Concrete Polishing inside a home. We made this room shine! 

Polished concrete is my favourite style of flooring, regardless of money spent, and this finish is stellar. Props to the original masonry workers and Concrete Floor Solutions.

Good to see polished concrete being used in USA homes more often

So great to see a Tradesman who takes obvious pride in his work, and rightly so! We do a slightly difference here in NZ though very similar result. Thanks for sharing mate

What a professional set up...the constant monitoring and adjusting demonstrates true class and what a finish.

Amazing cart for hand polishing. We do Walmart renovations and the amount of HP is ridiculous. Thankfully this saves my back and time swapping pads seeing as it has the tray. Y'all know what's up. I've seen very few others with those life savers. Shout out to all you concrete cowboys out there.

Wow, I had no idea you could polish concrete like that. Amazing.

Genius! Yes, family will have years of easy care and unique charm to this room. They will always be grateful to your company!

Having a Flooring company myself, I just love the Americans, they have amazing skills and equipment. Stunning guys!!

I love how this looks, reminds me of terrazzo. I've always had my heart set on epoxy terrazzo, with the cove along the wall.

Turned that floor into a luxury item haha, great work !

Attention to detail...you are the master instructor!! OG DA BOSS!!!

I do marble restoration with one 17" swing machine. The amount of equipment you guys have is insane. WOW

Spectacularly informative video, which absolutely convinced me NOT to attempt such a project myself. Also, I can't believe that you don't offer the special squeeze bottles for sale from your online store.

Just got to the point of "cooling the tooling".... Have you ever done a wet polish? Goes sooo much faster. You also have an easier time not creating those ridges on your edges...

I wish I can find someone like you that allows me to work for free just so I can learn the skills and get the experience. Great workmanship and very professional sir. And the attention to details amazing

Amazing! That floor will serve them well for many years to come 👌👌👌

Looks like marble I wish you guys were in Texas as I said before. Fantastic

Cheapest way to do a foundation, its strong, the floor is included and it looks good too. But if not doing precasted slabs the entire foundation pour requires it to be done in one shot so you need a cement pouring machine, so you would have to contract this out, which is probably a good idea anyway for the most important part of your house, by far. Then you could build on top yourself with much less risk. Better than wood foundations because slabs are cheaper and last longer. Of course if your terrain allows it.

Best I have ever seen you are all great craftsman beautiful to see.

Beautiful shined like a mirror excellent work

Hard work bringing excellent results. Well done sir.

Just a pro tip for when filling cracks try using a card or trowel and scrape excess material down that crack instead of wasting all that material And I hope you guys are washing and taking all that dust off before you lay the guard other than that great video

This is sorta of what was done to many homes in Florida during the 60s and 70s . They called it terrazzo floors. Only back then was it actually cheaper to do than traditional flooring. Like every other trade, the price has skyrocketed over the years ! Two years ago, we purchased a fixer upper and got quotes from most of the trades for renovation projects, and we were shocked at how much they wanted! We expected prices in the thousands but what we got was prices in the tens of thousands! It was at the moment we decided to do 90% of our renovation ourselves! It wasn't that we couldn't afford it. It was more of a "I'm not paying that much out of the principle of it all"! Seriously, one guy ,a drywaller, wanted almost $20 grand to sheetrock two small guest rooms and a guest bath and a small 5-foot hallway that was between the guest rooms and guest bath! I litterly laughed in his face and walked him out of our house! The electrician, plumber, and general renovation contractor had similar quotes that we laughed at as well! After adding up all the quotes we received, they totaled more than the house cost us! The number one reason most of them said for the high quotes was taxes,taxes,taxes!! I feel for contractors ,I really do ! The government has become way out of control lately!! It's all of our faults as Americans because, for whatever reason, the wrong people are elected into office because we as citizens have let our government get out of control by not paying attention!! Most of us are more concerned with our own little lives and have ignored this problem way too long! Want proof? Just look at the current administration! It's all the proof you need! Smh....

Love the results. I wish the sound quality was more consistent.

Beautiful work, thanks for sharing with us! I feel like I'm your apprentice except I just sit here on my bottom and watch haha

Your detailed commentary 👌🏻 another great video!

Very nice Video , Thank You. Would like to see detail on how you handle corners and edges not accessible by the large machine.

You did an excellent job 👍🏻

Very impressive results.

Y’all are so pro! We DIY our best today so this hurts to watch lol

Question why not fill in the area along the concrete and wood area the customer put in ?

This may also be a ridiculous question but since the corners are so much harder to grind, is it absolutely out of the question to grind after the slab has been poured and before framing? I am guessing there are multiple issues with this (IE. Keeping clean, weather exposure, needs cure time, etc). Is there not a sequence that makes some kind of sense like to complete most of the grinding after the slab has cured and then do the fine grit/buff/resin after drywall is in? Great work and video by the way.

This floor with area rugs is perfect for where I live. I absolutely hate carpeting. In my passive solar house the sun heats the bare concrete in winter. That heats the house all night long. In summer the sun never hits the floors so they stay cool.

Stunning job guys !!! Great video

You should be doing the patching to the pinholes after the first grind because it opens up other pin holes sometimes

Hi Jason, I watched this video 3 times now and have to say: it is one of the most satisfying results I have seen. 2 questions: you scraped the 343 filled holes in this video and in other videos you grind over these areas after „repairing“ them. Is it like: scrape it when you polish the floor and grind it when you do an epoxy floor ? Second question: would it also be possible to leave the joints completely open (without filling them) ? Thanks a lot ! You and Jeff are a great team.

I learned lots of things.thanks for sharing your nolage with us,

What’s the cost compared to regular flooring and what’s the long term maintenance with this flooring?

What is the purpose of the joints and doesn't filling them defeats the purpose? Great videos BTW!

Looks great, any idea on how to do walls and ceilings? I build a pool like a cave with big rocks like a maya ruin. But its rough cement. And I want it polished like the floor u guys do here. Anyway it looks great.

Looks very nice. But I can see that concrete polishing is a laborious job and expensive...I should go straight with epoxy coating floor.

excellent work

Thank you

Great work. The floor looks beautiful.

Beautiful job, & surly very expensive too!

Incredible work

Great videos. I've been a concrere finisher for a few years was wondering what finish do you prefer we trowel it. Is a light fuzz better or for a burned finish. Thanks

Hi: Our concrete floor is over an in-floor heating system. First leveled using a long 2x4, then floated for a few hours, and finally hand troweled way into the middle of the night. It was done mid-winter, above freezing. A typical DIY basic $$ project. It looked pretty nice. It was done in sections because of the size of the hose trucks in our rural area. The sections were divided based on entries into the kitchen, hallways and bedroom area. That mostly worked fine. When main front areas were pored, we rented basic polishing equipment available in our area. We ran it to about 150 and it looked great. We did this to each area, and covered with construction paper and sheets of plywood. As the project progressed we are now ready to do some final polishing, then use densifiers. All the windows and doors are in, so this is a reasonably warm space as we enter the fall. Questions: What brand lithium silicate densifier do you recommend? Do you use the nano type or not? We will probably polish the floor up to about 200 or so but not as shiny as this job, which is amazing. We want to put a carnauba wax on it once construction is done. Do you have experience with this? I don't want it really shiny or slippery and I have read that the carnauba isn't crazy slippery. Any thoughts on that. I don't need it really shiny and don't want to use a sealer if possible. Thanks so much for these amazing videos and what you have shared. You are helping a lot of folks. And you do great work for those who can afford to hire you. We appreciate you sharing your knowledge, cuz otherwise we would just have a crappy gray concrete floor. Thanks.☺PS Please answer if you have time cuz we will be tackling the next steps shortly.😱

Nice job 👍🏾

I don’t know much about concrete but I am trying to learn how to do something like this to a car shop I am turning into an apartment. I had nice level floors but I had to cut them up for the rough in plumbing. Now they look hideous. Do you have any ideas on how to put a layer of concrete over the top to hide the cut marks and the new concrete? I thought about a self leveling layer but would I still be able to get that color and shine as in this video? To see the rock and texture in the concrete? Also do you need to put sealer on top of the concrete floor so it doesn’t stain or take in moisture? I would love any advise and insight! Thanks for the video!

Hi Mr, I don't see how to polish edging area? Can you introduce how to make same teksture and gloss middle and edge area?

Very nice look. What is the long term care like for a floor like this?

Looks amazing! We're just about to pour the concrete floor for our basement and I'm considering doing it polished like this. Is there a specific type of concrete that is needed for this, or will your average basement floor concrete work?

Truely amazing 💪👌

This is a stupid question why don’t you just use the saw cut filler for the little pinholes

Love the show…What is the first grit you go around the walls with on the hand grinder.Is it high speed grinder or what please?

What was the progression of the sandpaper (I have to take glue off first). How long did you think the whole project took? I have 3000 sf to do.

❤beautiful I love it

Thinking about doing this to my 2900 sqft ranch home on a slab. Its current flooring is outdated, carpet and old tiles. I've refinished my basement floor with black polycuramine and refinished hardwood floors before, but this is a much bigger area than I've ever done and it's going in my whole house. I'd like it to flow into the pool area, as well as the attached garage. Have you done anything like this before? It seems like a good idea in my head, but realistically, I don't know if it is going to match up with the garage and pool area. Wondering if I do it all at the same time, prior to changing the grit, or if I break it up by part of the house and turn it into three different jobs. Thoughts?

Can you tell me where you purchased dual component battery operated caulk gun?

Great job! Maybe an unusual question, but is it possible to do something similar with a poured concrete wall?

I'm still thinking which is better, polished concrete or epoxy flooring?

I don`t understand meaning of those lines in the floor. If there is heating pipes underneath, and it is solid concrete. Why those separation lines? I´m constructor in Finland and we don´t do those, except for very large areas. Awesome work nevertheless.. Just unfamiliar with U.S. building procedure..

I love that house. Wasn't sure how polished concrete would look with all that old wood but it looks great.

are you running a densifier sodium based or lithium based? and also what was the last resin bond you used on this floor?

WOW !!!!!

Hello sir, what is the name of the solution used to remove black spots?

What's the difference between a guard and a sealer? Also, does the burnisher have the 1500s?

I'm in the construction industry in California and we find that many owners try to save money (understandably so) by avoiding concrete polish and, I suppose, hoping that a hard troweled/burnished finish will be the equivalent. What would be your response to an owner who wants a polished look but thinks it can be achieved with a troweled/burned finish?

You are amazing!

You don't put any coat on top to waterproof it?

How did you polished the edges we didn’t see that??

Great job! Doesn't the finished floor need some sort of sealant to prevent the concrete from absorbing stains etc?

Can I deep clean concrete floors that have some kind of dull shine and buff them out to bring back the polish?

What is the maintenance for the homeowner? Looking to have this done for basement

Amazing finish. How do you get into the corners?

Our new slab is a few months old but it has some spalling (holes). We want to seal the concrete(not polish or epoxy). Would you recommend using the Poly grade joint filler and CSF 343 on holes and only seal the concrete?

I've watched a few of your videos and it doesn't look like there's typically a grouting step, do you find that your customers prefer a more natural look?

Its nice idea👍👍👍👍👍

@ 26:10 putting guard down. What is "guard"?

Do you start the process from direct concrete floor or from terrazzo chippings. if concrete please what grade of concrete

How do you finish the perpendicular corners with that round machine?

You didnt put any sealer before burnishing?

Great video been think about incorporating the concrete flooring into my current janitorial floor care business. What’s the average cost per a square foot if you don’t mind me asking? We have contracts to maintain the concrete floors but I want to get into the grinding and cutting like you do.

How can I make my new tile easier to clean not to show dirty

They could use 100 resin hybrids after metal pads done. Then, densifier and run 400 resin hybrids. High gloss right there! It doesn't need the 800's. Try that faster system. Congratulations guys!

what model dewalt gun is that. never seen the dual component one

so i have a question, if i do this at my house will it lower the value or is the same as if i have tiles

How long has the concrete cured before you polished it?

Could this technically devalue a home if someone wanted to remove it and put carpet in for example?

Does the densifier replace a final sealer? Is a sealer needed?

How much do you typically charge per square foot?

What does this usually cost the owner?

You make that look too easy for the home owners. If only they could really understand the back breaking and tedious work that is being done. Especially with the edging.

When filling the cracks with the low viscosity crack filler will the overflow stain the concrete ? Also does that type of crack filler accept stain?

i watched your previous video where you polish an office but crazecracks came out however in this one there was no such case ..any idea about that?love your work:)

Cost?

Great looking work. Learning a lot from your channel. Did you skip the 1500 grit pad on this one and go straight to the 3000 clean up pad? Thx.

Fantastic job! I have a quote for natural concrete polishing my garage floor, which is $600 more than a quote to epoxy the floor with a 5 layer full broadcast flakes. Is a concrete polished floor worth that much more than the epoxy job? Thanks for the great videos.

How much would it cost to have this done on a 600sqft floor?