Metallic Epoxy Flooring FAIL | Complete Breakdown | Don’t Make This Mistake!

oh my [Music] gosh in my last video we tested a metallic epoxy floor diy kit to see just how diy friendly it really was and this is the breakdown of the major fail we had so check that video out to see what it really looks like when you have no experience from start to finish and to see how we fix this mistake a link will be at the end of this video and in the description so let's break down this costly fail and go back to the very moment when this mistake was made [Music] more dolphin at the end of this video we'll talk in a little more detail about what happened but basically we made a last-minute call and mixed the accent colors a bit too soon getting everything ready and coordinating the mixing and the pouring it's probably the most difficult part it's more difficult than putting the floor on there's a lot of things to consider and you've got a short amount of time to do it jason and i both have a ton of experience in about every construction trade but not epoxy and that showed now i've coated hundreds of hardwood floors with a t-bar which is basically a padded squeegee so i was hoping that this skill might translate almost immediately i realized it didn't if anything it probably actually hurt me i instinctively avoided you know stepping on the epoxy as if i were coating a hardwood floor the way it spreads is pretty unique and at the beginning it seems like there's no way you're gonna have enough and it's gonna dry before you even get close to being done so if you're doing this for the first time be prepared that the way it looks and the ease of spreading that everyone demonstrates it doesn't exist when it's the first time you've done it it's stuff pulls it's thick it somehow spreads far beyond what it looks like it should be able to spread so just be patient be prepared for the panic it's unavoidable i think but once you get about halfway done you start to realize how it works and then you start to be a little more confident we probably should have practiced with the spike shoes i've never worn them before and never had to um and to make it worse they started falling apart and dropping nuts all over the floor so that just added to the chaos to the panic in my mind it took us a little bit to figure out even what was happening and where these nuts were coming from huh there's first head shot [Music] we need to make sure that those are tight [Music] oh my gosh [Music] now before we continue i want to defend myself a little bit here um all the smiling and and stuff i do towards jason when this tragedy is happening it can be taken the wrong way but you should just know that i'm a i'm a very optimistic person probably you know to a fault so when things go wrong you know i'm i'm ready to look on the bright side almost instantly and to be fair jason has a lot more at stake than i do here he's trying to get this space ready for his wife it's going to be her salon so here i am reacting to the news that everything we've been doing has basically failed but after a brief you know walk over to this corner i'm ready to laugh about it but then i realized that you know jason isn't there yet so because my positive attitude you know could be misunderstood you know i quickly hide it from him but i still want him to feel better and get to the laugh about it point so i spend the next several minutes telling him all of the reasons why it's not actually a bad thing and it could be a positive thing and then i remember how much he loves to dance so i turn on his favorite song and his dancing lights and i just let him dance it out for a while [Music] all right so let's let's talk about what happened i'm ready you wanna start from the beginning um all the way from the beginning well there we were um scrambling to get everything together and you know being our first time you watch a lot of videos we take all the advice we can one of the things that we love about spartan is that they take the time to to talk to you to teach you brian was always on the phone willing to answer any questions and guide me through stuff but there's this thing called compounding heat that we we didn't consider yes and it it it ended up being about a 900 mistake but it's fixable just by starting over um we gonna do i mean it sucks um luckily our our base coat our our main uh base laid out nicely and we did learn and get a little confidence from that that we can do this the second time around um but yeah we kept hearing and something that kept standing out to me was that you have about a 45 minute working time with the material so you don't need to stress out well that's true when you're working with the material yeah uh you can't leave it in the in the container like it's you gotta mix it you gotta pour it yeah so we had uh we mixed all of our uh our our main base our pearl and then right as we were done with that we mixed our highlights and started pouring our pearl on the floor and um i would say within about five minutes and you'll see in the video it's kind of you could tell it looks harder to spread than we both anticipated because it even the pearl had already set up it was still working but we had let it sit maybe five minutes max the pearl anyway this stuff you know it was probably 10 minutes and then i mean just that's what we got yeah and it was it was piping hot almost smoking to the touch and solid as a rock in 10 minutes so all of our highlights right here it will make a nice uh nice weight for something man yeah a bookend we got to save it but before we start this time we're going to make sure that uh apparently these spikes they don't come pre-tightened so you need to go around and make sure you got your nuts tightened before you do anything like this always check your nuts i just lost one right now so we're sizing these up checking our nuts and we are going to be prepared this time we're experienced epoxy guys now so we're not gonna make the same beginner mistakes hopefully so let's let's see how it turns out we got our new stuff in the good thing about uh spartan was when it happened it was what like five or six in the evening on friday night and you called i mean he's he's an owner and he's like one of the owners yeah within five minutes he calls back from a boat fishing in the mangroves off the coast of florida just to help us out and let us let us know what we did wrong and he uh they're pretty quick about shipping another round out to us so i will say that's a positive thing but um we're gonna give it another go and try not to let that happen again wishes luck you

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Length: 9min 11sec (551 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 16 2022