Concrete Polishing inside a home. We made this room shine!
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Polished concrete is my favourite style of flooring, regardless of money spent, and this finish is stellar. Props to the original masonry workers and Concrete Floor Solutions.
Good to see polished concrete being used in USA homes more often
Genius! Yes, family will have years of easy care and unique charm to this room. They will always be grateful to your company!
What a professional set up...the constant monitoring and adjusting demonstrates true class and what a finish.
Amazing! That floor will serve them well for many years to come 👌👌👌
Wow, I had no idea you could polish concrete like that. Amazing.
So great to see a Tradesman who takes obvious pride in his work, and rightly so! We do a slightly difference here in NZ though very similar result. Thanks for sharing mate
Amazing cart for hand polishing. We do Walmart renovations and the amount of HP is ridiculous. Thankfully this saves my back and time swapping pads seeing as it has the tray. Y'all know what's up. I've seen very few others with those life savers. Shout out to all you concrete cowboys out there.
Beautiful shined like a mirror excellent work
Hard work bringing excellent results. Well done sir.
Your detailed commentary 👌🏻 another great video!
Having a Flooring company myself, I just love the Americans, they have amazing skills and equipment. Stunning guys!!
Great work. The floor looks beautiful.
I love how this looks, reminds me of terrazzo. I've always had my heart set on epoxy terrazzo, with the cove along the wall.
Attention to detail...you are the master instructor!! OG DA BOSS!!!
Turned that floor into a luxury item haha, great work !
I learned lots of things.thanks for sharing your nolage with us,
You did an excellent job 👍🏻
Stunning job guys !!!
Great video
I appreciate the compliment
Incredible work
Very impressive results.
Y’all are so pro! We DIY our best today so this hurts to watch lol
Truely amazing 💪👌
Best I have ever seen you are all great craftsman beautiful to see.
Thank you sir!
You are amazing!
excellent work
Looks like marble I wish you guys were in Texas as I said before. Fantastic
Nice job 👍🏾
Cheapest way to do a foundation, its strong, the floor is included and it looks good too. But if not doing precasted slabs the entire foundation pour requires it to be done in one shot so you need a cement pouring machine, so you would have to contract this out, which is probably a good idea anyway for the most important part of your house, by far. Then you could build on top yourself with much less risk. Better than wood foundations because slabs are cheaper and last longer. Of course if your terrain allows it.
Beautiful job, & surly very expensive too!
Very nice Video , Thank You.
Would like to see detail on how you handle corners and edges not accessible by the large machine.
❤beautiful I love it
I do marble restoration with one 17" swing machine. The amount of equipment you guys have is insane. WOW
So how much does it really cost approx?
Better tools = better/quicker job. Better/quicker jobs = more jobs. More jobs = more money.
As the saying goes, it takes money to make money.
I wish I can find someone like you that allows me to work for free just so I can learn the skills and get the experience.
Great workmanship and very professional sir. And the attention to details amazing
Its nice idea👍👍👍👍👍
Beautiful work, thanks for sharing with us! I feel like I'm your apprentice except I just sit here on my bottom and watch haha
Its much less work that way. Lol
Thank you for watching.
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@@ConcreteFloorSolutions couldn't you just thicken up that material with some of the concrete dust? You wouldn't use as much material and it would somewhat match the color? I do epoxy, not much of a polishing guy. You guys do great work man, keep it up!
Great videos. I've been a concrere finisher for a few years was wondering what finish do you prefer we trowel it. Is a light fuzz better or for a burned finish. Thanks
Thank you
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Spectacularly informative video, which absolutely convinced me NOT to attempt such a project myself. Also, I can't believe that you don't offer the special squeeze bottles for sale from your online store.
I don't know if I would ever recommend a homeowner try a DIY polishing project either. There are so many variables involved I just can't see how you could be prepared to do this without owning all of the correct equipment. Diamond grits, diamond compounds etc. The squeeze bottles are pretty easily accessible and quite frankly I can't compete with the pricing. Thank you for watching
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions what does a job like this cost per. sq. ft. ?
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions may I ask how much per sqft ?
You can find these squeeze bottles in the kitchen isle from any supermarket. It’s with the spatulas and kitchen timers and measuring cups
I love that house. Wasn't sure how polished concrete would look with all that old wood but it looks great.
I think barn wood belongs in barns. All those crack in that wood is just placed for dust to collect and bugs to hide. If it was clean and smooth wood, I would love it, but that old crap looks like old crap.
I don’t know much about concrete but I am trying to learn how to do something like this to a car shop I am turning into an apartment. I had nice level floors but I had to cut them up for the rough in plumbing. Now they look hideous.
Do you have any ideas on how to put a layer of concrete over the top to hide the cut marks and the new concrete?
I thought about a self leveling layer but would I still be able to get that color and shine as in this video? To see the rock and texture in the concrete?
Also do you need to put sealer on top of the concrete floor so it doesn’t stain or take in moisture?
I would love any advise and insight!
Thanks for the video!
This is sorta of what was done to many homes in Florida during the 60s and 70s . They called it terrazzo floors. Only back then was it actually cheaper to do than traditional flooring. Like every other trade, the price has skyrocketed over the years ! Two years ago, we purchased a fixer upper and got quotes from most of the trades for renovation projects, and we were shocked at how much they wanted! We expected prices in the thousands but what we got was prices in the tens of thousands! It was at the moment we decided to do 90% of our renovation ourselves! It wasn't that we couldn't afford it. It was more of a "I'm not paying that much out of the principle of it all"! Seriously, one guy ,a drywaller, wanted almost $20 grand to sheetrock two small guest rooms and a guest bath and a small 5-foot hallway that was between the guest rooms and guest bath! I litterly laughed in his face and walked him out of our house! The electrician, plumber, and general renovation contractor had similar quotes that we laughed at as well! After adding up all the quotes we received, they totaled more than the house cost us! The number one reason most of them said for the high quotes was taxes,taxes,taxes!! I feel for contractors ,I really do ! The government has become way out of control lately!! It's all of our faults as Americans because, for whatever reason, the wrong people are elected into office because we as citizens have let our government get out of control by not paying attention!! Most of us are more concerned with our own little lives and have ignored this problem way too long! Want proof? Just look at the current administration! It's all the proof you need! Smh....
Just got to the point of "cooling the tooling"....
Have you ever done a wet polish? Goes sooo much faster. You also have an easier time not creating those ridges on your edges...
What's the difference between a guard and a sealer? Also, does the burnisher have the 1500s?
Looks great, any idea on how to do walls and ceilings? I build a pool like a cave with big rocks like a maya ruin. But its rough cement. And I want it polished like the floor u guys do here. Anyway it looks great.
I couldn’t even imagine how difficult polishing walls and ceilings would be. If you figure it out, let me know
You should be doing the patching to the pinholes after the first grind because it opens up other pin holes sometimes
If they agree and want to pay for a grout coat, we do.
What do you use for your grout coat when you do them?
This floor with area rugs is perfect for where I live. I absolutely hate carpeting. In my passive solar house the sun heats the bare concrete in winter. That heats the house all night long. In summer the sun never hits the floors so they stay cool.
Hi Mr, I don't see how to polish edging area? Can you introduce how to make same teksture and gloss middle and edge area?
What was the progression of the sandpaper (I have to take glue off first). How long did you think the whole project took? I have 3000 sf to do.
Amazing finish. How do you get into the corners?
A 4" hand grinder
Our new slab is a few months old but it has some spalling (holes). We want to seal the concrete(not polish or epoxy). Would you recommend using the Poly grade joint filler and CSF 343 on holes and only seal the concrete?
The CFS-343 concretefloorsolutions.com/product/cfs-343-fast-set-epoxy-crack-filler-fast-set-epoxy-spall-repair/ can be used on spalling and holes. You can use the CFS-830 for joints concretefloorsolutions.com/product/830-joint-filler/ , it is clear.
If you only wanted to seal the concrete, you can use an acrylic sealer CFS-8400 concretefloorsolutions.com/product/cfs-8400-clear-water-based-acrylic-sealer/ for a wet look. It is not as durable as epoxy, but it will seal the concrete.
How did you polished the edges we didn’t see that??
Love the results. I wish the sound quality was more consistent.
Hello sir, what is the name of the solution used to remove black spots?
Love the show…What is the first grit you go around the walls with on the hand grinder.Is it high speed grinder or what please?
I use the Hilti DG-150 with the Hilti general purpose wheel, it doesn't tell you the grit, but I would guess it's around 100. I use high speed on hard concrete, low speed on the soft concrete.
Can you tell me where you purchased dual component battery operated caulk gun?
Great job! Maybe an unusual question, but is it possible to do something similar with a poured concrete wall?
I would assume it's possible using a hand-held sander/polisher.
What’s the cost compared to regular flooring and what’s the long term maintenance with this flooring?
Hi Jason, I watched this video 3 times now and have to say: it is one of the most satisfying results I have seen.
2 questions: you scraped the 343 filled holes in this video and in other videos you grind over these areas after „repairing“ them. Is it like: scrape it when you polish the floor and grind it when you do an epoxy floor ?
Second question: would it also be possible to leave the joints completely open (without filling them) ?
Thanks a lot ! You and Jeff are a great team.
Thank you for the compliment.
Normally, we just grind the surface after we do the repairs. Without watching this video again, I probably made repairs to areas that I didn’t know existed before we started grinding, if I would have ground the surface after I made the repairs late in the game, I would probably damage the previous polishing I have already done, that’s why we scraped instead of ground.
Yes, you can leave the joints open, you just need to be careful that course abrasives don’t fall into the joint while polishing, you will pull them out with the grinder, every pass and re-scratch the floor. That is why we always fill joints when we polish.
We did rename the crack filler, CFS-fast set crack filler, here is a link to the material if you were interested concretefloorsolutions.com/store/repair-materials/epoxy-crack-filler/
So I re-watched the video because I was curious myself. You can scrape that crack filler if it is at the perfect time between liquid and solid in a gel state. Since we were scraping joints at the same time, we just used the scraper to shave the top of the crack filler material also. I typically don’t do that, but the timing was perfect with the other repairs. 99% of the time we just grind right over the crack filler
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions Jason you are the man to count on !
Thank you so much for your detailed answer.
This may also be a ridiculous question but since the corners are so much harder to grind, is it absolutely out of the question to grind after the slab has been poured and before framing? I am guessing there are multiple issues with this (IE. Keeping clean, weather exposure, needs cure time, etc). Is there not a sequence that makes some kind of sense like to complete most of the grinding after the slab has cured and then do the fine grit/buff/resin after drywall is in? Great work and video by the way.
You can do that, but it requires another mobilization. if you come back it will cost more money..It would be extremely rare for someone to pay more for a second mobilization.
Does the densifier replace a final sealer? Is a sealer needed?
we apply a lithium silicate glossing agent (guard) and then burnish the floor. It is not a straight densifier we apply when we are done. The densifier is simply a hardener only without glossing capabilities.
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What is the purpose of the joints and doesn't filling them defeats the purpose?
Great videos BTW!
The purpose of the joint is so when the concrete shrinks (all concrete shrinks) it cracks in a nice straight line. The joint filler is a semi rigid material that allows for some movement in case it does shrink more, it will flex with the movement.
The reason we fill the joints is so dirt does not lay in the joints, it simply makes it easy to clean.
Question why not fill in the area along the concrete and wood area the customer put in ?
are you running a densifier sodium based or lithium based? and also what was the last resin bond you used on this floor?
lithium, this video was shot a while ago, I believe it was 400 grit and then we switched to diamond impregnated pads
Looks amazing! We're just about to pour the concrete floor for our basement and I'm considering doing it polished like this. Is there a specific type of concrete that is needed for this, or will your average basement floor concrete work?
You could try PSI 5 cement ratio
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Great looking work. Learning a lot from your channel.
Did you skip the 1500 grit pad on this one and go straight to the 3000 clean up pad?
Thx.
Great job! Doesn't the finished floor need some sort of sealant to prevent the concrete from absorbing stains etc?
At 21:28 he said he put on a 'densifier' on the floor. I guess that would prevent anything from being absorbed.
Yes. LS Guard sealer, and then burnishing it.
Very nice look. What is the long term care like for a floor like this?
Sweep it and a damp mopIf needed. Easiest floor to maintain.
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions thank you for quick reply. Love the channel and the work you do. Making me really want polished concrete residential floors.
Thinking about doing this to my 2900 sqft ranch home on a slab. Its current flooring is outdated, carpet and old tiles. I've refinished my basement floor with black polycuramine and refinished hardwood floors before, but this is a much bigger area than I've ever done and it's going in my whole house. I'd like it to flow into the pool area, as well as the attached garage. Have you done anything like this before? It seems like a good idea in my head, but realistically, I don't know if it is going to match up with the garage and pool area. Wondering if I do it all at the same time, prior to changing the grit, or if I break it up by part of the house and turn it into three different jobs. Thoughts?
That would be an extreme undertaking for somebody who does not have experience.
You may have different colored concrete in every room, you may have what they call ghosting on the floors which is stains from the tile. It could be a complete disaster. I would approach extremely cautiously. That would be horrible to do that much work and have it look terrible when you're done.
You are totally at the mercy of the concrete that is there which is unknown at this point.
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions how durable is the finish?
Just a pro tip for when filling cracks try using a card or trowel and scrape excess material down that crack instead of wasting all that material And I hope you guys are washing and taking all that dust off before you lay the guard other than that great video
They want excess material pooling ontop. As it dries it will shrink and pull the material down into the crack which would make them have to do a second coat.
I don't think these guys need a "pro tip" from a random person on youtube. I'm pretty sure they know exactly what they are doing.
How do you finish the perpendicular corners with that round machine?
We use hand grinders
Hi: Our concrete floor is over an in-floor heating system. First leveled using a long 2x4, then floated for a few hours, and finally hand troweled way into the middle of the night. It was done mid-winter, above freezing. A typical DIY basic $$ project. It looked pretty nice. It was done in sections because of the size of the hose trucks in our rural area. The sections were divided based on entries into the kitchen, hallways and bedroom area. That mostly worked fine. When main front areas were pored, we rented basic polishing equipment available in our area. We ran it to about 150 and it looked great. We did this to each area, and covered with construction paper and sheets of plywood. As the project progressed we are now ready to do some final polishing, then use densifiers. All the windows and doors are in, so this is a reasonably warm space as we enter the fall. Questions: What brand lithium silicate densifier do you recommend? Do you use the nano type or not? We will probably polish the floor up to about 200 or so but not as shiny as this job, which is amazing. We want to put a carnauba wax on it once construction is done. Do you have experience with this? I don't want it really shiny or slippery and I have read that the carnauba isn't crazy slippery. Any thoughts on that. I don't need it really shiny and don't want to use a sealer if possible. Thanks so much for these amazing videos and what you have shared. You are helping a lot of folks. And you do great work for those who can afford to hire you. We appreciate you sharing your knowledge, cuz otherwise we would just have a crappy gray concrete floor. Thanks.☺PS Please answer if you have time cuz we will be tackling the next steps shortly.😱
I don't have any experience with the wax at all, we use a lithium densifier. concretefloorsolutions.com/product/cfs-7937-concrete-densifier/
i watched your previous video where you polish an office but crazecracks came out however in this one there was no such case ..any idea about that?love your work:)
I always say concrete is predictably unpredictable. Every slab is different, every load of concrete is slightly different. Craze cracks can occur for multiple reasons. Could be high heat or wind blowing across the surface causing it to dry prematurely and craze crack during the original pour. Either way, these are some of the conditions you need to be willing to accept if you want polished concrete. Thanks for watching
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions thanks a lot man, helps a ton ..one more thing do you use the same equipments that are used for polishing marble and terrazo flooring?
@@gauravchauhan4608 typically terrazo is polished using terrco grinders, but you can use planetary grinders also
How much do you typically charge per square foot?
Typically $4.00 for a large job that is wide open up to $10 per square foot if there are little rooms involved. Stain is an add on. It also depends on job location, joints, cracks, repairs etc.
Great video been think about incorporating the concrete flooring into my current janitorial floor care business. What’s the average cost per a square foot if you don’t mind me asking? We have contracts to maintain the concrete floors but I want to get into the grinding and cutting like you do.
Cost typically ranges between $2.50 and $3.50 per square foot for materials. Here is a link to our floor kits.
concretefloorsolutions.com/product-category/epoxy-floor-kits/
If you have any questions at all, email me directly jason@Concretefloorsolutions.com
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions Thank you very much.
Do you start the process from direct concrete floor or from terrazzo chippings. if concrete please what grade of concrete
We start from bare concrete, i believe this was 4,000lb mix, nothing special added.
What is the maintenance for the homeowner? Looking to have this done for basement
Clean with a damp mop or sweep it, that is it. There is nothing that can go wrong with it, it's not a coating.
The only issues you run into in a basement is somebody needs to carry a 1000 pound grinder down the steps, unless you have a walk out
You didnt put any sealer before burnishing?
We applied a lithium silicate guard first.
Can I deep clean concrete floors that have some kind of dull shine and buff them out to bring back the polish?
I would say possibly. All Concrete reacts differently.
Looks very nice. But I can see that concrete polishing is a laborious job and expensive...I should go straight with epoxy coating floor.
I've watched a few of your videos and it doesn't look like there's typically a grouting step, do you find that your customers prefer a more natural look?
We've been pretty lucky with the residential work. Most of the concrete is in very good condition and does not need a grout coat. We will offer it as an option if we run into very porous concrete.
We will grout if the surface is porous. The large dealership (black stain) video was grouted. Yes, I find most customers like the natural look.
so i have a question, if i do this at my house will it lower the value or is the same as if i have tiles
I really can't answer that, it really falls on the opinion of whoever is buying it.
If it's done extremely well, I would think it would add to the value. If it turns out to be a train wreck it would lose value.
what model dewalt gun is that. never seen the dual component one
Good question, I've spent more than one hour looking for it and I can even find it on Dewalt's website.
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Do you know how they got the different shades of grey in the concrete?
That is all natural concrete, just the randomness of concrete itself.
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions thanks for the reply. Excellent video and such a great result!
When filling the cracks with the low viscosity crack filler will the overflow stain the concrete ? Also does that type of crack filler accept stain?
The low viscosity epoxy will penetrate into the concrete and leave stains depending how hard, soft or porous your concrete is. If you are polishing concrete, fill the cracks first and then begin your grinding process which will grind deep enough to remove the stains. This material typically does not take stain very well, solvent-based stains will stain a bit, water-based stains will not.
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions Ok, thank you! Also another question , can you grind through craze cracks( medium aggregate grind) I looked at a job recently and a couple 4'x4' spots had them and I want to prepare the customer as to what to expect. Will be only my 3rd polish job so I'm still learning. Thanks again
@@1stainless you will still see the craze cracks after you polish. It is imperative that you explain to the customer that it is an organic floor and part of the character of the concrete. It is absolutely out of your control what is within the concrete. They need to be willing to accept inconsistencies within the concrete that are out of your control.
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions Thanks for your reply. I've watched your videos lots and appreciate the input. Some valuable info on preparing customers is key on expectations. I pay attention to your comments when you mention customers and brief descriptions of what you have gone over with them. Do you put in wrighting on your estimate some of these expectations ? Eg, possible cracking recurring through a coating... or something like that. A video on how you prepare customers might be pretty interesting as it's a big part of any job. Thanks again
@@1stainless If you email me, I will send you my exact disclaimer I put on all proposals. My email address is jason@concretefloorsolutions.com
How long has the concrete cured before you polished it?
At least 28 days.
Fantastic job!
I have a quote for natural concrete polishing my garage floor, which is $600 more than a quote to epoxy the floor with a 5 layer full broadcast flakes. Is a concrete polished floor worth that much more than the epoxy job?
Thanks for the great videos.
Well, I can tell you it is MUCH more labor intensive to polish a floor and requires extremely expensive equipment. The negative of polishing a garage floor is its not oil stain resistant like epoxy. If that helps.. We typically charge more for polishing also.
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions what is the price on the Apoxsee and flakes on three car garage
@@JavierRODRIGUEZ-cr4pm for the product only? or installed? we do both. Cost for material only is +/-$2.00 per sq.ft. Material and Installed is +/- $6.50 per sq.ft.
Cost?
You don't put any coat on top to waterproof it?
We put a penetrating guard on it and burnish it. You cannot apply a coating on top of polished concrete, or it is no longer polished concrete is coated concrete.
Polished concrete is exactly what it's called. concrete that is polished to a shine, no coating on top
I'm in the construction industry in California and we find that many owners try to save money (understandably so) by avoiding concrete polish and, I suppose, hoping that a hard troweled/burnished finish will be the equivalent. What would be your response to an owner who wants a polished look but thinks it can be achieved with a troweled/burned finish?
Personally I have never really run into a floor that has been finished so well it's that shiny / smooth and reflective. If you can actually find somebody that can do that, that is great, but I would say you are extremely limited on finding a contractor that is able to finish concrete like that.
that is another type of flooring....is all....nothing wrong with trowel look....the way you sell PC is based on a mock up....must see the two finishes to compare....no Home Depot to go and look at a Polished Concrete Sampe
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How would you clean these floors? Just water?
Yes, a damp mop is all you need. If you spill oily liquid, you mix a mild solution of simple green with water. Polished concrete floors are the lowest maintenance floors in the industry.
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions awesome! We are building a barndo and the first half of our slab was poured Monday and due to concrete/wind issues the finish didn't turn out that great. Foot prints, a few holes, uneven spots so they are offering to grind/polish to fix those imperfections. Was concerned until I saw your videos! I love the look of the aggregate stones under the top.
@@ingasmile let me know how it turns out, good luck
I'm still thinking which is better, polished concrete or epoxy flooring?
It really all comes down to personal preference. You can control what epoxy flooring looks like, colors texture etc,
Concrete Polishing is not controllable, It is dictated by the condition of the concrete you are polishing.
Would pinsol or any other cleaning product full the shine? What about if a child spills orange juice?
Do not ever use chemicals on polished concrete. If you spill orange juice, clean it up. Anything that contains acids could be detrimental to Concrete. The better you keep it clean, the longer it lasts.
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions thank you for the reply, so when mopping just use hot water?
@@fernandocabanillas8133 warm water with mild soap solution if needed, usually water is enough.
How do you bid your polishing and epoxy jobs? Im about to start a floor polishing and epoxy business and would like to know how you bid your jobs?
send me your phone number via email, I can call you and go over it with you. It is too much to type jason@concretefloorsolutions.com
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions Ok thank you
That’s as shiny as Marble or Granite
What does this usually cost the owner?
I forget the total of this job it was around $4800 I believe.
I don`t understand meaning of those lines in the floor. If there is heating pipes underneath, and it is solid concrete. Why those separation lines? I´m constructor in Finland and we don´t do those, except for very large areas. Awesome work nevertheless.. Just unfamiliar with U.S. building procedure..
Those are predetermined saw cut joints to allow the concrete to shrink and crack in a straight line