Save big money on terrazzo floor maintenance

The terrazzo floor is a prime example where one can save big money on its maintenance. Traditionally we cover these floors with floor finish then we polish or burnish them to remove the scuffmarks. Periodically, we strip the floor and the cycle starts all over again. This is one very expensive way to keep terrazzo floor clean and shiny. You can save half the labour, almost all the chemicals if these floors are polished with diamonds. In addition we can make these floors green and environmentally friendly.

Most terrazzo made from marble chips and cement. The cement is mixed with marble chips. The terrazzo can be polishe the same way as concrete can be polished with diamonds. After this process it will shine and look beautiful for a VERY LONG TIME.

This is how terrazzo floors were treated for hundreds of years. When someone decided to put wax on it, polish it, strip it, wax it, polish it, stipp it etc... This practice became a bad habit, nobody questioned the value or the the cost of the process. As of today, we are spending a staggering amount of money on something that is redundant that is, waxing terrazzo floor.

After diamond polishing you never have to remove the floor finish from the terrazzo with stripper and discard this highly corrosive soup in the sewer, because there is no floor finish to remove hence we don't need the stripper. Because you just do not coat this floor with anything. The bare marble chips meant to shine in their natural beauty.

The labour to remove scuffmarks from the waxed floor is often over looked. You don't need to remove the shoes scuff mark from uncoated natural terrazzo because it won't take any. You cannot scuff it.

In building with high traffic such as schools, it takes 1500 people to walk off 42% of the floor finish from the surface. Usually by the 6th week after the floor has been coated, the floor looks worn. In contrast, the diamond polished floor keep shining.

Including the initial diamond honing cost, in 5 years time there is about 50% saving in labour and 80% in chemicals and other supplies.

This is how you can save big money on terrazzo floor maintenance.