"DIY" - Concrete floor refinishing
April 2010 Job of the Month - We respect people who want to DIY. If you can save a buck and put some sweat equity into your home, why not try it? It's not for everyone though, and sometimes things can go wrong. If it does, as was the case with this concrete floor refinishing project in Richardson, Tx, we are more than happy to help out. Unfortunately, this homeowner got a lot of bogus information about overlays. She was led to believe they were very easy to install and sadly it was only after her floor peeled up that she found out the truth. You can follow this link to see just how many steps there are in concrete floor refinishing:
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When I first arrived at this Richardson, Tx home we found that the homeowners had bought some cement and had used a "concrete glue" to try to make it stick to the floor which is what an employee at a big box home improvement store had told them to do. We were literally able to scrape the floor up just by passing a chisel over it. She was not happy and wanted us to fix the problem particularly since she was a show dog trainer and wanted her home to look beautiful for herself and her prospective clients. We got right to work rectifying her situation.
Proper floor prep prior to applying the overlay is crucial in making sure it will stick and we use a special cement mix that has "glue" already incorporated into it to make sure it sticks well. We started up by removing the delaminating flooring and applying our own concrete floor refinishing material. We pigmented it with a light beige color then followed it up with a beautiful, golden water stain that kind of gave it a soft, almost bamboo looking color. As always we sealed it with a solvent based concrete sealer before applying a couple of protective wax coats.
As you can see in one of the pictures, this Richardson homeowner followed our recommendations to use a hard floor chair matt if you have a rolling office chair. The matt protects the floor from having grit ground into it from the chair's wheels. Concrete floor refinishing is an overlay process that creates a hard, durable floor but it is not "bulletproof".
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