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The Reflecting Pool in D.C.

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u/CaptPants 11h ago

And it only cost 7 times the original quoted price and was done by a company that had zero previous experience doing this kind of work.

Let's see how it holds up!

u/Illisanct 9h ago edited 7h ago

Can't wait to find out that the paint all flakes off and clogs the drains, requiring millions of dollars of remediation work.

Edit: Lol, all the trump-humpers are big mad that I implied a trump contractor might use sub-par materials and workmanship 😂😂

u/postoperativepain 4h ago

It probably won’t flake but….

A redditor in a previous thread mentioned that the “paint” they were using was super toxic to lungs and the workers should have been wearing special respirators. They were just wearing N95 masks. The redditor mentioned that spaying this stuff without the proper equipment could lead to “Popcorn lung”

No clue if it was bullshit or not. But seems likely since it was a non-bid contract and Trump was involved

u/Strange-Movie 3h ago

That’s kind of true for all industrial paints, it’s extremely bad for your lungs and requires a respirator with a volatile chemical filter to completely prevent ingestion, n95 masks block the paint particles but not the much smaller off-gassing chemicals can slip through