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00:00Let's face it, life on the road is not sympathetic, and sooner or later, things do tend to break down,
00:08with your RV's spotless exterior often being the first casualty.
00:13Exposed to the elements, your rig is at the mercy of the sun that doesn't care much for its appearance as it slowly cooks the finish,
00:22oxidizing, fading, and turning that smooth gel coat into a cracked, crumbly crust.
00:29Out here, campsites under the prettiest pines come with sticky souvenirs of sap and resin,
00:37while every mile adds a fresh layer of road grime that ruthlessly chips away at paint, metal, and any potential resale value.
00:47Although traditional waxes and sealants offer a temporary solution to preserving an RV's packaging,
00:54a custom ceramic coating acts more like a permanent force field for trailers that like looking good while they travel.
01:02And so far, the best professional-grade protection we've seen comes from a brand highly sought after for their lasting durable defense,
01:11against anything sabotaging a smooth, shiny surface.
01:16With the community to see, they are people who are having to move on to dark side,
01:18so you can see it with lots of dreams of a blanket as shown.
01:19Even in the way, they may have been designed to be a bit more sensitive-to-to-to-performed kind of a big city
01:24that everything has to be covered in the same place.
01:26And it's just soemic that this far, they're the best personal and explicit getting a fresh layer of color.
01:28My name is Briston Lowell, and I'm one of the owners here at Master Applied Coatings,
01:53also known as MAC, and we specialize in a permanent ceramic coating.
01:58We mostly started out in Airstreams, and we've moved more into fifth wheels and class ARVs,
02:06and now we're getting more into boats and motorcycles and pretty much all kinds of vehicles.
02:12Currently, we have three locations for MAC.
02:14We have one in Tallahassee, Florida.
02:16We have another one in Dallas, and currently I'm in the new Dallas facility,
02:20and then we have one in Sacramento, California.
02:23All of our facilities are a pet-friendly facility, so feel free to bring your dogs.
02:29We love dogs. We have a few shop dogs ourselves, so feel free to bring them by.
02:34Both a beauty treatment and a body armor, this category of ceramic doesn't just make your ride look amazing.
02:41It keeps it that way by introducing a thicker, harder layer atop the existing clear coat.
02:48This custom shield locks in shine and blocks out acidic bugs and bird droppings
02:54that no longer stick around to vandalize the veneer,
02:58as cleanup becomes just a splash of water along this slick shell.
03:03A high-tech formula that stays put no matter how rough the road gets.
03:11Our ceramic coating is a proprietary formula that's made here in the U.S.,
03:15and we work directly with the chemists, so, you know, if something changes in the air,
03:19you know, the humidity is different, temperature is different,
03:22we can always make adjustments very quickly to fit what we need at any of our locations.
03:28And it has a lot of UV resistance. It has a 9H hardness on the Mohs scale,
03:34so it's harder to actually scratch itself.
03:37A lot of things don't actually stick to it. It's very hydrophobic, so it repels a lot of the water, too.
03:43You don't have to wax your trailer anymore, which is great.
03:45You know, it's time-consuming to have to wax, but the main thing is protection from the elements,
03:50protection from sun damage, you know, mostly on those Class A's and, you know, the gel coat finishes,
03:55protection from oxidation, you know, from the aluminum on, let's say, an Airstream.
04:00Most other ones you're going to find are maybe three to five years,
04:04and you have to come back and get a booster every year. Ours is not like that.
04:08And so it's all in the chemistry of it.
04:11The way that it actually bonds to the clear coat is different.
04:14You know, it's the reason we can call it permanent.
04:16We're the first-ever permanent ceramic coating on the market.
04:20What that does mean is the actual chemical bond it's making, we don't expect it to just fell
04:26or come off of the surface of your RV.
04:30You know, it's permanently bonded to it.
04:31You know, if that happens to give it out or there's something failing underneath it,
04:35then the ceramic doesn't have anything to hold on to anymore.
04:37A really good example is a gel coat surface.
04:39They fell very fast, and if they have really bad oxidation and chalkiness to them,
04:43then our ceramic on top of that is not going to hold on.
04:46It's going to fall off with the foundation.
04:48So it doesn't mean lifetime. It doesn't mean forever.
04:51It means, you know, as long as your foundation is still intact.
04:58Given this process is a preventative measure, the earlier you coat your RV,
05:04the quicker it can deflect heat waves, salt, sand, and gravel scars before they ever show up.
05:11Preserving that factory-fresh finish prior to environmental damage is best.
05:16But if you've already logged some miles,
05:19Mac can still throw down a layer of serious resistance for all those adventures to come.
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05:49The ideal time to bring in for the ceramic coating is when it's brand new.
05:59So the best way to think of it is that our going through our process in the ceramic coating
06:04isn't necessarily to fix the damage that you already have.
06:07It's mostly to help prevent future damage that's going to happen.
06:11And so if you come in brand new, you don't have damage,
06:13and it's going to help prevent it from happening in the first place.
06:17But, you know, if it is older and it still looks great,
06:19then, you know, it's also a good time to bring it in.
06:22So as far as the process goes for when your RV comes in,
06:26time-wise, you're going to either drop off Monday and pick up Wednesday,
06:30or you're going to drop off Wednesday and pick up Friday.
06:32So it's three-day blocks, two nights.
06:34So the steps of the ceramic coating are, first, we wash the trailer.
06:41So you don't have to get it washed in advance or anything like that.
06:44You can have it as filtered as you want.
06:45We'll use a pressure washer with the foam cannon,
06:48and then we will use deionized water to help with water spots.
06:51And then after that, we will go into removing any stickers you want off,
06:55not necessarily decals, but, you know, factory stickers,
06:58personal stickers you might have put on there.
07:00And then following that step is where we'll get into doing our polishing.
07:06And then after that, we will then go over the whole thing with a IPA.
07:10For us, it's usually about a 70% IPA,
07:12and that will then sterilize the whole surface
07:15and clean off any other residue that's on there
07:17and make sure it's, you know, a neutral surface, no MR acids on it.
07:22So that way, you know, when we do our ceramic next,
07:25it will bond properly to it.
07:27When we get into our ceramic application,
07:29it is a hand-applied process,
07:33and it is everything from the roof line,
07:36so not the roof itself, but the roof line,
07:38all the way to the bottom, not the undercarriage.
07:42And in between that, you know, all of the plastics,
07:44all the metals, all of the glass,
07:46you know, the solar panels can be coated.
07:48All of that's going to get done.
07:50But the glass surfaces, such as, like, the windows
07:52and the tempered glass and the solar panels,
07:54it is a one-to-two-year coating
07:57that goes on that little bit different formula.
07:58But it's not our permanent coating on the surfaces.
08:02Following the application,
08:04cleaning is still recommended,
08:06but no longer the chore it once was.
08:09Although dirt and debris continue to make an appearance,
08:12the biggest difference is in how quickly they disappear,
08:16with a simple rinse that easily takes off the road rash
08:19and puts back the sparkle.
08:21The number one thing that I hear people talk about most afterwards
08:25is how clean their RV looks after not washing it.
08:29So some people go a month, six months, even a year without washing it,
08:32and they might hit a little bit of rain or something,
08:35and it looks almost brand new still.
08:37For the diligent team at Master Applied Coatings,
08:42working with RVers isn't just about reinforcing their rigs,
08:46as every series of scuffs and scratches
08:48comes with tales from countless road trips or daring detours.
08:53And while buffing out the damage removes these reminders,
08:57it also marks the start of a new chapter for future memories
09:01protected by a resilient suit of armour,
09:04making Mac a lasting part of the RVing story.
09:07So my favourite part about being an owner in this company
09:11is all of the people I get to work with.
09:15You know, as far as the employees,
09:16but also, you know, all the customers that come in,
09:19you know, hearing their stories,
09:20where they've been, where they're going to go,
09:23you know, everything that's happened with their RV.
09:25That's the best part about this job.
09:27So if anybody's interested in possibly getting an inquiry
09:31or a quote for their RV,
09:32they can contact us through our website.
09:35It's masterappliedcodings.com.
09:37Otherwise, you can give us a call.
09:39We'd be happy to answer at any of our locations
09:41and we can talk about your RV.
09:43We can talk about the age of it,
09:44what needs to be done to it,
09:45and we can kind of go from there.
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10:25Before the miles start to accumulate
10:27or any renovations get made,
10:29life on the road is preceded by a quiet revelation
10:33that suggests there might be another way to live.
10:36The McLaughlins decided to explore their options
10:40with a journey that would take them
10:42far beyond the edges of convention.
10:45They launched into RVing with completely no experience
10:48in a recycled Salem Cobra
10:50that was just good enough
10:52to convince them of a life on wheels.
10:55And it got the job done.
10:57From humble beginnings to living with intention,
11:01this is how one motivated family reimagined
11:04what home could be.
11:08I'm Adam.
11:09I'm Celine.
11:10I'm Joel, and I'm 10.
11:12I'm Zachary, and I'm 8.
11:14I'm Ian, and I'm 6.
11:16September 2017, we lived on the west coast of Florida.
11:19Hurricane Irma was coming through,
11:21and it was supposed to go up the east coast,
11:23and within a couple days,
11:24it shifted to come up the west coast
11:25right through where we lived.
11:27And at the time, it was supposed to be a Category 5,
11:29which is catastrophic.
11:30And so I called Celine at 2 o'clock that afternoon,
11:35and I said, I'm coming home from work early.
11:38I want you to pack everything that matters to you
11:41in Rubbermaid totes.
11:42We're going to leave it in our condo.
11:44I want you to get the boys ready,
11:46pack their overnight bags.
11:47We're going to Canada to my parents' house tonight.
11:50And at that point in time, I thought to myself,
11:52if I have everything that matters to me
11:55in my car right now,
11:57then why couldn't we hit the road?
11:58Why couldn't we live in a travel trailer?
12:01Why, you know, my family and my coffee and my laptop.
12:06And I was all set.
12:07That was everything that mattered to me.
12:08Why couldn't we hit the road?
12:10That was the tipping point for me,
12:12that I went from can we do this to yes,
12:14we have to do this.
12:15It was a little bit nerve-wracking in the beginning, though,
12:19to realize what are we really getting ourselves into
12:23when we have no experience at all,
12:25but we're both pretty adventurous,
12:28so we were up for the challenge.
12:30Celine was pretty picky.
12:31She said, I'm not leaving this first campsite
12:33until I have running water in the kitchen.
12:34And I'm just thinking, like, let's live a little here.
12:38Let's treat this like an adventure.
12:41Definitely with an older trailer,
12:43it was a bit trickier to learn some things
12:46and what was missing in the trailer,
12:47but we didn't give ourselves very much time at all.
12:50Yeah, well, we bought a 1992 trailer
12:54because we wanted to renovate it.
12:55We didn't want a payment every month.
12:57We wanted to pay cash.
12:58And so one of the first things we did
13:00was we painted everything.
13:02We painted all the walls.
13:03We painted all the cabinets.
13:04We replaced the flooring
13:05so it didn't look like vinyl from 1992.
13:09And we redid all the fabrics.
13:10We recovered them all.
13:12So it kind of felt like our space.
13:15You know, even though we weren't buying it new,
13:17it felt fresh for us.
13:19Yeah, we really wanted the boys to feel like,
13:21even though we were moving into such a tiny space,
13:23they really had their own areas in the trailer.
13:26We weren't setting up
13:28and tearing down their bed every night
13:29and we allowed them to pick and choose
13:31what they wanted in their space
13:33just to make it their own
13:34and feel like that was actually
13:36their own little bedroom.
13:38Yeah, and what I like about my bed
13:41is my stuffies are colorful.
13:45While the living quarters got smaller,
13:47the flavors produced in the kitchen
13:49could not be downsized.
13:52As the culinary engine of the family,
13:54Celine found ways to adapt
13:56without compromising her love
13:58of making meals from scratch.
14:01Serving up sweet treats straight out of the oven
14:03and whipping up fragrant dinners in the crock pot,
14:07mom's homemade food remains a steady source of comfort
14:11no matter where they make camp.
14:15Mommy does cooking
14:17and I sometimes help with the cooking
14:20and she makes cookies, bread, brownies,
14:24pretty much everything.
14:25I help mommy make cookies and brownies.
14:28She can make brownies,
14:30she can make cookies, pizza.
14:32You know, one of the first things we talk about
14:34is that possible in a trailer, right?
14:36So we had to figure out
14:37and we had to decide what do we need
14:38and what can we leave behind spaces.
14:40Obviously a constraint.
14:42Right away we really made sure our trailer
14:45had a sufficient amount of storage space
14:47but I did tell Adam right off the bat
14:49that if we were traveling,
14:50my stand mixer was not going to be staying behind
14:53and we both agreed that that was part of our lifestyle
14:56with the way I cook
14:57and make everything fresh for us
14:58but we find it's really not much different
15:01than cooking in a regular kitchen.
15:04It's just cozier.
15:05Yeah.
15:06I might sometimes have to kick the kids out
15:08of the trailer while I'm cooking
15:10because I literally take over half the trailer
15:12but they believe it's worth it
15:15because of what they get to eat after.
15:17Oh, it's worth it.
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15:47Besides their shared sense of exploration
15:50and carefree sense of humor,
15:52the family also connects
15:54by road schooling across the map.
15:57When traveling,
15:58geography lessons happen in real time
16:01and the classroom transforms
16:03with the surroundings.
16:05Wildlife hikes,
16:06museum pit stops,
16:07and road trip reading sessions
16:09have taught the boys
16:10that education isn't confined to four walls
16:14but scattered throughout every place they visit.
16:18I'm in sixth grade.
16:21And Zach is in third grade.
16:24And Ian, you are in?
16:26Kindergarten.
16:27It's so much fun teaching the kids
16:29as we go to different places.
16:31There's no better education
16:33in teaching them the history of an area
16:35and then getting to actually experience that place.
16:42We've realized now
16:43that there's so much opportunity
16:45outside of books for them to learn.
16:47And so we do purchase memberships
16:50to science centers
16:50and national parks.
16:53And we have those passes
16:54so that we can have the opportunity
16:56for them to learn outside of just books.
16:59And that's really made a difference for us
17:02because it's so much more
17:04than just working in a textbook.
17:06It's seeing the world
17:07and learning from those experiences.
17:11And on our travel days,
17:12we encourage them
17:14to do a lot of reading in the car,
17:16but they also get some downtime
17:17with watching movies.
17:19And we make a lot of stops
17:21while we're on the road
17:22and find little places
17:24to explore on the way.
17:25But a lot of the time,
17:26the adventure is really
17:27in just going somewhere
17:29we haven't been before.
17:30And once we get there,
17:31just setting out on our own
17:32to explore and see
17:34what we find on our own.
17:38I really like Drumheller
17:40in Alberta.
17:42I like America.
17:44I like Big Bend National Park
17:47because that was the only national park
17:50where I could actually convince Daddy
17:52to climb a mountain
17:54that was five miles each way,
17:57like up and down.
17:58There's actually, like, no path.
18:01Like, it's pretty much just rock
18:02and you have to, like, climb up the rock.
18:07And of course, Celine's like,
18:08Daddy would love to do that with you, Joel.
18:11And so Joel was out on this hunt
18:13to go up Emery Peak,
18:14like, as if that's a fair trade, right?
18:16Like, I'm doing a seven-hour hike
18:18and then I run into a bear
18:20and I get home
18:21and they're doing glitter glue
18:23and baking brownies.
18:25Next time I'm staying home
18:26to do glitter glue and brownies,
18:27we'll send Celine up the mountain.
18:29Yes.
18:30For the McLaughlins,
18:32RVing isn't just a break from real life.
18:34It is real life
18:36with a rhythm that's ever-changing
18:38and a backyard that fluctuates
18:40every few weeks.
18:42But inside their RV,
18:44there's comfort, routine,
18:46and a deep sense of togetherness
18:48that will never waver.
18:50Proof that a stable home
18:52doesn't have to stay
18:53in just one place.
18:56RVing is really fun
18:58because you get to go
18:59to new places every day.
19:01Like, every day
19:03there's new things to do,
19:05new things to see.
19:07And almost all of the time
19:09that we've been traveling
19:10at every campground,
19:11we've found friends to play with
19:13or things to do
19:14at the campground.
19:16And we met a friend
19:18on the day before today.
19:21They have Pokemon cards
19:23and they like to play with us.
19:26And it's really fun
19:27because you get to see
19:28all the places.
19:30It's like you can go everywhere
19:32and see all these cool
19:33national parks
19:34and climb mountains.
19:36When regularly,
19:37when we lived in Florida,
19:39it was just the same thing
19:40every day.
19:41Do you want to go
19:41to the Imaginarium?
19:43Do you want to go
19:43to the library?
19:45Do you want to go
19:45to the Science Center?
19:47Do you want to do this?
19:49And when you travel,
19:51you can hike,
19:51you can see nature,
19:53there's beautiful sunsets,
19:56waterfalls most of the time.
19:58So we pretty much
19:59for not doing the same things
20:00over and over and over.
20:03It's really fun.
20:04I love it.
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