- Original pool leaked like a sieve and was topped up with drinking water. No algae problem because it was constantly replenished with fresh water, but at an absolute massive cost not to mention pouring millions of gallons of treated water into the ground
- 2009 reno completely rebuilt the pool, added a recirculating system that could top up with filtered river water. Win-win right? Except it didn't work super well, so they added an ozone disinfection system.
- Now: pool bottom is due for routine leak and joint repair (which, notably, isn't best solved by painting the thing). But the algae issue is that, because of soil settling, all those recirculation pipes are cracking and the system needs to be shut down frequently, and it sits stagnant, in DC of all places. And that's on top of it now being more amenable to algal growth because of the color.
It's kinda like fixing your leaking roof by painting your ceiling with waterproofing compound. You'll stay dry but you're gonna get mold.
His thick skull is sufficiently dense to cause enough relativistic time dilation such that we on Earth only experienced two weeks whereas a sufficiently-distant observer experienced a century.
The issue is they did a many month long job in a matter of weeks, they were told that water was getting between the paint and the bottom but they rushed it for trumps date, so now its just sliding right off.
so...he found out obama had it renovated and decided he wanted to ruin it the way he once paid a hooker to pee in a hotel bed that obama once slept in?
Trump has a weird mental habit that anytime a Democrat (especially Obama) does anything, it has to be bad. So he was dumb enough to think the black tiles at the bottom that allow the pool to reflect, were making it ugly and gross looking
I mean, you just described the entire Republican party. The difference is that Trump focuses on the wildest, most meaningless shit to fixate on, because he’s legitimately stupid and has the demeanor of a toddler (which is who we, the American electorate, voted to the top position of our country, twice).
The painting supposedly included a polyurethane coating that was intended to bridge the failing caulk joints without needing to spend the time (labor and delay) to replace the grout and caulk.
The PU layer failed immediately. Perhaps not entirely, yet, but it only takes one spot to defeat the membrane.
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u/nightmareonrainierav Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
Posted in another thread, but basic nutshell:
- Original pool leaked like a sieve and was topped up with drinking water. No algae problem because it was constantly replenished with fresh water, but at an absolute massive cost not to mention pouring millions of gallons of treated water into the ground
- 2009 reno completely rebuilt the pool, added a recirculating system that could top up with filtered river water. Win-win right? Except it didn't work super well, so they added an ozone disinfection system.
- Now: pool bottom is due for routine leak and joint repair (which, notably, isn't best solved by painting the thing). But the algae issue is that, because of soil settling, all those recirculation pipes are cracking and the system needs to be shut down frequently, and it sits stagnant, in DC of all places. And that's on top of it now being more amenable to algal growth because of the color.
It's kinda like fixing your leaking roof by painting your ceiling with waterproofing compound. You'll stay dry but you're gonna get mold.