The Benefits of Polished Concrete

---

Creative Surfaces Inc. works with Retailers, Big-box stores, Restaurants, Educational and Medical facilities who are choosing polished concrete for their floor finish because of the competitive advantage polished flooring offers over other types of floor coverings.

Polished Concrete Floor Benefits:

• Cost savings: Using the slab on grade as the finished floor surface makes it more cost effective. Maintenance costs are lower.  Its relatively high coefficient of friction can make it non-slippery.

• Less maintenance and longer service life: Polished floors are easy to clean, requiring only occasional damp mopping. Eliminates the need for waxes or coatings, as well as the associated labor, time, and expense to apply them. The glossy surface of polished concrete resists the marks of forklift truck tires and staining from oil and chemical spills.

• Resistant to moisture transmission issues: Polished concrete allows the floor to breathe and eliminates issues that arise with other flooring materials that seal off the concrete, such as tile, etc.

• High light reflectivity: Important for office building floors, hotels, restaurants, and other public facilities that want to project a bright, clean, professional image. Also saves energy by reducing artificial lighting while improving natural lighting.

• A sustainable flooring alternative: Polished concrete does not require hazardous coatings, cleaners or adhesives. Polished concrete contains no Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) which makes it an environmentally friendly surface.

• Longer life-cycle savings: Polished floors are not as vulnerable to damage as other
  materials and do not need replacing.  Polished concrete floors will not chip or dent.

• Easy to clean: Won't harbor dust mites, bacteria, mildew, dirt, allergens and mold.

• Polished concrete makes the surface 400 times more abrasion resistant:  Unlike coatings and tile, once the surface has been scratched, the coating needs to be reapplied or the tile needs to be replaced.

The Versatility of Polished Concrete:

Because polishing is a multi-step process, clients can choose the level of sheen from matte finish to high-gloss that meets their maintenance and aesthetic requirements. This versatility makes polished concrete an ideal flooring material for a variety of applications.

The most common places polished concrete is used include:

• Industrial warehouses & warehouse outlets

• Aviation

  Private residences

• Retail stores

• Grocery stores

• Schools

• Hotels and Restaurants

• Office buildings

• Auto Industry