Dry Concrete Polishing

Lay out advantages for grinding and polishing concrete with a dry process.

Overview of The Process With Dry Polishing Concrete

With advancements in quality dust control for high performance floor resurfacing equipment, dry polishing concrete has significant advantages over wet polishing procedures. It allows preparatory grinding and polishing to take place in a tiered system enabling higher efficiency for larger projects. In our book, efficiency affords project cost savings.

Wet Polishing Concrete

Wet polishing requires the added disadvantage of continual water source and the slurry that must be collected and than disposed of in an environmentally responsible manner. To collect and dispose of, adds cost and project time specially with larger floor spaces.

Deeper that course grit cut, the more slurry there will be.

Process for wet polishing concrete however is beneficial for nil aggregate, surface polish highlighting the natural patina finish of steel trowel, concrete surface cement paste finish.

Dry Polishing Concrete

The dry polishing concrete process is not completely dustless simply due to the many limitations. Items such as neat processing of concrete stairs, benches or seats, around fixtures and area perimeters in most cases with hand held tooling.

However the majority of the dry concrete polishing floor machine work, 95 -98% of generated dust particles within the foot print diameter of our floor equipment will be collected via purpose built high filtration HEPA dust collection / extraction units.

Wet Polishing versus Dry Polishing

As mentioned above, wet honing and polishing does require consistent water supply. The advantage wet polishing versus dry polishing, wet polishing is more effective with preparing the concrete floor.

The harder the concrete surface is, the more reliant we will be with using Durafloor pucks or Hiperflex copper transitions.

Surface polish / natural finish polish benefits with combining wet and dry polishing stages to hit the results Ultimate Floors has mastered. Considering our first surface polish was in 2006, we constructed a proven process that is a rock solid.

Wet and Dry Combined

The dry polishing concrete process is not completely dustless simply due to the many limitations of neat processing of concrete stairs, benches or seats, around fixtures and area perimeters in most cases with hand held tooling. However with the majority of floor machine concrete polishing works, 95 -98% of generated dust particles within the foot print diameter of the floor equipment will be collected via purpose built high filtration dust collection / extraction units.

The dry polishing process is not only advantageous for many reason, it allows floor polishing works to take placed with minimal down time for existing commercial businesses. Each completed stage is immediately accessible in a controlled manner for follow on finishing trades or put in to service on completion of floor re-furbishing upgrade. Our mechanical dry polishing concrete procedures are determined by the structural concretes general surface suitability for the desired finish criteria.

When do we dry grind and polish as a complete process?

In achieving the optimum outcome, Ultimate Floors will remove 1mm to 4mm of the concrete’s surface for majority of applications with suitable metal bonded diamond grinding and honing configurations. Extensive floor refurbishing can have up to 10mm of concrete wear surface removed during the preparatory grinding stages.

Regardless of the initial floor grinding works, the concrete may treated with one of three types of liquid densifiers followed with a range of resin bonded diamond stages resulting in sheen levels from low gloss satin to super gloss. The results achievable is simply amazing, contact us today to learn how you investment benefits from our concrete floor polishing processes.