Are you ready to transform your space with durable, stunning floors? Welcome to our quick guide on Concrete Polishing, the ultimate solution for beautiful and long-lasting surfaces. Whether you’re upgrading your home, office, or commercial property, polished concrete delivers a flawless finish that combines style and practicality. Let’s explore what makes this process a game-changer for any space!
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“When people think of polished concrete, they think of a hard, sealed, treated floor that you might see in a grocery store or some of the larger Costcos and Sam’s Clubs and airports. What we do is we take the virgin contract, concrete, or the original concrete, whether it’s ever been used before. Sometimes, if there’s been tile, or carpet, or glue, or other types of flooring on it, there’s some prep work it involved.
It’s like sanding a piece of wood. You start with a rough set of diamonds, and we use diamonds to grind our concrete. Then you open it up with the rough ones, and then you sand it or grind it with finer and finer diamonds until you achieve a smooth profile.
Concrete under a microscope is – it’s jagged on top. It has a lot of peaks and valleys. As you cut off those peaks and the light has a better opportunity to reflect straight up without getting caught into the little peaks and valleys, that’s where your organic shine from polished concrete comes in.
Along with that is a densifier. A densifier is it’s usually lithium that comes. Sometimes it’s sodium or potassium, and it grows crystals into the pores of the concrete. Concrete is basically a hard sponge and it’s porous.
What we do is we cut the cream off. We fill in the little pores with a densifier, either – most likely lithium but sometimes sodium or potassium, and then that puts a hard dustproof cap on the concrete. There’s a dye involved. We dye it in that same phase right before the densifier, and then for a higher shine, then we continue grinding the concrete with finer and finer diamonds until the level of shine is achieved.
We do a grind and seal, which is a low shine. We do a 200-grit polish, which is an industrial. We call industrial finish, which is a low shine too, little bit more shiny than grind and seal. Then you go to 400s or 800s, 1600s until it almost looks like you’re looking at a piece of granite on your floor.
We had one project here in Denver that, as we were doing our floors, there was – finishing our floors, we take pictures along the process and send them to our customer. There was a fire in the ceiling. One of the electrical outlets was wired wrong. When they went to mediation, they actually took to court our picture of our floor because you could see through the reflection of the floor that it was wired wrong up above, so it can get really shiny.”
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