Spiked shoes, I never even thought of that as an option. Now that you point it out it makes perfect sense. Funny how so many things are obvious - but ONLY after someone else points them out.
To the installers, its common sense. To everyone else, it's not so obvious. It's funny how common sense is common if one learns it previously. So common sense is learned and not so common.
The whole of human history and advancement in knowledge is like this! You never know what is gonna be done tomorrow that isn’t even complex, you just didn’t think of it!
@@Sig.40 the industrial revolution would like to have a word with ya. Sharing knowledge is how we advanced so fast brotha, most modern tech is 100 years old.
@@trvman1 The spikes are minimum of 25mm long d need to be re-enforced steel or tungsten . They are also as little as £15 in the trade Golf shoes spike height is minimal and are not strong enough. Also they are £50 -£500
Only the real ones now ive been doing stonhard floors for 9 years now smallest floors we do are 12,000 mostly troweled mortar with flake system it is definitely hard work
Bro tell me about it . We was doing 90hrs week. Getting to the bag. the biggest floor I did was the World Trade Center 75,000 sq feet and we had to polish is it. You know we had the 800 htc grinder started with the scrappers to get that hard glue than Run the 30s than 70s than 120s than we had to density and run the pads I was a beast on the machine and the metabo and 5inch as well. I miss the work and money but it was a killer dealing with all that silica
Honestly the prepping for this is the annoying part. Cleats were used walking on this. Did a lot of jobs. Flake was the only thing I hated about the job.
Ah, the old "curious for an answer but too lazy to explore" predicament. I myself am in a boat full of questions I don't remember currently, but might one day if someone answers them. Happy for you brother 😎
I wore golf shoes once in my parents house in 1986, walked through the kitchen on that linoleum floor and to this day I still have a scar on the side of my neck from getting slapped with a wooden spoon
@@abigailasis9010, if you have 2 ask you had a different kinda momma, our kinda momma would hit you with whatever close when we'd do something stupid in the kitchen wooden utensils in the bathroom hairbrush if she's resting in her chair the back of her slippers. It might just be a southern momma thang, yeah thang not thing😊❤😊
I miss this kind of work and definitely like the idea of the spiked shoes but in AZ we struggled to use them sometimes bc the epoxy would thicken/set too fast for us to use them, oftjust bankrolled from the start even though it was slower.
Yup! They're just like HUGE sandal looking things that secure overtop of your work boot and have about 20-25 spikes on the bottom of them. If you've been in sports the spikes closely resemble the kind of spikes you'd find on the bottom of Track and Field spikes.
That's right I'm a flooring contractor we have them when we self level a floor its called f.l.c ( floor leveling compound)same concept and it works very well just make sure you clean them after for your next job 👍
I did this exact same thing in the late 1970s, same color too, pouring a floor for a roller skating rink. Used spiked shoes too. The floor came out real smooth.
We had our factory floor painted and as soon as the crew showed up the owner asked everyone's shoe size - hen went and bought everyone a set of golf cleats, which all got thrown in the garbage after the floor was painted
@@QuadMochaMattiImagine thinking that sealing a floor against corrosion and keeping your staff safe while they do the sealing is "needless." You know what's needless? You being on the internet and crying about people doing their jobs.
@@QuadMochaMatti they could f up the floor without these shoes and might have to do it twice. And probably you would have to come up legaly with some solution like this in Order to prevent oil spills,…
@@QuadMochaMatti your message was sent on a device that requires slave labor from across the world to make, and you’re calling what he’s doing needless? Go mine some cobalt 😂
Yes it is very good floor antimicrobial antibacterial antifungal I was doing it in the hospital emergency rooms but don’t buy the Home Depot kind because it’s not commercial Apoxsee you actually have to have a Apoxsee license and go to class for six months to get the license and then you’re certified you have to have the certificate of completion to buy the material and there’s only several warehouses in the United States and there’s not a lot of people doing it with the fumes the fumes are bad it’ll give you a proxy poisoning and when they’re walking on them spikes it is very slippery I’m very agile and I have fallen a few times and it’s very very expensive do you have resin which is about $500 a 5 gallon bucket and then you have Hardner which is $500 a bucket I forget how many square feet it is but the attitude that everybody that does Apoxsee they think they are God it’s very simple it’s just like painting the freaking wall but it’s a floor you could also throw paint chips in it as well and then you have a seal coat do you have partners you have fast there’s a lot into it but it’s really not that hard and the mixture goes 1 gallon Hardner 2 gallons of resin to the one good luck👍🫵
I have it on my garage floor, cost heaps. Any damage can’t be repaired easily like it can with paint. Also car tyres still wreck it, so you have have it covered where you drive your car. Quality click together tiles are better imo
@@Crowbar381costs 3-8$ a square foot. It's chemical resistant to anything in the average home and stronger than the concrete it sits on. Repair process is identical to fixing a paint scratch other than mixing the two part epoxy. I repair these all the time and you can barely tell. My boss has a 22 year old epoxy floor, my supervisors is just over 15 and mine is nine years old. No repairs yet and not a crack in sight. An excellent investment
I work in the IT field. It’s stressful, also depends where you work. On average 9-10hour days, work all days of the week, it’s an Manufactering environment so it’s 24/7, I can work from Home 2-5 hours also a day, depends on who calls/what it is and what all I need to get done still from the day or what someone needs done, we have 3 plants, a LOT of servers, LOTS of workstations, design PC’s production management, As/400’s etc. 4 people in IT, two in one plant, two in mine, and me and my manager handles the remote plant and my home location, it’s a SHIT TON of work every day and a lot to manage
I have been doing it for a decade and only worked over 16 hours once. Usually I am done early if we are doing epoxy work. I always find polishing takes longer
@@utubesuxalotofazz I did industrial epoxy. So factories would be closed holidays or weekends or whatever and want how ever many thousand square feet done. We didn't have a planetary grinder at the time so we hand ground everything. We eventually upgraded and it got a lot nicer lol. Polishing does also take an eternity.
When we did our floors at work, we did a first coat that we thinned with xylene to break the surface tension and allow the epoxy to penetrate into and better bond with the concrete.
My friend owns a business doing this. He's a good fair priced christian man he makes good money! My husband did a job for him one day bc he was short handed.....😮 Lol he came home TIRED as f !!! they do big restaurants and businesses, they pull all nighters sometimes!! What an awesome job!!
I worked for Stonehard for 3-4 years. Got to see a lot of factories I never would have otherwise wanted to see them. I never could have imagined the absolute genius engineering involved in building custom purpose built factories. Miller-Coors in Athens (if I remember correctly) Georgia, is the most insanely complex engineering marvel I've ever seen in my life. Cool job, it was a good break between setting tile. I kinda miss it sometimes.
I was doing epoxy floors as a kid 20 years ago with my pops after he had one put in his restaurant and was so intrigued he had a duraflex rep come spend a weekend at our house and do our garage to show us how it's done. Havent done floors in years now tho
Gotta watch those spiked shoes, I’ve been using this technique for over twenty years and recently got a blister on my left foot that turned into a staph infection that has caused me to be off work for the last ten weeks. Seen a few people slip over on spikes, it not only hurts but you land on your back in wet resin.
Man those spiked shoes can be rude as hell, almost busted my ass trying to do a floor at work. Apparently the stuff they put on before the epoxy for us was slippery as fk lol
@@FrostE941 ok nice. If used epoxy quite a bit for a job that I used to have and we never dyed anything so I’ve never seen that before that’s pretty sweet
@@boiwak2561 just add mica powder to get metallic and check transparency on a stick or something... check out stone coat countertops or laggari on yt... I like stone coat makes cool shower walls with pink board and epoxy.
I used to do that kinda flooring it's a pretty cool job, I liked spreading the epoxy and apparently I was the best one at it cuz I always had to do that part which was cool, better than mixing that shit and carrying it over
Back in the day my dad used to have pairs of spiked golf shoes I thought he played golf but he explained it was for wen he laid out waterproofing material on the ground 😮
What are the chances that inhaling the fumes from these chemical paints for day, months and years on end could cause neurological degeneration or other dangerous health conditions for your employees? My guess is very high.
They have already scraped the material so they then walk on the wet epoxy to role it using spike roller to brake bubbles and also create an even surface
They aren't walking on the floor because they have spiked shoes, they are wearing spiked shoes because THEY HAVE TO WALK ON THE WET FLOOR. Now try again. Why are they walking on the wet floor?floor?
Spiked shoes! Must be hard as heck to stay upright. Last hardwood floor I did I took shoes and eyewear off to correct a dry spot. Slipped in oil base finish and landed on my eyewear. Busted where I sit too!
I never wondered why... I always wondered how. Cause I never seen boot prints yet what they were walking through was obviously very wet. Thanks for clearing that up. 👍
I worked somewhere like this. It’s a coating job, we would lay 3-4 layers of paint and throw sand on top and roll the sand. We did it mostly for parking garages.
Should always sweep twice then mop with dish soap bc it sucks oil out the floor then mop good let it dry good and u won't see the dirt streaks u see here and will often change color of the floor and look a dif shade from both sides of the room
they are high AF off the fumes and aren’t even touching the floor
Water based coating.. nothing harmful.
False equivalency son 🎉
@@robertfitzsimmons9428 don't be such a killjoy Bob... 🙄😅
Love me some good liquid floors but flakes and metallics are my favs
@Robert Fitzsimmons it's epoxy not water based
Spiked shoes, I never even thought of that as an option. Now that you point it out it makes perfect sense. Funny how so many things are obvious - but ONLY after someone else points them out.
To the installers, its common sense. To everyone else, it's not so obvious. It's funny how common sense is common if one learns it previously. So common sense is learned and not so common.
The whole of human history and advancement in knowledge is like this! You never know what is gonna be done tomorrow that isn’t even complex, you just didn’t think of it!
@@Sig.40 the industrial revolution would like to have a word with ya. Sharing knowledge is how we advanced so fast brotha, most modern tech is 100 years old.
Excuse the pun lol
Logger rubber boots.
And the guy that thought up the spike shoes quit his job because he is now making millions selling spike shoes.
You need had spiked shoes? We could them "spikes" for short back in the day. Spikes.
Called*
@@SoulDelSol this entire sentence needs a revision Dan 😂 we appreciate it nevertheless
Just go find some used golf shoes cheap and you have spiked shoes.
@@trvman1
The spikes are minimum of 25mm long d need to be re-enforced steel or tungsten . They are also as little as £15 in the trade
Golf shoes spike height is minimal and are not strong enough. Also they are £50 -£500
I used to use golf shoes when I coated floors.
Works great unless it is wood floor.
@@calvinjones6510 bruh you cover the floor in colored epoxy common sense is hard sometimes
@@thatindianguy3009 It was an intentional bait joke. ;)
@@calvinjones6510 on that note props
Worked with a bloke doing epoxy floors he wore his footy boots the mad cunt 😂
Used to do epoxy floors for a year 75 hrs a week hundreds of thousands of sq feet that shit ain’t no joke
Only the real ones now ive been doing stonhard floors for 9 years now smallest floors we do are 12,000 mostly troweled mortar with flake system it is definitely hard work
How was the $$$?
Bro tell me about it . We was doing 90hrs week. Getting to the bag. the biggest floor I did was the World Trade Center 75,000 sq feet and we had to polish is it. You know we had the 800 htc grinder started with the scrappers to get that hard glue than Run the 30s than 70s than 120s than we had to density and run the pads I was a beast on the machine and the metabo and 5inch as well. I miss the work and money but it was a killer dealing with all that silica
Honestly the prepping for this is the annoying part. Cleats were used walking on this. Did a lot of jobs. Flake was the only thing I hated about the job.
@@kingtut1212 You sure you only had 2 hours of sleep a day? Or are you lying. Even 75 is believable for a heavy in demand job.
I needed an answer to this question for like five years thank you so much
Wow, the ability to find answers on your own is not a skill you have.
dummahh
Really?
It's not that hard to figure out lol
Did you not have Internet for five years?
Ah, the old "curious for an answer but too lazy to explore" predicament.
I myself am in a boat full of questions I don't remember currently, but might one day if someone answers them.
Happy for you brother 😎
I wore golf shoes once in my parents house in 1986, walked through the kitchen on that linoleum floor and to this day I still have a scar on the side of my neck from getting slapped with a wooden spoon
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Could u pls explain
@@abigailasis9010his mom did not appreciate them ruining the floor
😂😂😂
@@abigailasis9010, if you have 2 ask you had a different kinda momma, our kinda momma would hit you with whatever close when we'd do something stupid in the kitchen wooden utensils in the bathroom hairbrush if she's resting in her chair the back of her slippers. It might just be a southern momma thang, yeah thang not thing😊❤😊
Thought you were pouring paint into a pool for a quick sec 😂😂😂😂
Yup Me to🤦🏽😂😂😂
What is it tho?
Sameeee
Exactly
😅
I miss this kind of work and definitely like the idea of the spiked shoes but in AZ we struggled to use them sometimes bc the epoxy would thicken/set too fast for us to use them, oftjust bankrolled from the start even though it was slower.
Yup! They're just like HUGE sandal looking things that secure overtop of your work boot and have about 20-25 spikes on the bottom of them. If you've been in sports the spikes closely resemble the kind of spikes you'd find on the bottom of Track and Field spikes.
That's right I'm a flooring contractor we have them when we self level a floor its called f.l.c ( floor leveling compound)same concept and it works very well just make sure you clean them after for your next job 👍
I did this exact same thing in the late 1970s, same color too, pouring a floor for a roller skating rink. Used spiked shoes too. The floor came out real smooth.
We had our factory floor painted and as soon as the crew showed up the owner asked everyone's shoe size - hen went and bought everyone a set of golf cleats, which all got thrown in the garbage after the floor was painted
So besides needless chemical coatings, additional needless waste was created. Great job. 😫
@@QuadMochaMatti I thought that was ridiculous because a 12 person crew at over $140 each pair plus tax was almost $2000 for a 3 day job
@@QuadMochaMattiImagine thinking that sealing a floor against corrosion and keeping your staff safe while they do the sealing is "needless." You know what's needless? You being on the internet and crying about people doing their jobs.
@@QuadMochaMatti they could f up the floor without these shoes and might have to do it twice. And probably you would have to come up legaly with some solution like this in Order to prevent oil spills,…
@@QuadMochaMatti your message was sent on a device that requires slave labor from across the world to make, and you’re calling what he’s doing needless? Go mine some cobalt 😂
this splatoon gameplay is fire
thats what I thought
Beautiful color
Genius whoever came up with this idea even though its not that big its still genius. Saving up all the time.
Epoxy paint must be very durable, I'm thinking that would be really good in your personal mechanic garage, home garage.
Yes it is very good floor antimicrobial antibacterial antifungal I was doing it in the hospital emergency rooms but don’t buy the Home Depot kind because it’s not commercial Apoxsee you actually have to have a Apoxsee license and go to class for six months to get the license and then you’re certified you have to have the certificate of completion to buy the material and there’s only several warehouses in the United States and there’s not a lot of people doing it with the fumes the fumes are bad it’ll give you a proxy poisoning and when they’re walking on them spikes it is very slippery I’m very agile and I have fallen a few times and it’s very very expensive do you have resin which is about $500 a 5 gallon bucket and then you have Hardner which is $500 a bucket I forget how many square feet it is but the attitude that everybody that does Apoxsee they think they are God it’s very simple it’s just like painting the freaking wall but it’s a floor you could also throw paint chips in it as well and then you have a seal coat do you have partners you have fast there’s a lot into it but it’s really not that hard and the mixture goes 1 gallon Hardner 2 gallons of resin to the one good luck👍🫵
that's exacly my thought 👍
@paulbiccum4862 it's spelled 'epoxy' 😂
Highly durable. Good for a kid's playroom or bedroom too. (Although you can't let them in there for awhile till the fumes dissipate.) 😅😊
They are construction cleats that wrap around your shoe/boot. That have little spikes that they walk on
This video is satisfying to watch great workmanship here.
Thank you very much!
Shoes got basically small cleat spikes on the bottom that keep the area you’re touching next to nothing
You just repeated what he said
@@Turtlenaide heaven forbid two people know how something works, darn
I love this video! You guys are doing amazing things!
Well not really
Don’t let Kanye find these
That is really cool
It’s amazing how little people know or can’t figure out.
You didnt know anything until you learned so have some patience with people because someday it will be you or was you
That’s one of the best floors you can put down in anybody’s garage.
I have it on my garage floor, cost heaps. Any damage can’t be repaired easily like it can with paint. Also car tyres still wreck it, so you have have it covered where you drive your car. Quality click together tiles are better imo
Very tough long lasting
It’s actually a terrible option. Don’t see why you wouldn’t want polished concrete. Easily repaired by anyone with a brain.
@@Crowbar381 you can't drive on your garage flooor?
@@Crowbar381costs 3-8$ a square foot. It's chemical resistant to anything in the average home and stronger than the concrete it sits on. Repair process is identical to fixing a paint scratch other than mixing the two part epoxy. I repair these all the time and you can barely tell. My boss has a 22 year old epoxy floor, my supervisors is just over 15 and mine is nine years old. No repairs yet and not a crack in sight. An excellent investment
Ive been doing epoxy nearly 15 years now. You need to be a certain kind of person, some days will be 16+ hours long depending on your time crunch.
I work in the IT field. It’s stressful, also depends where you work. On average 9-10hour days, work all days of the week, it’s an Manufactering environment so it’s 24/7, I can work from
Home 2-5 hours also a day, depends on who calls/what it is and what all I need to get done still from the day or what someone needs done, we have 3 plants, a LOT of servers, LOTS of workstations, design PC’s production management, As/400’s etc. 4 people in IT, two in one plant, two in mine, and me and my manager handles the remote plant and my home location, it’s a SHIT TON of work every day and a lot to manage
I have been doing it for a decade and only worked over 16 hours once. Usually I am done early if we are doing epoxy work. I always find polishing takes longer
@@utubesuxalotofazz I did industrial epoxy. So factories would be closed holidays or weekends or whatever and want how ever many thousand square feet done. We didn't have a planetary grinder at the time so we hand ground everything. We eventually upgraded and it got a lot nicer lol. Polishing does also take an eternity.
WOW … You learn something new everyday!!
I'll Get A pair from The Teflon Don ...So I can Wear them at the next election.
Back rolling makes everything look good. I love it!!!!
Thank you!
When we did our floors at work, we did a first coat that we thinned with xylene to break the surface tension and allow the epoxy to penetrate into and better bond with the concrete.
My friend owns a business doing this. He's a good fair priced christian man he makes good money! My husband did a job for him one day bc he was short handed.....😮 Lol he came home TIRED as f !!! they do big restaurants and businesses, they pull all nighters sometimes!! What an awesome job!!
I thought he was runnin on the side of the pool at first 😂
Me too..lol
I worked for Stonehard for 3-4 years. Got to see a lot of factories I never would have otherwise wanted to see them. I never could have imagined the absolute genius engineering involved in building custom purpose built factories. Miller-Coors in Athens (if I remember correctly) Georgia, is the most insanely complex engineering marvel I've ever seen in my life.
Cool job, it was a good break between setting tile. I kinda miss it sometimes.
Now I can sleep tonight, thank you.
Man if I could make a list of all the reasons to own some spiked shoes ... ❤😂
That blue is amazing
That looks so relaxing to do
Man there were a few times doing gym floors where I wish I could have been able to use something like that without damaging the floor
I was doing epoxy floors as a kid 20 years ago with my pops after he had one put in his restaurant and was so intrigued he had a duraflex rep come spend a weekend at our house and do our garage to show us how it's done. Havent done floors in years now tho
New Splatoon game lookin good
I am loving that color of blue, looking good!
They are called " KORKERS " also Golf shoes work really well
You made the word korkers up. Not falling for it. Nice try buster!
Great job
thank you sir!
We use the same spikes when pouring self-leveler and spreading it out.
The easiest flooring to do hands down. Literal cake walk to do epoxy floors
Gotta watch those spiked shoes, I’ve been using this technique for over twenty years and recently got a blister on my left foot that turned into a staph infection that has caused me to be off work for the last ten weeks. Seen a few people slip over on spikes, it not only hurts but you land on your back in wet resin.
Need to show the finished product
The immediate answer is both refreshing and gave me whiplash
Bro won an argument against air💀💀💀
This is their way of dealing with the, BLUES.
😅
Used to do this with self leveling epoxy as a heavy industrial painter years ago. Gotta have a highly ventilated area or respirators, definitely.
😲 I love that color!!!
Sky blue!!!
Idk why but this job looks up my alley. Something about pouring stuff and spreading it across a surface is satisfying and rewarding
high as a kite every day getting them fumes
No, it’s a 0 VOC product
@@prestondavis8985 he’s talking about the fumes from the paint they just huffed before starting work
Man those spiked shoes can be rude as hell, almost busted my ass trying to do a floor at work. Apparently the stuff they put on before the epoxy for us was slippery as fk lol
Slipped and spilt an entire bucket of epoxy on myself once!
My father had an epoxy flooring business, it is an easy big money job.
I was wondering so now I know that’s pretty cool
You're a genius!!
What material is that? Never saw one so blue before
Epoxy, you can put dye or mica powder in it
Pigment or mica powder in epoxy
@@FrostE941 ok nice. If used epoxy quite a bit for a job that I used to have and we never dyed anything so I’ve never seen that before that’s pretty sweet
@@boiwak2561 just add mica powder to get metallic and check transparency on a stick or something... check out stone coat countertops or laggari on yt... I like stone coat makes cool shower walls with pink board and epoxy.
I used to wear the old school ones that look like crocs because I have no idea why they un tie themselves
They're actually secretly Splatoon characters
They use spikes, running shoe type pointed spikes. The epoxy is self sealing
Thank you!
Spiked shoes... use the same for self levelling compounds...
I used to do that kinda flooring it's a pretty cool job, I liked spreading the epoxy and apparently I was the best one at it cuz I always had to do that part which was cool, better than mixing that shit and carrying it over
They coated the floors in our nuclear power plant with something like that.
It was real easy to keep clean (not contaminated).
Spikes
We used to wear old metal baseball cleats before spikes available
Sounds like such an expert. If you spent 10 minutes doing flooring, you would know this already.
THIS is sooooo satisfying
Actually looks fun.
that's actually cool ash
Very, very nice! The value of knowledge and experience is literally priceless!
Spikes. Them bad boys are slick too. I've seen so many apprentices put these on and fall 2 minutes later. Just gotta walk like normal I said.😂
I so want to do some epoxy floors at mom’s house. Always wanted to do that for her. Epoxy looks like so much fun😊
Back in the day my dad used to have pairs of spiked golf shoes I thought he played golf but he explained it was for wen he laid out waterproofing material on the ground 😮
I think I have a new obsession… lol
What are the chances that inhaling the fumes from these chemical paints for day, months and years on end could cause neurological degeneration or other dangerous health conditions for your employees? My guess is very high.
I always wondered learn something new everyday!!
The question is why are they walking on the floor. Not what they are wearing on the floor.
They have already scraped the material so they then walk on the wet epoxy to role it using spike roller to brake bubbles and also create an even surface
On the bottom of their shoes are spikes that on the paint surface is tiny pigmented pixel sizes to the human eyes.
They aren't walking on the floor because they have spiked shoes, they are wearing spiked shoes because THEY HAVE TO WALK ON THE WET FLOOR. Now try again. Why are they walking on the wet floor?floor?
AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT THEY WERE WEARING HIGH HEELS JUST GETTING OUT THE CLOSET 😂
Spiked shoes! Must be hard as heck to stay upright. Last hardwood floor I did I took shoes and eyewear off to correct a dry spot. Slipped in oil base finish and landed on my eyewear. Busted where I sit too!
I would be so blue, if I slipped!😂
I never wondered why... I always wondered how. Cause I never seen boot prints yet what they were walking through was obviously very wet. Thanks for clearing that up. 👍
That how you get good coverage by being in it w/spikes
*Bro got the SpongeBob “That’s a big boot” collector 5’s on*
Thanks for clarifying that for me
Every tiler here in Germany when they level the floor pre-tiliing.
Crazy how they made a Splatoon live action
Amazing!!!! Blue my favorite color...
This looks so cool.
I worked somewhere like this. It’s a coating job, we would lay 3-4 layers of paint and throw sand on top and roll the sand. We did it mostly for parking garages.
That's so satisfying 😮
Walking on wet paint is the least of their concerns considering their in a closed off area breathing in all those fumes with no respiratory equipment
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I’ve donde that and the sanding with a blower 😊. Fun job, great money
Can we get an explanation video for the explanation video? Thanks
Exactly I used to do that quite often
I always thought they were levitating, interesting.
Did this for like 3 years. Preparing it sucks but finish is fun.
Should always sweep twice then mop with dish soap bc it sucks oil out the floor then mop good let it dry good and u won't see the dirt streaks u see here and will often change color of the floor and look a dif shade from both sides of the room