<story><title>Painting the Eiffel Tower</title><url>https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument/painting-eiffel-tower</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tmountain</author><text>A painting campaign lasts between 18 months and 3 years, and the tower is repainted every 7 years. So, basically it’s being painted upwards of 35% of the time for longer campaigns. That’s a lot of maintenance!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adolph</author><text>They should probably just rebuild it in cor-ten and be done with it.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Weathering_steel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Weathering_steel&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Painting the Eiffel Tower</title><url>https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/the-monument/painting-eiffel-tower</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tmountain</author><text>A painting campaign lasts between 18 months and 3 years, and the tower is repainted every 7 years. So, basically it’s being painted upwards of 35% of the time for longer campaigns. That’s a lot of maintenance!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>p-e-w</author><text>A paint job takes up to 3 years today, yet the &lt;i&gt;entire tower&lt;/i&gt; (including painting) was built in 2 years, 140 years ago?!?</text></comment>