Hey everybody, so on this job we were hired to do a stained concrete floor so the guy wanted us to stain it and seal it. And this is in his basement, it's probably like six or seven hundred square feet. And as you can see the floor was power-trialed really really smooth, it was very dense, it was very hard, but it was also pretty dirty. So the cool thing about it was it didn't really have any cracks or chips or divots, didn't really have any repair we had to do. So we basically just had to get it cleaned, open up the pores, so it would accept the stain and the sealer. Now what we're doing is we're using our walk behind floor grounder, this is a 20 inch machine, we got some diamond polish and pads on it. And we're just going over the surface and you can see how it's kind of cleaning where Luke's hit and where he hasn't hit, you can see the difference is quite a difference as far as it's cleaning. And when the guys who power-trial this, they left what it looks like is they left some, when you power-trial something really really hard and it's in the sun, you get these kind of like these striping, these darker and lighter areas. And I call it kind of like tiger striping. And when you stain a floor that has this, it actually gives you a really cool look at the end, you're going to see what this looks like at the end. And I want you to let me know if you like how it looks or if you don't, I personally like how it looks when it has this real big variation in shadowing if you want to call it that. I think it looks really cool when you stain it. But it's quite a little process to get it stained, you know, it's not a matter of just, all right, let's come in here and wash it, spray some stained color on it and seal it. It is a little bit of a process to do it and do it right so it's good, it's durable, it lasts a long time and it's pretty maintenance free. And you know, the first part of it is getting it clean like we were with the floor polisher grinder machine right there. And there's other ways to clean it too. And I'll let you know at the end of the video how to figure that out. And then we use our vacuum, we got those big hepavacum that we use for all kinds of other things. Now we're getting it clean, we want to make sure we don't leave any dust left behind because we want to be able to just stain it like we are right here. Let it dry and then come right back over and seal it. Now we're using an acetone base stain so it's actually like a dye, an acetone dye. You can get this exact same stain in a water-based solution that would do the exact same thing. It just doesn't dry quite as fast. So you know, when we're on a job that the acetone dye, the water-based dyes and stains, they all penetrate down into the concrete somewhat and then they got to be sealed so they don't wear off. But they all work good. It's just a matter of, you know, drying times. In a basement like this, I would definitely recommend probably if you're a DIYer, probably the water-based one. Where we'll real experience that this, you know, the acetone ones obviously give off some fumes. So you got to be real careful working with them inside. Make sure everything's ventilated really, really good, which we have a lot of good ventilation here because there were some windows down here. There were some fans in the windows. But the water-based stain ones are much safer to work with, probably even much easier to work with. There's some things here with the acetone stuff that you can, that can go wrong if you don't know what you're doing. But you can see how DARREN's just spraying that color on there and how the color is actually enhancing the underlying look of the concrete. It's darkening up the darker spots and it's actually bringing out the lighter spots, which is kind of a cool look. It's kind of what they were looking for. This room was really, really bright. It was mostly white. So they wanted to add a little bit of darker color to the floor. And they like this leather tan-ish kind of color. So this was exactly what they were looking for here. Now, you can, with these stains, you know, you can go over it. This is the first pass. If you don't really like the coverage on the first pass after it dries, you can just go right back out, go over it again. You could go over it with a different color in different spots and highlight different tones if you wanted to. This was basically the color they were looking for. So now what I'm doing now is I've got, I'm using a water-based sealer in here and I'm just spraying this on. That white is what the sealer looks like when it's wet and then it dries to a nice clear look. So the sealer, it's going to darken it a hear at first. But as it dries up, it's going to, you know, lighten up a little bit and it may end up darkening the whole floor a little bit when you're all done. But we go over the floor with this water-based sealer two or three times and get two or three good coats on. And then to protect that, you can go over it with a floor finish, kind of like a wax if you want to. And that'll help maintain the sealer a little bit easier. But this is the basic process. Now, I got in my training membership program, the concrete underground, you know, I got all the steps broken down in there. I got the products we use, the different ways to clean this. If you don't have access to one of those floor polishes like we do, there's a, there's a few other things we can do to get the floor up here. If you're a DIYer and you want to try this on your own. So make sure you check out the link to the concrete underground down below. If you want to learn how to do this, that would be the best place to go. I get a training video. But just, that's the same job where I go into more depth on how we do it and what we use. You can see I'm just, the pump up sprayer works good. It gives it a nice even coat for the sealer on there. But that's, that's how this stained floor comes to life right there. Now, we don't typically do anything to the saw joints you could. You could cock them after you could grout them. You could grout them in advance if you wanted to and then just stain that too. But typically for most people in a basement like this, like he was turning this into an office area, the saw joints aren't going to really matter if you fill them or not. They're not going to get that dirty. And if they do have a little bit of dust in them when you vacuum, it's going to take them right out. It just kind of, actually, it kind of adds to the look of the floor. You could actually saw a pattern in this floor, you know, some diamond tiles, two by two, a four by four. That would kind of look kind of cool too if you wanted to. You can see how we got the walls all nice and protected. That's really key when you're standing. You want to make sure you run that poly up the walls, tape off the baseboard if the baseboards on there. Because the stain gets everywhere. You can see the windows that were in here. Plus there was a couple other access doors on this opposite side that we could just push some fresh air right through this whole room. That kept the fumes way, way down almost to nothing really. The water-based sealer really doesn't have any fumes. The acetone die has a few fumes to it, but I'm going to show you right here in a second. So this was the finished look. You can see how nice that looked. It had a nice matte finish. Came out looking really, really cool, really lot of antiquing like look to it. So you let me down the comments. Do you like the floor? How it looks now? Do you think it looks kind of cool? Do you think it looks ugly? Let me know down in the comments. The before picture was really, you know, the concrete was in pretty ugly looking shape. It was pretty dirty. And the trial mocks really didn't add anything to the look. See there when it was before. And then afterwards, you know, it really, those trial mocks really did help bring out a really unique type of looking floor. So let me know what you think down in the comments. Thanks again for watching guys. We'll see you on the next one.