Concrete Polishing From Start To Finish : 10 Step Grind
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- čas přidán 22. 03. 2021
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Nice to see professional tradespersons who take pride in their work.
Thank you for noticing and thanks for watching.
I've been in flooring for close to 30 years as well and I can tell your style, you know your stuff and you take pride in a good job. That is why I'm suscribed. On a side note I'm just getting into polishing and coatings. I'm writing a proposal for a stained concrete polish job and I noticed one area has craze cracks. Can you grind through those?
@@1stainless Yoo im late to this but im young in this industry only 23. have been only polishing for 4 years. Depending on where the crack is what I usually do is cut the crack a bit (so that the material bonds) then fill it with your best patching material. When doing this mix it with dust from the floor your doing so it can get the same tone. during this what im still expirementing is putting rocks in the crack mix so when grinding it there's some aggregate and it hides the crack if that makes sense.
Jason and Jeff did a great job on this, my garage / studio floor of about 350 sq ft. They revealed some cool character, cracks and varied aggregate. One never knows what the final result will be, except it will shine. Well worth any cheaper solution. No bacon-break for them . . . but did give them one of my home made pizzas for lunch.
And it was delicious. Thank you for the business, i’m glad you like it.
Jason,as a floor installer looking to find other aspects of work ,I personally appreciate that you show all of the steps! I appreciate your videos tons man!
My pleasure, thanks for watching.
been in the industry 20 years. this is a great video showing how much work and equipment you need for a "small" job. Resin burn sucks. glad you showed how the edges look from concrete placement and how its not the Polishing guy not doing it right. Great job.
Thank you for watching and thanks for the great compliment.
20 years you say that's a 🤥
Man 20 years that's a veteran in that industries
When you said you used a 400 grit copper to remove scratches around the edges you lost me.
@@user-ry4rp7ph3v I don't get how he could be lying about 20 years. I'm in the industry and know multiple guys in their 30+ years. Two of them retired last year.
I love how organised you are. You've absolutely fine tuned your craft
You are so detailed in your work, a true artist. What a wonderful job.
I work for a concrete polishing company and love it. One day I hope to be able to own my own business. Your videos helped ease my mind before I started my job so I wanted to say thank you for your time into making these videos and sharing your knowledge!
My pleasure, I’m glad you enjoyed it
Is it possible to get started with no experience
Thank you Concretefloorsolution for up load this comprehensive video. I am currently getting quotes from different companies ( sorry we live in Australia ) to do my floor, I now known what to expect from them. Thank you again
Great job guys. The attention to detail is awesome.
Every floor is unique!
Great work.
I love this look! Great work guys.
Love the exposed aggregate. Great job! Beautiful look.
When the diamonds burn you need to lower your speed and spray water. Saves the diamonds. Been doing polish floors for 9 years. You learn tricks from vets. Great video and nice work guys
I actually demonstrate that exact process in many of my other Polishing videos
Nice attention to detail, gentlemen.
That’s amazing . A lot of work .
holy cow i did not expect so much machinery for concrete polishing. Nice setup!
I found this to be a lot of help to do this exact same work for a factory thank you
Thanks for the insight into the job! You guys did great:)
Probably the best video out there for what's involved. I'm now certain I'm just going to grind my floor level to 120 grit and paint it.
Watching and learning from Australia great work guys
Liked seeing your trailer and you showed all job details well
Thanks for sharing your experience with us
Nice guys. Well equipped, very professional
Keep it up man! Love watching your vids! I always learn so much from your efforts! Stay safe out there!
Thank you for watching.
Ok well… I WAS thinking about doing this myself. Nevermind now!
Great work gentlemen! Awesome video
This business looks serious and professional and worth what ever you charge
If you come across really hard concrete..wet grinding is the best option. We also use HTC machines, most often we use the 950, we have 15 of them and smaller ones of course.. There have been good machines.You seem to know what you are doing, and thanks for the great work samples.
very nice polishing like it I m a polisher from ontario canadia I like the way you doing it.
Hey guys, watching and learning from Australia - thanks for the content!
Thank you for watching
Ayyy same boat!
Hey man just FYI I watch about every video you publish and just get so much knowledge from them. thank you
Thanks for watching
I just started doing this trade last week. They were willing to hire someone with no experience and I'm not going to miss out on the opportunity. Thanks for the homework video!! Hopefully I make it😅
Did you do the job? Any advice for skilled first timers?
@pulaskifarm W he fired me because I crashed my car and didn't make it one day (he was fishing for some reason I think he thought I was a thug or something). I did it for about 2 weeks. Advice would be wear proper PPE and if something doesn't feel right, look on the OSHA site and make sure they're to par with everything. I had no respirator grinding concrete getting silica dust into my lungs. Thats my only experience with it, so I can only really hope this was just a bad operation, but PUT YOUR HEALTH 1ST!!! Sorry I couldn't help more tho...
Sorry to hear,,,keep at it and follow your interests
@@ChaserRocks I'm going to try. I think I need to get out of oklahoma🤣
Thanks for the awesome content and information!
Your equipment is amazing. Clear sign your winning as a business 👏
Keep making the videos. I always learn something from you guys.
welcome to the channel
I do exactly the same but in the UK....Same kit, same issues.....Only just found your channel and about to binge watch...Nice work Sir,..👌🏻
Thank you for watching.
Great video,thanks.I want my front deck ripped out and would love polished concrete stairs front and back of house.I wasn’t keen on the cracks in floor but looks unreal otherwise.
Love the blastrac collector
When doing my wooden floors, on my 30's property, with a stand up belt sander, at 32 grit, I used up 25 belts, then only 2 belts on 40, 80 and 120 grit, (and my finish required I stop there 😁) so very much understand the struggle to get the first layer sorted.
Thank you for sharing!! Very interesting and good job and explanation!! saludos desde Argentina!!
SASE 👍🏼 great products good Quality
Nice set up👍
Them racattacs are a life saver when it comes to hand grinding the edges. We usually use an edger. But sometimes the edger doesn't give as great of results as hand grinding it does. Just depends on the floor really.
That's awsome......if u guys ever in south Texas let me know.....u got the job !
Very professional and well explained.
I wish you were in Arizona. You are a class act.
I do this type of work. Polishing and epoxy, and trust me, this stuff will make a man out of you. It definitely isn't easy work. I love it though. Great job on the floor by the way, looks good man 👍
Man, that looks awesome
I like your trailer , wonderful job 👍
Thank you for watching
Great video!!
Great finish
Nice work 🙌🏽
Terrazzo look, with the gator skin look finish
I’m having my clinic floors done, and I had no clue why polished concrete floors cost so much. I had no idea what was involved. Thanks!
They cost a lot bc it’s a lot of work. A lot of man power put into it and the finished product is amazing. I use to do it but had to stop just do to so much traveling and having a young daughter. I very much miss it. It’s fun
@ADD1SCHXRMSXO it's only fun on the final stages lol
thank you for the education!
Great videos! You are obv true professionals. I have recently purchased an Edco 22” grinder and am planning on doing a few large floors with it. I am totally new to this, but have been a contractor for almost 20 years doing almost everything from the ground up. Quick question. In my very limited understanding of this process, the actual grinding bits go to 140 grit, and then you switch to pads? Also, how do you match your hand grinder grit to your floor grinder? Thanks again for your helpful videos, and any advice you might provide.
Great job!to hide the cracks we use colored sealer.Works fine and helps if the customer aint happy.Check Husquarna polished concrete system,you gonna like it:)
I love the knee pads on wheels!
yes , i have already done this
Racatac is a must for this type of work
Beautiful
Damn nice guys!!
The rack attack makes life so much easier!!!!!!
Very cool work actually going to be joining a small company that does this same thing here in a few days very exciting and interesting work!
Good luck, thanks for watching.
I like the finish
Polished concrete is so attractive.
Nice gear and good hardworking knowledgeable team. I’d highly recommend getting with the Australians and look into the husqvarna hiperfloor system. Worx+ is the name their runnin under after the sold to husky. Oh and FYI 400 won’t ever remove scratches.
Very informative. As a career documentary cameraman may I suggest you have a go at positioning the camera at floor level so we can better see the aggregate in the concrete which will highlight the changes in texture with each pass of the grinder. Modern smartphone cameras have good macro capability. You may have to invert the camera to get the lens really close. With these closeups play around with a small battery powered led soft work light positioned to one side.
Firstly, this floor is absolutely stunning. You do amazing work and love how informative this video is!
I’m having my floor done currently, after they stripped the paint off the concrete, the team says that my floor “cannot be polished”, is this possible?
They’ve told me the floor is turning to dust when they go over it with the machine. I see how many passes you had to take to get the polished look - they’ve tried to convince me I cannot achieve this look. Any advice or advisement would be greatly appreciated!!! I would love to end up with a perfectly imperfect polished concrete floor like you’ve shown us!
Thanks I’m advance for any help
How concrete they use so it looks this nice? Or any do after polishing?
That looks fucking awesome I'm getting it done
Looks like raku, beautiful.
Joint filler Great Products to , I forgot the name !
The versaFlex it’s so good to
Jeez that looks awesome.
Good job
Looks like a lot of work, but it looks really nice. Is there any compound or top coat used, or is it pure concrete?
Awsome. Now do you apply an epoxy finish or some sort of sealer to it from here? Or do you just leave it
I like seeing stuff like this and knowing my jobs easier. After first cut depending on how bad the concrete is, all you need is 100s, 400s and 800s. 200s in between 100s and 400s are literally just a waste of time
Unless you are leaving scratches that won't be removed from the 400s, which is why we were using the 200s. We used to do that years ago and we landed up getting residual scratches, now we do the extra grind. It's much easier to do the extra grind before you realize you should've done it three steps ago.
That looks awsome. My question is how you would do a bathroom as it needs a fall to the drain.
Take and run soap down both sides of your joints before you put in the joint compound. Clean ups a snap. Try it
Is your competition I have to have to hand it to you very organized great work and we can all learn something from you
Are those melamine or phenol based pads? phenolic suppose to be better right?
Also, is it waxed or densified inbetween steps, bcs it looks great as it is if its not
Do you have to sealer on it? Or what would be the advantage of sealing it?
Very Cool!...subed.
Wish I could fly you guys out to Austin TX to do my garage!
Hello there! How do you work the corners when polishing concrete ! The hand grinder will not reach that point. Thanks
Your working style is very professional in india we work like this
Cool dude...cool tools...thanks for the expertise...nice to see the country...is that concrete dust reusable?
omg tell me where you bought that system, that you use to polish the walls...in Switzerland we use nothing but knee protection and i end the freaking day in pain
where did you get your dust shroud for your Dewalt grinder? I need one of those
Pretty amazing job yall do. Quick question.
What do you all do with all the grinding dust that's left over from all your jobs?
trash, all inert dust from stone and cement
Good day. If the client was looking for a light salt and pepper exposure think it would have been best to start with a resin 30 and run wet. Then run wet resin 50 and 100, densify with way more densifier. Let the densifier rest over night then run up to 800 dry and guard. I realize this makes the job 2 days instead of one but in reality it is much less work and a much more refined look. It’s one man and two half days for a floor this size. When running metal bonds, the deep cut exposes more pours, more pours equals less refined. Also, if the concrete is obviously that hard just run wet. Water tricking the metal bonds is a mistake. It will help with the cut a little bit but it tempers the metal making the bond harder therefore not as good for hard crete. When the metal does shed, it will often leave a burr and a scratch pattern.
Damn man you make it looks like tail I love that job
great work! do you need to put another layer of epoxy on top? will the naked polished conrete last? if I have a very large space (1000sqft), how much gap lines I need in between?
Polished concrete is exactly what it's called, polished concrete. If you put epoxy on top it's no longer polished concrete, it is an epoxy coating. We apply a lithium silicate microfilm on top of the concrete which penetrates into the concrete, it is not a coating.
I dont know what you refer to when you say gap line?
If you are referring to joints, they are typically every 10 to 12 feet
@@ConcreteFloorSolutions thanks for the info! Great stuff!
Another great video. Keep em coming.
Does it take 2 men to get that grinder up the trailer ramp once the job is done?
Yes it does, it weighs 900lbs. thank you for the comment.
I didn't know that concrete can be polished.....👍🏾
Great channel. Do you use the shot blaster much at all ?. Thanks
We use the shot blaster a lot to clean out joints, and for commercial jobs for heavy duty surface prep.
I have a question what would you recommend to use to fill in the expansion joints on a already polished concrete floor that I can later pass the polishing buffer over when maintaining my concrete polished floors thank you any feedback
The joints should have been filled before the concrete polishing was done. This is the material I would recommend:
concretefloorsolutions.com/store/repair-materials/cfs-fast-set-joint-filler-with-static-mixing-tip/
hey awesome video, im really curious where you got your little back life safer which you wheel around when doing the edges, ive been looking for one but cant find them anywhere, p.s im from new zealand
It is called a Rac-A-Tac.
Absolutely nice job.
question: where did you buy the wheel thing you use to grind edges that looks very comfortable.
concretefloorsolutions.com/store/accessories/racatac-with-chest-support-01rac3cs/