Polished concrete floors are fast becoming a popular choice for home flooring. Thanks to recent advances in polishing equipment and techniques, contractors are now grinding concrete floor surfaces, whether new or old, to a high-gloss finish that never needs waxes or coatings.
Dry Diamond polishing, a relative new concept for polishing concrete, was a serendipitous discovery rather than an invention. Wet polishing of granite and marble has been around for decades when it was discovered that the same process could be used for concrete. In 1998, a contractor in Tunisia that usually polished natural stone was hired to polish concrete around a palace. New workers were hired for the project and it was assumed that they knew that they had to use water. The contractor came back to check on the workers only to discover that they were polishing the concrete dry. He ordered them to stop but then realized that the concrete was beautiful.
The newest advancement in polished concrete techniques, dry diamond concrete polishing allows grinding and polishing to take place without the hassle of wet grinding. Where wet grinding creates a messy slurry which must be collected and disposed of, dry diamond polishing dust particles are collected through the use of a HEPA filtration vacuum system. In this system, 98% of all airborne particulates are collected, which enables the polishing process to take place without any down time to the facility being serviced.
When comparing the advantages and disadvantages of material used for commercial and residential flooring, polished concrete ranks at the top in all categories. New or retrofit, polished concrete offers a number of advantages that other flooring materials can't match, particularly when it comes to durability, performance, maintenance, sustainability, and cost.
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