Polished Concrete Garage Floor with Logo

[Armorpoxy]

Hi All, From time to time we like to post some nice pics of projects we encounter. Our sister company that does installations, www.prep-crete.com recently did a polished floor for a car collector.

Customer us build into the floor a special Chevy SS logo which was done with a stencil, stains, acid wash and hand grinding and polishing equipment and then sealed.

The pink foam around the perimeter was installed to temporarily protect the walls from the heavy grinders bumping into them and causing damage.

 

[bigjon]

Looks awesome! Just curious, could they have grouted the cracks?

 

[Glory]

The cracks give it character. Nice finish

 

[Armorpoxy]

The customer wanted the cracks left for a more distressed look.

 

[casmurbax]

Considering the color and the finish they chose, I think it looks great.

 

[77thor]

Wow! That is really nice.

 

[Cairo94507]

Beautiful floor.

 

[bigjon]

My grout question wasn’t ‘they should have’, it was ‘could they’. I’m only curious if a grout would have hidden it well enough.

 

[benwah]

My grout question wasn’t ‘they should have’, it was ‘could they’. I’m only curious if a grout would have hidden it well enough.

Yep, definitely. There are products like Metzger-McGuire SRG, which is a high solids, rapid-curing polyurea that you would hand trowel or magic trowel on to fill small cracks, bug-holes, scratches etc.. there are many products for this process, this is just the one I use. I prefer to grout after my metals and before the ceramic transitional.

 

[yeldogt]

Is that polished and then stained and sealed with clear epoxy .... ?

 

[Armorpoxy]

Hi, yes, cracks can be filled and polished smooth. We do that regularly.

Regarding the question above, no there is no epoxy or topical coating.

Polishing concrete is a similar process to polishing granite such as countertops, except it's done on-site by using successively finer diamond polishing pads.

At the later stages densifier is used and then at the last step a stain blocker/guard is burnished in with high speed burnishers which gives it the desired sheen.

A note though is that even with the protection, polished concrete floors are not super fluid and stain resistant over time since they don't have topical protection. This particular job was for show car storage and got little if any 'real' usage other than parking.

 

[yeldogt]

Interesting ...... can you seal it ?

I had a slab done w/ white sika ... it's a powder. it's not tint rather a worked in layer . I'm not sure they did it correctly .. but I was trying to get something like what's in the Corning Museum.

It's a project from hell -- it was done a few years ago and covered to protect as the rest of the building went up. I'm sure it's going to be interesting when we uncover the whole thing next spring/summer.

It's the lower level of a house I'm building in Bucks County

 

[Armorpoxy]

Sika underlayments may be possible to be sealed, this is not the same as polishing. Notwithstanding what they say test in a small area or corner a sealer. We carry these and there are many others on the market. The photo on the posting appears to be polished concrete which is different than a sealed concrete. Polishing is a much more expensive, and more durable finish.

 

[burright]

Wow, that is really nice!

 

[bazzateer]

Really nice, and the cracks do indeed add character.