Terrazzo Floor Finish

Additional chips may be sprinkled atop the mix before it sets.

Terrazzo floor finish. After it is cured it is ground and polished smooth or otherwise finished to produce a unifor. Flooring terrazzo types of terrazzo aesthetic appearance. In lieu of grinding and polishing the finish is achieved by lightly washing away some of the cement before curing exposing the marble granite and or quartz aggregate. Thin set terrazzois a 1 4 or 3 8 thick resinous topping that is directly applied over a sub floor.

In the past wax and acrylic finish were used as a sealer and gloss. Rustic terrazzo also known as washed terrazzo is typically an exterior application with its slip resistant textured finish. Metal strips often divide sections or changes in color or material in a pattern. Angle grinder or orbital sander diamond polishing pads or wet dry sanding pads grits ranging from 40 to 3500 depending on your floor shop vacuum awl stiff bristle brush not metal white portland cement and or tintable epoxy depending on the size of cracks penetrating sealer for.

It consists of chips of marble quartz granite glass or other suitable material poured with a cementitious binder polymeric or a combination of both. It is 5 8 thick and contains 75 marble on the surface terrazzo was originally ground to an 80 to 100 grit finish. Standard terrazzois made from relatively small stone chips and is typically.