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[Music]
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thank you
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okay guys we are live
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so let me double check that we have the
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sound once again
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should be good to go
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all right
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I think we're good thanks for letting me
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know about the sound we should be all
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set and good to go here so let me go
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back and talk about what I got cut off
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on because I was waiting for the the
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sound to get back in
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all right so what we're working on here
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is we have our
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uh three pieces of flooring in so this
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is all dried and in from last night
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uh one question I wanted to answer from
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a viewer had to do with why we were
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covering up the screw holes with epoxy
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in case we needed to access them again
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in the future
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so we don't need to access them again
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ever when we do a Florence install it is
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permanent this will be here forever
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unless customer wants to rip it out and
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do something different
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so the adhesives that we use like the
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Marine adhesive to attach the foam to
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the floor
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the foam to the wood and then next we're
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going to be attaching
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with a special epoxy a two-part epoxy
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from lawn seal so that's the company
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right here that I was showing you guys
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just a second ago
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this company
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so these products
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specifically this one this is the one
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that we're using today
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so we're installing this product
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and no affiliation with the company just
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we really like the product that is going
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in the floor so what we're doing by
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covering up the screw heads and putting
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epoxy on these transition gaps is one we
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want to make sure that we have a nice
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smooth transition and we don't have a
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like a bump in the material
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because that little bump will make like
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a little air gap because the floor needs
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to be super flat
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we'll be using a trowel to trowel on the
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epoxy for the epoxy to adhere to bare
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wood well we're going to need to use a
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product right here which is called a
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bonding primer
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so this right here uh it's a waterborne
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bonding primer and it's a urethane
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acrylic and so this is specifically
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made to take wood or there's other
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products on here
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for example
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let's see here
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interior exterior surfaces including PVC
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vinyl plastic glass tile glaze block
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glossy paints
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uh
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powder coating sodium fiberglass
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galvanized materials
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ideal for plaster drywall and wood
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substrates
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and Commercial institutional and
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residential applications
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oh
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so we put this on the floor that allows
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our epoxy to hear very well
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and once we do that we will take our
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floor which is that material that I just
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showed you
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so I took the top of it off so you guys
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could see
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see it a little bit better
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here's our material
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and we tried the epoxy on because it's
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almost like like almost like a carpet
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it's a paper
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backed material
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and that allows it to absorb onto the
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uh material itself
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uh it's almost like a fabric I guess you
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would say
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but that holds that holds the floor down
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this floor is used in all kinds of
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environments it's used in
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specifically the Marine industry so when
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we go to look up this product online
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you'll see we go to lawn Seal's website
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and if we scroll down at the bottom
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well actually we'll go to product let's
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see here
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I want to go to
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we'll go to Marine
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click learn more
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and they've got music playing
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anyway you click on marine and you'll go
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to
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find the product and the product we're
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using is long coin one
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this product is used in all kinds of
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different scenarios so this is on a boat
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have it like some engineering facility
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right here
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trains
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science lab
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actually I think that's a photo lab
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um
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and then this one is just like you know
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if you want to get more designer
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different colors
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and it's made for extremely high traffic
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areas
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commercial use
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as well as
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these industries so we have
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zoom in here
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it's a corporate Fitness retail exterior
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decking Marine specialty Vehicles so
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it's extremely resilient
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resilience and high traffic Interiors
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for decades
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yeah so that's what we're using this
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product
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so we're just prepping our floor this
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final pretty much the final step of our
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flooring install
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so once we paint this on and we let it
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dry
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we're going to unroll the lawn sill and
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then we're going to put it down
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we're going to since we have these uh
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covers down here at the end
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so
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these uh kind of
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decorative trim pieces but they're also
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made to take abuse
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so it's powder coated Steel
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and it's going to cap off our end
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and we purchased this from AVC rig
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there's no affiliation there this is
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just a good product
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so this is going to go right here on the
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back of the cap
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when we get finished with everything
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and so once when we do get finished
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what we're going to do
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actually let me back up
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since this cover is going to go here so
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let me take a marker
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so we'll just mark this
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okay
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so when I take this off you'll see that
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there's that line
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that line is going to be hidden
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and then what we're going to do is we
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take the center
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line the center line of the van
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which is let's just say it's right about
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right there
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and we're going to unroll the lawn sill
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flooring
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and roll it all the way back it's
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actually going to hang off a little bit
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we got 12 feet and we only need
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I think 11
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actually I will confirm that
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so you guys know exactly how long this
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floor is
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it's the point of what we do here at the
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channel
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let's see if I can find my my good tape
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measure everybody has a good tape
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measure right
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Stanley makes a tape measure called fat
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Max
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it's the only tape measure to get
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because it extends all the way out nice
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and easy
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let's see if we got our
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people back here on the channel
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all right
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so our floor is 11
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feet
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six and a quarter inches at its longest
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point
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at its widest point
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all right I'm guessing 63. let's see how
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good I am with my memory
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up 67 and a half
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actually
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let's get super technical here
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this is a van from the adventure wagon
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frame to frame is 69 the floor is 68. so
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we come back a half inch on each side
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all right
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so let's put this down
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dries we trowel out our lawn still
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because the trowel is important because
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there's a specific
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specified thickness of all the ridges
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kind of like doing tile
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so you need to specifically have a
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certain height so that when you roll the
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lawn seal on
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you don't have these uh like bubbles
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within the material as you can imagine
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if you put epoxy down it kind of runs
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and moves so you don't want a big glob
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of it in one area where you heavily
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trailed and then minimally trout in
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another area
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the final step is you need to rent a 100
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pound roller from
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uh like a plate like a rental company
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Sunbelt Rentals I think Home Depot also
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does it but you rent that roller
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and then you need to make sure before
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you use the roller on your new floor
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what I do is I take a sanding pad and I
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sand all the steel roller Wheels I sand
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them down I get any of the junk from
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some other contractors or something like
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that I get them super clean then I clean
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them up with denatured alcohol
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that way I know the rollers are really
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nice and clean
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and then I roll my floor out because you
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don't want any like metal Burrs or
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anything from some construction site
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that you've got on there also you want
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to
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sand down any uh
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sharp edges so you don't want it cutting
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into your floor since it is a rental
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piece of item
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I guess technically you could also put
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tape around it you could wrap tape
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around it I might I might do that but
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really what you're what we need is we
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need the weight
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to really get that contact patch nice
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and put down
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and it's very quick so once we roll the
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thing out once we roll it down we
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haven't put our epoxy yet but we roll it
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out we're going to put a screw here
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okay so we're going to line up our floor
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we'll put a screw at the front just like
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this and then we'll put a screw at the
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back and we put we do that screw method
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I forgot who I learned it from
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so that you can put half of the material
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on the right and half on the left and
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then you can fold one half over
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work one side quickly
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lay it down
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put it down peel the other side up
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work that side really quick
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and then put it back down it's a really
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good method to manage your time
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because you have seven and a half
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minutes on each side
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so you take the two part you pour it in
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a bucket it needs to
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uh set for about 15 minutes for the
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reaction to start happening and then you
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have 15 minutes after that to actually
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put it down
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so things happen really quick you gotta
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be ready
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so
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that's we're going to get ready for
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um
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and then the other thing that we're
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going to do is when we roll this out
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we're going to do a dry fit before this
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goes down
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and I know this order is backwards but
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don't worry we're going to put it in
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order in a video
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but you need to roll it out you need to
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pre-cut your sides uh the holes in the
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floor
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anything that's going to get in your way
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gluing it down stuff that you can trim
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and remove now
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uh is better than doing it when you're
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in the moment
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because if you can imagine if we're
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coming on this Edge and we get caught up
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on this thing we can't get it and it
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starts messing us up
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you can't get the time back once you
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start the epoxy process so
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you don't need to get caught up on
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trying to fix something or getting
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something unstuck because
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clock is ticking
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and we're going to do the epoxy live
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so
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it'll be enjoyable for you stressful for
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me so
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uh stay tuned for that I don't think
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we'll get it done today today is the
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epoxy and letting this dry overnight and
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then tomorrow we'll
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um actually tomorrow
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I don't think I'm going to be here
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maybe we can knock it out in the morning
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we'll see
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um this takes
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let's see here
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yeah 24 hours
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you can it's tack free and 30 recoat
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three to four hours top coat with second
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component paint
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so technically that would be our epoxy
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in 24 hours
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okay
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all right guys well we are going to uh
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we're going to sign off we are going to
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unless you guys have questions we got
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four people actually watching right now
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so
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do you guys have any questions on the
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floor before I uh
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we're going to come back another live
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stream I'm just gonna I need to let the
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epoxy dry for an hour
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I'm gonna grab some food and I'll be
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back but
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um yeah I got a couple minutes here to
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answer any questions if you guys have
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them
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so let me know
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um while you're thinking of questions
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let's see what else we're going to talk
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about
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the most thing the thing I'm most
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excited about the floor getting in is I
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keep saying things that happen quickly
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they really do because we don't need to
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modify the kitchen galleys we've already
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grinded modified or isotherm Cruise 130
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fridge has already been
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modified cut and re-powder coated so
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those those things are just going to pop
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in
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our battery system is sitting over there
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on our bench it's ready to go it just
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needs to be disassembled partially and
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then reassembled back over here but it's
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going to take us getting the floor in
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because it's going to it needs to sit
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down
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so right here on this Edge
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you see the move with the wood that's
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removed the wood that stays is the
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perimeter to hold
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uh
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the system down
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and there's a lot of weight
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um
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but yeah
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okay looks like I don't have any
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questions so stay tuned for the next
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episode we will be installing our
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waterborne bonding primer
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and that will get us in preparation for
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our floor and bring your questions to
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enjoyed it
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and uh yeah we will see you guys in the
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next stream coming up here shortly
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