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How to Application Decorative Concrete Flooring ?

How to Application Decorative Concrete Flooring ?

Concrete is the floor of the future

The movement to reduce and to recycle is growing rapidly with each passing year. As people's view of the world changes, new trends and products tend emerge out of new thinking. While always trying to be on the cutting edge of decorative concrete flooring industry, we try new things and methods to produce unique floor finishes over the existing concrete flooring that is not just environmentally friendly floor, but rather a decorative concrete floor being the choice for it's appearance and longevity and then environmental benefits of decorative concrete flooring. As such the future trend of hard flooring is concrete.

The numerous options available to turn structual concrete flooring into stunning show pieces, why wouldn't a rational decision maker consider a decorative concrete floor as the first option?

People that have never considered decorative concrete floor as primary option should consider the possibilities and the benefits of having the structual concrete floor slabs processed into various decorative flooring finishes as the new concrete products, knowledge, and technology enabled a company such as us to prosper while helping to reduce the size of the human foot print on the environment by doing our part in producing decorative concrete flooring in Toronto, and Southern Ontario area.

Recently had the opportunity to install a beautiful metallic epoxy finish floor for a couple of our clients. Metallic epoxy is unique decorative concrete finish with flair. Metallic epoxy floor finish would make any professional services office look like a million dollars! The shimmering beauty brings out elegence, depth and unique color refractions from metallic colors that are added to the 100% solid clear epoxy finish.

Interior designers looking for something special for their clients would be well served to check out the sophisticated look of metallic colored epoxy flooring. Colors can be customized to produce one of kind coloration schemes and to suite any high end decor home or business.

Concrete floors with many cracks and/or holes in concrete slab can quickly be repaired and resurfaced with the metallic epoxy coloration system to produce a fault free floor finish because of the excellent camoflouge properties of metallic epoxy floor system. If you already have a decorative concrete floor that requires cleaning and maintenance service such as company like the Toronto based http://www.servuclean.com as it is always pays to call in the professional to restore your decorative concrete floor back to mint condition.

Concrete Floor Polishing by Design | Toronto & GTA -

Concrete Floor Polishing by Design Toronto & GTA -

The amazing concrete flooring craze that took shape and popularity all over Manhatten and New York city's finest Lofts, California homes and high end condos is here and now taking Toronto and the GTA by storm.

Concrete floor polishing has quickly gaining massive popularity in residential and commercial marketplace and for many good reasons I might add. Concrete floors when polished have similar characteristics as that can be found in a polished granite or marble slab, with all of the imperfections, veining, and varies degree of aggregate exposed during the grinding and polishing of a concrete slab. The final end result is a polished concrete floor that exhibits unique rich natural texture with character and authenticity as any high end polished marble, or granite slab would have, but polished concrete is composed of recycled earth materials, and will cost fraction compared to any high end floor available on market today.

My experience visiting many job sites and talking to people in the construction industry that more and more people in the Northern climate regions are opting for radiant heated sub-floors when renovating or when buying a new home for the energy savings, and more importantly, comfort. Decorative concrete floor finishes such as stained concrete or polished concrete is an ideal choice for both costs, asthetics and does not take additional height to have a decorative concrete floor finish as this sometimes can pose a problem such as basements where ceilling height can be an issue.

If you haven't opened your mind to polished concrete maybe its time you should join the growing wave of people praising the benefits of polished concrete in their homes and all types of business establishments.

Polished concrete can come in array of translucent colour options to personalize any polished concrete floor to your own decor and taste or liking.

Things to Know about Concrete Polishing in Advance

Polished concrete is becoming extremely popular finish virtually in every type building whether residential, industrial, or commercial establishment is the ideal choice. What many people are not aware of is that not every concrete floor slab can achieve the optimum appearance.

A professional concrete floor polishing company have many tricks in its tool box to fix certain imperfections when found during the grinding or polishing process, but what no polishing company cannot do is perform magic. Unlike going out to granite shop for a new granite countertop or floor, where you can pick and choose the granite slab which has been polished and ready to be cut to size to sit in the kitchen, the concrete slab that is in place that you want polished is what the concrete polishing company has to work to get the best polishing results out of this slab. Having said that, it has been out experience working in the greater Toronto area, is that better than 93% of concrete slabs we encounter will produce a beautiful polished concrete floor. We have also observed a new trend mostly in lofts and older office building in downtown Toronto, which originally started and became very popular in New York and now our Toronto based clients actually prefer lots of imperfections we find in concrete slabs that are older than 60 + years, as it adds character and modern charm to the appearance of the floor.

Many new builders, architects, home owners who are involved in building new projects with polished concrete floors as part of their plan, are not aware that there is some planning required for their cement mix which will form the floor to be polished. Below we will discuss things to be aware of when planning polished concrete floors in new buildings or homes.

Although currently there are no specific industry standards specifying concrete tolerances specific to polished concrete, the concrete polishing professionals are coming up with their own set of standards to obtain an optimum quality polished concrete floor. On new concrete installations that will ultimately receive the polishing process, certain criteria needs to be met so the polishing can be performed in a uniform quality.

On new concrete installations, the concrete mix design is critical for optimum end results of polishing. Using a cement-rich concrete (typically 3200 to 3,500 psi) provides a dense surface free of voids for the polishing process. Usually water-reducing admixtures keep a low water cement ratio without jeopardizing the workability during the concrete pouring and placement. Wet curing of the new slab is an excellent way of curing but many times is not practical. If this is the case, dissipating liquid curing compounds application is a very good way to cure the concrete floor slab. Should any remaining curing compound that does not dissipate prior to polishing is usually easily removed during the initial coarse-grinding phase prior to the polishing process commencement.

Equally as important to the appropriate cement mix design is how the cement is poured and finished. The flatness and levelness of the concrete substrate is critical not only for a uniform polishing finish, but also how the project is priced. Floors that have excessive highs and lows will require a tremendous amount more grinding, increasing labour costs as well as the costs of diamond tooling which is required to grind and polish.

According to concrete industry standards, finished concrete slab shall have a minimum Floor Flatness rating of minimum of 40. Industry standard for terrazzo flooring is no more variance than 1/4 in. in a 10-ft. span, which could apply to polished concrete as well. If the new poured concrete floor is machine troweled with walk-behind equipment, it is imperative that the contractor is aware that the slab will serve as polished concrete and to not leave any indentations or boot marks behind since they are not easily removed during the grinding or polishing phase.

The most common methods of colouring concrete floor which will be polished can either be integrally colouring the concrete mix at the source or dyeing the surface after the fact after the grinding phase or prior to the polishing phase. By far the easiest and most controllable method of coloured concrete is to have the cement mix integrally coloured by the cement mix supplier prior to the pour. Most integral colour is either in the liquid or powder form and added at the ready-mix batch plant and then mixed for a specified time. Colour loads for integral colour should never be smaller than 3 cu. yds. for colour consistency. Coloured aggregate or crushed glass can be added to the concrete mix or hand seeded into the top layer of the mix by the new concrete slab finisher and power troweled. The grinding and polishing process will reveal the underlying aggregate placed in the mix.