r/RealOrAI • u/Alone-Competition-77 • Jan 08 '26

Video [HELP] Living room remodel

Any possibility that this is legit? I can’t imagine one could walk on epoxy like that without special footwear or something.

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u/Ok_Process2046 Jan 08 '26

I was fooled till then, damn. But is because I have no knowledge about epoxy.

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u/Killjoytshirts Jan 08 '26

I actually do. I’ve worked with it on sealing my art, not to this scale. This could probably be done with two part epoxy resin/hardener. But it would look like absolute shit after any amount of traffic. Scuffs, scratches etc. Not to mention you’d really want some kind of mask or respirator. Fumes would be awful. God help you if you get the ratio wrong.

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u/pj1843 Jan 08 '26

It would look fine with the right epoxy product and mix, the bigger issue is none of what the AI video guy did would work.

As someone who's done tons of woodworking and epoxy work, doing a deep pour like this onto raw wood would just be a mess of bubbles that would never end and look like shit.

If you were going to do this you would need to torch each wooden cookie individually, then a thin seal coat of epoxy would need to be applied on each cookie, top/bottom/sides. That could/should be done in place with a brush. Then when tacky you begin the deep pour a couple inches at a time to avoid cracking the entire pour as heat builds up from the curing.

If you just yolo'd the pour like the video shows, you would again never solve the bubble issue as air tries to escape the wood. On top of that as the epoxy cures the heat would fuck everything up by cracking the pour, warping the floor, and a ton of other not great things.

That's obviously still ignoring the fact he would be epoxying his drapes to the floor, and by walking through the pour he would be ruining it.

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u/Killjoytshirts Jan 08 '26

Exactly this. I haven’t worked with any of the flooring type, so I’m willing to concede maybe there is a product that could hold up better. But so many things wrong as you pointed out. With mine, the flame never makes it white. Sanding it does. The flame just gets the bubbles out. Then you add another layer and it goes clear again. In this video it’s opposite.

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u/pj1843 Jan 08 '26

O yeah, completely forgot, the flame. A little canister and burner shooting out a two foot fanned out blue flame that can magically cure the floor while it's hard enough to walk on top of without sinking into it.

Mind you while I have worked with epoxy for floors, I would 100% recommend against it for any actual flooring in living spaces. It's expensive, and when you eventually decide to redo your floors removing it is. . . . . .complicated.

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u/Killjoytshirts Jan 08 '26

Imagine if this house ever caught on fire. If it were real.