Polished Concrete Overlay/Veneers

A polished concrete overlay is a building material used for flooring. It is perfect if you want to renovate the existing floor of your house to give it a polished look.

You can use polished concrete indoors in any room you want. If you want to use it in wet areas like your bathroom, you should use a grind and seal that has a non-slip compound in it. Alternatively, you can use a non-slip mat on the surface.

You can also use it on higher levels of the house. However, that may not have the same result like the one on the ground floor because constructors use a higher strength material.

If you have ties that are in good condition with no cracks or a timber floor, you can install polished concrete overly on it for a better finish.

Just like other hard flooring materials, polished concrete is not slippery if it is dry. However, if it becomes wet, it could be slippery and could cause an injury. To make it less slippery, you can use either the grind and seal or honed finish that have anti-slip properties.

Constructors can also add an anti-slip agent to the sealer, depending on how anti-slip you want your floor to be.

Installing polished concrete overlays can be a very dusty process, especially when grinding. However, the constructors use high-quality equipment and vacuums attached to them to eliminate dust in every process.

When they use the smaller hand grinders, they ensure to clean the surface after. You might have a little dust residue on the surface at the end of the process, but it is barely noticeable.

The time depends on the size of the floor, the complexity of the surface, and the finish you want the polished concrete to have. Unlike installation of other floorings, you can walk on polished concrete flooring as soon as the constructors finish installing it.

One of the main things that make polished concrete a preferred flooring method is its thermal mass property, which allows it to absorb heat fast but release it slowly. Therefore, if the floor absorbs heat during the day, you do not have to worry about it being cold at night.

This applies mostly in winter. If there is a heat source in the house and the floor absorbs that heat, it will still be present at night.

Also, during the summer, when the floor absorbs the coolness of the room at night, it will still be cool the following day.

After installing the polished concrete overlays, the constructors seal the surface, making it stain resistant. However, you should wipe off any spill on the surface.

If you use polished concrete on your garage floor and it gets an oil stain, professionals will try to grind off the topcoat of the floor to try and remove the stain. If that doesn’t work, they continuously purge the floor.

If that still doesn’t work, you can try applying a layer of solid coloured epoxy on the flooring to cover the stain