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  1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,180 [music] 2 00:00:10,180 --> 00:00:28,700 Barrett-Jackson started out in the early 70s as a car show. Tom Barrett and Russ Jackson 3 00:00:28,700 --> 00:00:33,319 got together and decided we should start an auction business and pretty much the rest 4 00:00:33,319 --> 00:00:39,020 is history at that point. So behind me here at Barrett-Jackson headquarters we have our 5 00:00:39,020 --> 00:00:45,560 photo and video studio. We primarily use this facility for photographs for our upcoming 6 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:50,299 auction vehicles. Whether that's highlight vehicles, marketing vehicles, we'll use it 7 00:00:50,299 --> 00:00:58,020 for video content. Some of the unique needs we have for our floor is long term durability. 8 00:00:58,020 --> 00:01:03,580 So you know back in the 90s and early 2000s what we would do as photographers is we would 9 00:01:03,580 --> 00:01:07,779 just constantly paint our floors over and over and over again. Sometimes we get some 10 00:01:07,779 --> 00:01:13,299 vehicles in here that are 8,000 pounds and I'm turning the wheels on that. If you did 11 00:01:13,299 --> 00:01:18,000 that on an acrylic surface it would just rip it up and you're just going to keep compounding. 12 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:24,059 So we looked at some epoxy solutions and through the years of trial and error I just determined 13 00:01:24,059 --> 00:01:29,400 that I needed to find someone and a product that was going to be better. Luckily I reached 14 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:34,440 out to Brilliant Epoxy Floors. I met Eric, I had him come over and we walked through 15 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:39,319 and I literally just said, here's the challenges I have, here's what I'm looking to accomplish and 16 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:46,519 what do you think? And he was the first person that understood that rubber releases a chemical 17 00:01:46,519 --> 00:01:52,160 into certain materials and discolors it. I knew that the conversation could keep going to the 18 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:58,760 next level and so we decided let's try something out. Let's try the Sherwin-Williams product. 19 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:05,440 One of the challenges we have with our wall was exhaust. The exhaust in older vehicles, it's 20 00:02:05,440 --> 00:02:09,400 just the nature that comes with vehicles that sit in museums for a long time. You start them up, 21 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:15,720 exhaust comes out. So when I explained that to Eric, he said hey there's a product that I think 22 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:22,280 we should try. He uses it in the restaurant industry quite a bit. HTS product by Sherwin-Williams and 23 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:27,480 I said let's give it a shot. How close can we get to matching the floor and the wall? That was the 24 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:34,120 next part of that and he said we can do a custom color, we can match it and that's what we ended 25 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:41,099 up doing. We wanted a high gloss floor to just get that reflection, that lower angle that really 26 00:02:41,099 --> 00:02:47,040 creates a piece of art because really at the end of the day vehicles are a piece of art. Having this 27 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:52,239 white floor, it's kind of reinvigorated some creativity to come in the studio and create some 28 00:02:52,239 --> 00:02:59,439 more stuff and now being able to have that color match look nice and seamless in the back with 29 00:02:59,439 --> 00:03:05,640 the minimal amount of maintenance is an amazing thing. So I would use Sherwin-Williams products 30 00:03:05,640 --> 00:03:06,439 any day of the week.

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