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Why Commercial Polished Concrete Floors Contractor Johnson City Are Raving

By Clara E. Cordasco


In days gone by, concrete flooring was industrial, functional and cheap. The unattractive trademark dusty grey flooring has come a long way since then and commercial polished concrete floors contractor Johnson City are winning at changing the perception of concrete floors. Now a beautiful, stylish finish, people are clamouring to install polished concrete floors.

Homes and commercial properties are turning to concrete flooring as a viable solution. Even if there was existing flooring such as tiles or wooden floors, these can be easily removed and the concrete below buffed and finished to present a durable, beautiful finish. Durable, gleaming, easy to clean and maintain as well as attractive. That sounds like the perfect flooring solution, especially in high traffic zones such as restaurants, shopping malls and office buildings.

Retail, industrial, hospitality and food service markets are eagerly embracing the trend. Worn cement can be resurfaced and polished up without creating too much surrounding damage with dust and grit. New surfaces are just as quickly installed. The job is finished in a short time, allowing for minimum disruption to the business.

If you select the basic finish, or opt to add in a colour powder, your floor is still going to look fabulous. Polished and shining like it's coated in water, the finished surface will not scale off or crumble. It will last in its condition for years and years, remaining as good looking as the day it was completed.

When the mixture is poured and levelled, the rough stones are covered by the smooth cement. It's a matter of choosing whether or not to start grinding and if so, how much will be done. Taking the choice to polish and not grind is normally done at this phase. Whether you selected to add a colour to your floor or not, you will have a result of a gleaming, glossy floor with a uniquely patterned finish as no two floors can be the same.

If you opt to start buffing and grinding to reveal the aggregate within the floor, the next stage will be a light grinding which will reveal only the tips of the little stones, leaving you with a kind of salt and pepper result. This is not always an even finish though as the stones may not always be at exactly the same depth beneath the top layer.

The last stage will expose the stones in their full form. The floor will be ground to the point that all the stones are revealed, showing the variety of colours, shapes and textures leaving you with a floor finish that is completely unique.

The floors will then be buffed to a high sheen and the finished floor will look like it's got a layer of water on it, but be uniquely slip resistant at the same time. Areas that see a lot of foot traffic will eventually erode the surface, as they would on tiles or wooden flooring. The absolute beauty of this product, however, is that it simply needs to be polished up during the course of maintenance to get back to the initial look.




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