Polished Concrete Floors

What is Polished Concrete Flooring?

A polished concrete floor is a concrete floor that has been ground down using large grinding discs with varying levels of coarseness to give the concrete a nice shine/gloss look and feel. It's a similar process that you use on timber flooring. Of course there are many many more factors that come into play when polishing concrete, like epoxy's, stains, resins, aggregates, textures and so on. However, that's what polished concrete is in it's simplest form.

In fact, you probably walk on a polished concrete floor a few times a week without even noticing. This is because there are so many different appearances colours and textures that we can create with polished concrete. We can make the concrete standout a little or a lot! The choice is yours.

So why Choose Polished Concrete for your floor?

When you build a home or renovate your existing home, at some point in your planning you will need to decide on what type of flooring is best for your home and your lifestyle. Concrete flooring has quickly moved from typical warehouse, factory flooring applications, into the residential and domestic markets. The main reasons for this market shift is due to its versatility, affordability and the vast array of decorative finishes and textures that can be achieved with concrete floors.

For those of looking for something that is more environmentally friendly, extremely durable, long lasting and cost effective, then you can not find a better flooring option than polished concrete flooring for your Canberra home.

Find out what benefits you get from a polished concrete floors in your Canberra home:

• Eco-friendly, lower carbon footprint by using fewer materials and resources than it takes to make timber flooring, carpet, vinyl, tiles etc, which are layed over the top of your concrete floor.
• Easy care and durable - advances in concrete polishing technology means we can achieve many finishes from stain to high gloss to suit your preference without the need to wax or apply special coatings.
• The cost of polished concrete floor is comparable to using other flooring materials, however a polished concrete floor will out last them all!
• Longevity/durability resistant to high foot traffic
• Versatile - polished concrete flooring, benchtops, garage floors, polished aggregate.
• Large range of design options: colours, textures, acid stain, epoxy, paint with waterproof latex paint, decorative texture patterns, polishing or etching for a faux tile look.
• Reflective/wet look for contemporary and professional appearance
• Much more affordable that marble or granite flooring, where polished concrete can achieve similar visual appearance.
• Can achieve a polished 'exposed' aggregate look. We can produce stunning patterns and attractive aggregate look by placing different contrasting stones, coloured glass, rocks on the top layer so when ground down and polished we can achieve very stunning results with your polished floor.
• Increase in property value