It's freaking true......

[1LargeDog]

It has been said that after having a 100% broadcast floor put down that you will never find any screws that you may have dropped. ITS TRUE!!!! I dropped this little white switch plate screw and I could not find it for a day. That is until the next day I walked into the garage bare foot and it almost pierced my heel.

 

[Richard Cranium]

that is what I have heard also.

 

[rharman]

Barefoot is the surest way to find things like this.

 

[ddawg16]

At least you found them...

 

[zeeway]

You can sweep your floor to find small stuff.

 

[mikeyr]

strong magnet on a stick

you can thank me later, after you drop another screw...

 

[txvwnut]

Yup bare feet are the best thing for finding small screws, splinters and Legos.

 

[NitroShark]

Flashlight pointed horizontally against the floor finds them pretty easy.

 

[Dr Stan]

Yup bare feet are the best thing for finding small screws, splinters and Legos.

Next time get the 6 yr old or so from next door to do the bare foot search technique.

 

[Armorpoxy]

Hi,
What 1Largedog is reporting is 100 accurate. For this reason in 'working garages' we always try our best to advise of this potential problem.

We have actually had customers who bought coatings from us online with flecks, and found it so difficult to find things that they ended up recoating the floor. Rare, but it has happened.

A lighter color with a light broadcast it's not so bad. Very busy floors, it's difficult to find small dropped items.

 

[Matt(inma)]

I imagine flow through tiles might have a similar challenge ?

Matt

 

[rburke65]

I would think that a full broadcast floor obviously would be an obstical to finding stuff. Dah...

 

[loafy28]

how common is it now to do the floor and not do any flakes? is this solution overly slippery when wet? What about clear flakes for the traction - is that an option?

thx

 

[SunsetsAndFriends]

...

 

[Armorpoxy]

In lieu of flakes we always include a non skid additive. On non flake projects we supply pigmented topcoat, not clear which gives a beautiful floor. The non skid does more for traction than flakes. We are not familiar with clear flakes.

As for common, most of our commercial/industrial work is without flakes, especially with forklift traffic for the reason that the flakes make millions of 'high spots' that the topcoat can prematurely wear off. Garages most of the time use flakes since 90% of them are just used for parking and storage.

For working garages we advise less or no flakes if small parts are going to be dropped on it a lot.

 

[mygarageone]

Yup bare feet are the best thing for finding small screws, splinters and Legos.

Years ago when carpet was in style , my wife would lose those little stick pins they used for shirt . She could find them in the carpet and would vacume , but that didn't always work . Yep I would find them with my bare feet in the mornings . I swear it happen every week.

 

[Dr Stan]

Used the bare foot technique this AM and found the end of my cell charger.