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Saturday, January 24, 2009

The Basic Methods of Concrete Polishing

By Mikkan Drane

Polished concrete is a generic term adopted on the fast becoming popular floor styling option in the market today. Its an option preferred where a home or establishment owner gets to expose the concrete flooring but without its grey dullness. The polished concrete style out stands the usual floor styles used like vinyl, hard wood floor, or tile option.

With the concrete polish floor styling option, you get to choose from a wide range of colors and finishes, matching exactly what you would want for your places' floor. It features an affordable make that is energy efficient, low maintenance and dust free. There are actually three popular methods that you can adopt in concrete polishing. These are steel trowelling, burnishing or honing.

Steel trowelling is a concrete polishing process that can be achieved either by hand or with a power trowelling machine. Your choice will depend on the area needing the process. Most of the time, problems like trowel marks are left after the procedure. The end result is that common greyish color, unless you put off white cement over it while trowelling.

After the trowelling process, if desired, you can go on with the next method which is the burnishing. This procedure started out with what used to be an alternative burnishing tools such as adding on liquid polishes, floor waxes and resin based coatings. Burnishing deepens the gloss making it an improvement from the output of the trowelling done before it.

When trowelling and burnishing is not enough, you can now proceed on adopting the honing method. This method deepens the depth of the concrete grinding. The effects should show aggravates coming up which is often used as part of the end output adding up to the aesthetics of the concrete polished floor.

By using your creativity, and knowing how to mix up all these processes along with the right tools, and the right materials, you will surely get a concrete polished floor that is classy and elegant in the end. Add in the right color combination, the pattern and style and you are definitely in for the best polished concrete floor to brag about.

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