Why the paint is peeling off the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool? Experts try to explain. VERBATIM: President Donald Trump ordered the pool’s renovation in April, and that order included painting its floor and walls blue. Yet within weeks of the work’s completion, photographs and videos of floating chunks of a cerulean material that appears to […]
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Why the paint is peeling off the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool? Experts try to explain.
VERBATIM: President Donald Trump ordered the pool’s renovation in April, and that order included painting its floor and walls blue. Yet within weeks of the work’s completion, photographs and videos of floating chunks of a cerulean material that appears to have detached from the pool’s walls have gone viral.
This material is polyurea coating: a fast-curing and durable surface membrane that can seal in water and is often used to coat swimming pools.
David McFayden, CEO of the paint and coating inspection company KTA-Tator, pinning the blame for the floating coating on any one factor would be premature.
Bernie Bennett, Washington.