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Yes! The grandstand needs attention. Also, it's more than powerwashing, during the Dooley era we had a solid sealer or waterproofing coating applied to the grandstand. That stuff is flaking or coming off making the stadium look bad. The concrete is exposed, that is why during rainy games it looks bad. The exposed concrete looks darker when wet. It's not mildew.Originally Posted by Tech52
Oklahoma in 2018 applied a waterproofing coating to a section of their stadium. It looks like the below.
Ummm ... no. Pressure washing bricks strips off the fire-skin and creates millions of tiny pits and crevasses that moisture can penetrate. After a couple of freeze-thaw cycles, the masonry will start to chip and fail. This creates even more and larger spaces for moisture to infiltrate, accelerating the process.
Nothing says "I have no idea what I'm doing" quite like "Let's powerwash these bricks!"
(Or, alternately .... "I'm a Louisiana public official who promised my buddy I would buy a bunch of his bricks, but first I need to create a need for them.")
I didn’t know that. Seems important.
1379 "blue" chairbacks
Looks so vacant beyond the center and right field wall. I remember when there was a thick stand of pine trees back there.
Not sure if you are serious. The RR took most of them out before the tornado got the rest
A far cry from the "approximately 2,500" capacity touted when the project was revealed. Totally expected.
For comparison that is basically the same or slightly less than what the old grandstand could hold with the mix of chairbacks and benchbacks. If the original 2005 chairback project would have been completed to the top of the stadium, there would have been 1,272 chairback seats.
Our admin doesn’t want that many season ticket relationships to have to manage anyway.
Valid point. But I’d have to assume in new construction with new brick, they were just being cleaned of simple dirt from construction.
Of course I'm serious! I am talking about back in the 1970's into the early '80's. It was a green wall of trees...at one time.
Well there are no more trees, nothing we can do about it. The new backdrop is the view of Memorial Gym and new dorms constructed on Tech drive.
Wasn’t talking about the bricks. Most of that is new anyway.
We were about talking about a brick wall (cf. post #762). You said do the Joe next.
If you meant pressure wash the concrete structure and metal seats, then yeah. That'd be great.
https://www.facebook.com/LATech/videos/162247372072461
This video was just posted. At the .37 second mark where is this scoreboard?
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