Keeps The Dirt Outside- Neat Feet mounts to steps or floors with included mounting screws enableing efficient cleaning of shoes and boots. Necessity is the mother of invention, and people have been trying to solve the problem of getting dirt and mud off of shoes and boots for decades. “Boot Scrapers” came first…these were often heavy cast iron pieces that served to “scrape” a layer of mud off of a shoe or boot, but they did little to remove embedded mud and dirt form the cracks, crevices and lugs of shoes and boots. (B&W images of a “scraper”Ingenious types sometimes cobble together pieces of ordinary street brooms into various configurations…and some of these worked quite a bit better than scrapers. But brooms and brushes were (and quite often still are) made of wood. Wood rots, so there was still an inherent weakness in the designs. Neat Feet was conceived in the Pacific Northwest, an area known for rain and all that comes with it. First, it was made of white (the only color available at the time) plastic. It sold well, despite the fact that it was cosmetically quite basic. Later, green plastic was available and the product looked better (and sold better) in the new deep green color. But there was still a basic flaw in the product, it was constructed with the weakest joinery that exists; the “butt joint”. The butt joint in not only cosmetically unsightly, it is the weakest of all joinery as it depends entirely on the strength of the fasteners for structural integrity. A chance meeting with a one-time automotive designer changed all that. With a little help from some CAD design software, and a very early version of a 3-D printer…the current version of Neat Feet was born. It had: - No metal to rust - No wood to rot - No visible or weak joinery