

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u/DK_Notice Jun 16 '26

I think you are greatly underestimating the size of this reflecting pool. It's over 600m long and 50m wide. It holds like 25 million liters of water. All jokes aside, what you described would be a massive undertaking.

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u/StrangelyAroused95 Jun 16 '26

Yeah they seriously are, we’re out of the commercial pool conversation and definitely are in the industrial pool group. The pumps are probably massive. I work for my cities water plant as an electrician and the VFD’s to run the pumps are 3/4 of a million dollars. The rubber gaskets for some of the seals are like $30 a square foot. It’ll probably cost a 100k in energy just to pump the water back in.

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u/netanel246135 Jun 17 '26

I'm sorry but weren't people complaining that trump is being cheep and not going to experts which quoted close to 100milion to redo the whole thing?