Polished Concrete Floors

In 2013 we bought our first Diamond Polishing machine and began using it to create Polished Concrete Floors, since the first purchase we have evolved and currently use Lavina machines in size ranging from 20 to 30 inches and weighing between 500 and 1000 pounds. These floors are created using the machine to sand the concrete floor surface usually beginning with 100 grit diamond resin pads and progressing up through grits to 1500 always doubling the grit on each pass of the machine. There is typically a concrete densifier applied after the 100-grit pass to harden and seal the surface, the densifier we use is supplied by Ameripolish under the label of 3DHS. Once the densifier is applied and visibly dry, we continue to the next grit up smoothing and polishing the concrete floor surface. If color is chosen for the project, it would be applied after the 400-grit pass and could be an acetone-based dye stain supplied by Ameripolish or even acid-stained using Kemiko acid-stain. Once the stain is visibly dry and cleaned, we then progress to 800 grit diamond polish pads before applying a stain guard product also supplied by Ameripolish under the label of 3D SPE to seal and protect the polished concrete floor before finally buffing to a high gloss 1500 grit shine. While starting at 100 grit, referred to as a cream or surface polish we can also use metal bonded diamond tooling (70 grit) to remove the top layer of cement exposing fine sands (salt and pepper polish) or using a lower grit tool ranging from 16-30 grit and cut enough cement off to expose aggregate (stones) before moving on to the polishing process. Whatever choice you make you can rest assured we have the equipment and experience to give you a very durable polished concrete floor, reach out today for a free quote for residential or commercial polished concrete, to date we have completed over 1,000,000 square feet of this flooring! If you are looking for a concrete polishing company, send us a message.