How Concrete Polishing and Restoration Mitigates Dust and Adds Strength and Longevity
The condition of your flooring has major implications for your facility as a whole. Dirty, dusty, deteriorating floors diminish your workplace’s appearance, increase health and safety risks, hinder morale, and more. Conversely, clean, durable floors help streamline your operations, minimize costly repairs and replacements, improve health and safety outcomes, and enhance your interior atmosphere. Polishing your concrete floors can help you efficiently achieve these benefits. Here’s how concrete polishing and restoration mitigates dust in your facility while adding strength and longevity to your flooring.
How Your Facility Can Benefit from Concrete Polishing and Restoration
Concrete Polishing Creates a Smooth, Glossy Surface
The concrete polishing process uses diamond grinders to eliminate pits, stains, previous coatings, and other minor imperfections from the floor’s surface. This powerful polishing process creates a smooth, even surface free from any nooks and crannies that dust and other small particles typically cling to. In other words, a properly polished concrete floor is a highly dust-resistant floor. With less dust lingering in your facility, your indoor air quality will improve over time, and your interior will enjoy a brighter atmosphere thanks to its bright, reflective flooring. The number one step to keep your polished floors looking their best is to keep the sand and grit off by regularly dust-mopping the floor , but you’ll find that dust removal becomes much less of a chore.
Concrete Densifiers Protect and Strengthen the Top Layer of Flooring
In addition to keeping dust and dirt at bay, concrete polishing is also designed to strengthen the overall durability of your flooring. As the diamond grinders get to work, a penetrative chemical sealer (known as a concrete densifier) is applied to the floor, seeping into the concrete’s pores to protect it from moisture and other threats as well as harden its top layer. Ultimately, then, your already-durable concrete flooring becomes even sturdier when properly polished. Best of all, a polished concrete floor doesn’t require a top coating (e.g., epoxy, urethane cement, etc.), as the surface is already well-sealed and strong.
Polished Concrete Floors Are Easy to Maintain
With superior dust resistance and durability, concrete polished floors don’t require nearly as much maintenance as they did before. As mentioned earlier, it’s still important to perform dust-mopping and washing on a regular basis. That said, it doesn’t require a great deal of time or energy to completely clean polished concrete floors when compared to other flooring systems. This ease of maintenance not only allows you to allocate resources elsewhere – it also means that your polished floors will last a long time. But how long does concrete polishing last, exactly? With proper maintenance, these floor systems can endure for 20 years or longer (compare this to traditionally coated concrete floors that need to be recoated every 3 – 5 years on average). At Kaloutas, our polished floor systems never require waxing, stripping, or buffing. With a solid cleaning plan in place, these floors are meant to stick around for the long haul.
Protect Your Flooring and Facility with Kaloutas
Kaloutas offers a wide range of facility repair and renovation services with the goal of improving efficiency, safety, and longevity without interfering with regular operations. Whether we’re called to provide concrete polishing, concrete flooring, fireproofing, industrial cleaning, caulking, containment, etc., we work the way our clients work to reduce downtime and ensure the best results. To learn more about us and all that we do, contact us online or give us a call at 978−532−1414 today.