A commercial pool contractor indicated where he saw serious corrosion in the Champlain Towers South pool equipment room in a photo he took two days before the building collapsed. COURTESY
Posted on 06/28/2021 6:58:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The contractor visited the condo building last week to put together a bid for a cosmetic restoration of the pool as well as to price out new pool equipment — a small piece of the multimillion-dollar restoration project that just was getting underway at the 40-year-old building.
In the pool equipment room, located on the south side of the underground garage, the contractor saw another problem — exposed and corroding rebar in the concrete slab overhead. He snapped some pictures and sent them to his supervisor along with a note expressing concern that the job might be a bit more complicated than expected. He worried they would have to remove pool pipes to allow concrete restoration experts access to repair the slabs.
The building caved in two days later, before they had time to complete their bid.
A commercial pool contractor indicated where he saw serious corrosion in the Champlain Towers South pool equipment room in a photo he took two days before the building collapsed. COURTESY
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The location of the deep pool of standing water and cracked concrete and corroded rebar in the garage of Champlain Towers South condo, as pointed out by a pool contractor who toured the property two days before the collapse. EDUARDO ALVAREZ
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Good question. Unfortunately, at this point the only person the left is going after is DeSantis. I’m sure they’re chomping at the bit to do ANYTHING to keep him from running in 2024, with or without Trump.
Mostly the "Statees".
And that my job did not require me to go back to that foriegn land.
Looks like the pool is still there ...
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That’s a lot of stretching on their part. DeSantis being held liable? Never let a crisis go to waste right? It’s going to be interesting watching the dust settle on this.
I agree. I don’t know the ins and outs of inspections but this is bad.
What’s even worse is Biden et al will use this to justify federal infrastructure and higher taxes when this is entirely a local fiasco.
Anyone wondering what the pool rooms in the sister buildings look like? There are supposedly more buildings just like this one.
Building should have been immediately evacuated with damage like that. I’ve lived in Condos...the garage likely is owned by ALL owners (common area)...
Somewhat unbelievably, per FL state law, condominiums in this category only require a structural inspection every 40-years...
https://www.fox13news.com/video/948111
...this building was currently in the process of that inspection, which apparently can take a year to complete.
More problematically, the association apparently was aware of significant structural problems from 2018 and did nothing to remediate those problems.
“Looks like the pool is still there ...”
Yes, There has been lots of talk about the pool since the collapse, but it is quite far from where the damage is. I’m no engineer, but to me it seems hard for it to be the source of the problem.
There were probably two pools. Most condos have indoor and outdoor pools.
“Dade County will be forced to redo its building inspection process which will become adopted by all the Fl counties .”
Yep. The results of this will be many inspections leading to many expensive repairs. If you own an older condo in Florida expect your bills to go up.
Better than antisemitic contractors.
I read the building is owned by a company and the actual living space is owned by the residents.
All those skyscraper apartments in big city work the same way. A company owns the actual building and the residents own just the interior space.
“If you own an older condo in Florida expect your bills to go up.’
And your property values to go into free fall for several years.
I must agree with BenLurkin.
I don’t see what a person’s religion has to do with anything.
As the building shattered the power circuits broke and shorted. I saw the video. The flashes happened in a number of places. It was a sickening thing to see. No explanation was necessary.
Later the the video’s of the inside looked like hail falling as the ceilings began to shed particles before the collapse.
Between the lawsuits, blame, recriminations, new inspections, and a ghastly process of farming out the repairs of the entire area to the lowest bidder, they may never recover from what happened. Building on the edge of any waterline is a dicey proposition, at best. The ocean is very unforgiving. I like it as much as the next person, but it’s a predator even in the most benign of settings. Give me a cabin on a mountaintop. I’d rather deal with the bears.
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