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Surfside, florida just before it chanced las ed collapsed last week. a pool contractor talking about the nightmare he fund tound thi basement's building. >> i walked through the pool area, didn't notice anything particularly alarming. he was being escorted by a building employee who then walked him downstairs to the garage below and that is where he told us that he saw tdeep standing water that he found concerning. and then he was led to the south side under the pool area, still in the garage, too where the pool equipment room was. and inside that room, he saw major concrete spalling, exposed ...

The collapse. hindsight here, should the alarm bells have rung much more urgently? >> i think so. it's been several years and reading through the report, there was evidence of the concrete spalling, cracking and corrosion on the rebars and what's really concerning is it was happening in the basement, extend beyond the footprint of the building so above the basement is exterior the outside and the report said there was no slope so the water would pond until it evaporated and calcium cash night in the concrete and attempts to repair cracks you but the report also stated there was further crackin...

It's been several years since that report came out, and reading through the report, there was evidence of the concrete spalling, cracking and corrosion on the rebars and what's really concerning is it was happening in the basement, the basement covers the whole block, so it extends beyond the footprint of the building. so above the basement is exterior, the outside and the report said there was no slope to the slab so it was ponding water. so the water would stay on there until it evaporated, and there was a lot of calcium carbonite in the contreat and attempts to repair cracks but the report ...