The New Image Of Concrete Flooring

Though they were once looked down upon in a retail or restaurant setting as looking trashy or cheap, concrete is now a very vogue choice in flooring.  30 years ago if you went into a restaurant with concrete floors you would most likely be in a BBQ dive in the middle of nowhere.  If you went into a retail store that had one you would think you were either in a very cheap thrift store or maybe a hardware store.  This is not the case anymore.  Now they are the flooring of choice of trendy art galleries, the hippest bars, and the coolest retail stores.  Concrete flooring is not at all what it used to be.

The first thing you need to do is get rid of that vision on concrete as that ash gray slab that is in your driveway.  That is not what you want in your gallery/retail store/restaurant.  Concrete comes in colors now with as many shades as a box of crayons.  For most people the darker gray is the one to go with.  Would you really want to try to eat at a place that has a magenta floor?  No, you want people to focus on the food/art/items and not the floor.

Once you peck your color, hopefully dark gray, you will be ready to move on to the concrete preparation.  This involves making sure that it is sealed before the concrete polishing.  You won't be able to polish it well unless it has been properly sealed.  It is not as had to have done as you might think.  Professionals can do it for you rather quickly as they already have the equipment for the job and the knowledge to use the products involved.

The last part of getting your concrete flooring ready is the concrete polishing.  This is what gives the floor that pretty sheen and helps to keep scratches on the outer surface.  You will want to protect the floor because deeper scratches are harder to conceal.  The important thing is to keep the floor polished and looking fresh.  This might seem like a slow, labor-intensive, process but it is not.  There are plenty of machines to aide you in concrete polishing.  They come in all sizes just as businesses come in all sizes.  You might only need a small one that is pushed by hand or you might need one of the much bigger ones that you ride like a lawn tractor.

When you are considering flooring don't forget concrete.  Concrete has a whole new image.