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MineralMan

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13. The coating on the bottom of the pool is a polyurea coating.

Tue Jun 23, 2026, 10:37 AM

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It bonds with the concrete, if things are properly prepared. So, it can't be peeled up.

Now, I doubt that the preparation for the coating was done properly. Before you apply the coating, the surface of the concrete has to be totally dry. If it's not, the coating will not bond well.

Further, if you try to use that stuff on concrete that gets damp from water seeping upwards, the bond will be broken and it will peel off.

There are a number of reasons for the coating to fail, and I suspect it just failed for one of those reasons. The chemicals poured into the water didn't help, either.

It was just a shoddy job, done poorly, and probably with a kickback to some shell corporation by the contractor. I mean, Trump doesn't do anything for free, as he has proven many times.

The coating was bound to fail. So, it did. The entire project was ill-conceived and poorly done.

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