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Most Popular Decorative concrete Floors in Toronto
The residence of the biggest city in Canada, are embracing the Eco-friendly movement towards decorative concrete flooring for their homes and business. Canada's leading Interior Designers, Architects, and clients of new construction and renovation project throughout the greater Toronto area and southern Ontario are specifying some form of decorative concrete flooring. Base on statistics we have reviewed, the top 3 most popular decorative concrete floor finish that you'll find prowling around southern Ontario is polished concrete, concrete staining and clear coated with epoxy concrete floors.
Polished concrete is commonly found in showrooms, galleries big box stores, and the finest homes and condos in the southern Ontario area. Polished concrete offers contemporary appearance, hypoallergenic, with plenty of character, easy to clean, and will last a lifetime.
Stained concrete floor has a natural colour stone like appearance that no tile or granite floor can match in appearance. There are numerous Eco-Stains and dye colours to select when creating a concrete floor of your liking which explains stained concrete flooring popularity.
Last but not least, epoxy coated concrete flooring is an economical and practical way to dress up any existing concrete floor. When a concrete floor is mechanically profiled and clear coat of quality epoxy is applied, it turns concrete floor from a dull, porous finish to a dust free, high gloss "polished like" look for about the same price as cheap vinyl flooring that require constant expensive maintenance. As such, is the reason why epoxy coated concrete floors is another very popular choice in concrete flooring choices.
For those who thought that concrete can't be the floor of choice, think again! Decorative concrete flooring is not just Eco-Friendly, but rather decorative concrete floor is as beautiful as unique and is the floor of the future.
Concrete Art-FX Inc., specializes in decorative concrete floor finishes in the greater Toronto, Mississauga, and southern Ontario region.
Polished concrete is commonly found in showrooms, galleries big box stores, and the finest homes and condos in the southern Ontario area. Polished concrete offers contemporary appearance, hypoallergenic, with plenty of character, easy to clean, and will last a lifetime.
Stained concrete floor has a natural colour stone like appearance that no tile or granite floor can match in appearance. There are numerous Eco-Stains and dye colours to select when creating a concrete floor of your liking which explains stained concrete flooring popularity.
Last but not least, epoxy coated concrete flooring is an economical and practical way to dress up any existing concrete floor. When a concrete floor is mechanically profiled and clear coat of quality epoxy is applied, it turns concrete floor from a dull, porous finish to a dust free, high gloss "polished like" look for about the same price as cheap vinyl flooring that require constant expensive maintenance. As such, is the reason why epoxy coated concrete floors is another very popular choice in concrete flooring choices.
For those who thought that concrete can't be the floor of choice, think again! Decorative concrete flooring is not just Eco-Friendly, but rather decorative concrete floor is as beautiful as unique and is the floor of the future.
Concrete Art-FX Inc., specializes in decorative concrete floor finishes in the greater Toronto, Mississauga, and southern Ontario region.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Epoxy Floor or Polished Concrete?
When people notice a shiny concrete surface, they automatically assume it must be polished concrete. However not all glossy concrete floors are actually polished concrete. There are a number of ways to make the concrete floor shine.
1. Coat concrete with polyurethane coatings
2. Clear 100% solid resins epoxy floor coatings
3. Naturally polished concrete floors
Polished concrete is extremely popular floor finish often seen in galleries, showrooms, professional office and luxury homes. It is easy to maintain, scratch resistant, skid resistant and does not require topical re-coating.
The epoxy floor coatings and polyurethane sealers work well to bring out to reveal the texture of the concrete floor slab, and leaves a high gloss topical finish. When 100% epoxy coating is applied properly the appearance of the concrete floor looks as if a thin sheet of glass was installed over the concrete slab, due to thickness the epoxy coating is applied onto the concrete surface. Polyurethane although also provides a high gloss finish, polyurethane sealers are applied at a paper thin coats, and will likely require several applications of polyurethane before a build up is achieved. It is also important to mention to get the best results from clear coating the concrete floor surface, it is imperative that the concrete floor is mechanically profiled with a concrete grinding maching to ensure adhession and to expose the character the of the concrete floor surface.
1. Coat concrete with polyurethane coatings
2. Clear 100% solid resins epoxy floor coatings
3. Naturally polished concrete floors
Polished concrete is extremely popular floor finish often seen in galleries, showrooms, professional office and luxury homes. It is easy to maintain, scratch resistant, skid resistant and does not require topical re-coating.
The epoxy floor coatings and polyurethane sealers work well to bring out to reveal the texture of the concrete floor slab, and leaves a high gloss topical finish. When 100% epoxy coating is applied properly the appearance of the concrete floor looks as if a thin sheet of glass was installed over the concrete slab, due to thickness the epoxy coating is applied onto the concrete surface. Polyurethane although also provides a high gloss finish, polyurethane sealers are applied at a paper thin coats, and will likely require several applications of polyurethane before a build up is achieved. It is also important to mention to get the best results from clear coating the concrete floor surface, it is imperative that the concrete floor is mechanically profiled with a concrete grinding maching to ensure adhession and to expose the character the of the concrete floor surface.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Polished Concrete Floors for Life
When you hire a company to diamond grind the concrete floor and polish it, the end result is you are getting a floor finish itended to last a lifetime. Polished concrete is an extremely hard, skid resistant surface that resembles closely to natural stone textures seen in nature.
Suffers of allergies, or when hygiene is a priority, and budget is a concern, then polished concrete is the floor of choice. Polished concrete flooring can be found in all types of high traffic big box stores for it's low cost and durability, to art galleries displaying million dollar art works for it's contemprary look, and natural richness. Polished concrete and decorative concrete floor finishes are growing at a healthy 20% per year in rsidential homes, and by 25% in retail and commercial business settings in Ontario, Canada. and we expect this trend to continue for next 7 to 10 years.
Colorful Metallic Epoxy Coating on Concrete Floors
The final floor finish is highly durable and unique one of a kind floor. Metallic epoxy finish reflects lighting slightly different pending from what angle you view the floor. I highly recommend metallic epoxy flooring for it's visual appeal, chemical resistance, and overall value.
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