Terrazzo Restoration

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Terrazzo Restoration

SafeDry has been doing terrazzo restoration for many years. We test many products and systems to insure we give our customers the best, longest lasting floor possible. Several years ago we made a decision to switch our system to use an HTC grinder.

At the point we changed we were using the same machine almost all our competition used. We were using a weighted swing machine. That machine weighed around 150 pounds. Change meant a significant investment for us. A swing machine runs from $800 to $1,000. Our new system would cost us a $20,000 investment. Since we clanged to our HTC 500 grinder we have never looked back. I have never felt we could match our new system with the old one. 

The new system came with one big problem. It made the floors look so good that we had to learn how to step up our game in edging. Floor edging is very important and the better you make a floor look the more you have to work on edging.

In the past couple of years we have tested many new systems and implemented new steps in order to maximize our finished shine. None of our steps include any topical finish or sealer. We use an impregnating sealer the penetrates the floor and fills the pours to protect the floor. When we finish with your terrazzo floor the shine you see is the floor, not the illusion of a shinny floor.
We never recrystallize terrazzo floors. This process means the floor needs buffed every one or two years. With our system, under normal where, your floor will not need any polishing for seven to ten years. We use only diamond grinding and polishing. We show our HTC 500 grinder, but never share all our steps.
SafeDry has spent many late nights figuring out the best products and which order they are best used in. We are not going to show other how to replicate what we do. In short our complete system is secret. The results of our terrazzo restoration system are evident. Check out how great our floors are looking these days.

Terrazzo Polishing

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Terrazzo Polishing

This video is from a terrazzo restoration we did in Leesburg. The job took three days and included repairing several chips in the floor caused by past nail removal. This terrazzo floor is over 50 years old but looks better then the day it was finished. SafeDry gladly covers the Gainesville, Ocala and Leesburg area, as well as all of central and west Florida. 

Terrazzo Restoration Sarasota Rocks

Most of these terrazzo floors on these videos were done in the Sarasota Florida area. Safe Dry covers all of central and West Florida for terrazzo restoration, concrete polishing and acid staining.

Safe Dry Kicks off www.TerrazzoSarasota.com

At Safe Dry we have just fired up our new http://www.terrazzosarasota.com/ website. Please check it out as we have a Terrazzo Cleaning and Terrazzo Repair pages. check out some of our new pictures too. Many of these pictures are on www.safedry.com/terrazzo_restoration.html

What is Terrazzo and where Did it Come From?

When I tell people that I restore terrazzo many respond, "what is terrazzo?" Terrazzo is seeing a big comeback these days. Every airport I have been to has terrazzo in some areas of the airport. Terrazzo owes its rebirth to its extreme durability, low maintenance and label as a green floor. With today's diamond polishing technology is is also very slip resistant.
Terrazzo's origin date back over five hundred years. the name Terrazzo comes from the word terrazza meaning terrace. Its origins date back to the 1400s when Venetian workers took scrap pieces left over from their work for use on their terraces. They would embed the chips into the clay. eventual the workers learned to embed the chips into mortar. Goat's milk was the sealer of choice. The process helped to reserve and also gave the surface a wet marble look.
Terrazzo was a preferred flooring in Florida from the mid 1950s to the early 1970s. I believe it was chosen for its cooling effect. terrazzo is much more energy efficient then tile or carpet. I have had many customers tell me their electric bill fell substantially after they pulled up their flooring and went back to the terrazzo.
Terrazzo today is made up of Portland cement often mixed with epoxy to accelerate the curing time. At a ratio of around 2-1 marble or other stone, shell or glass are added to the mix. This is poured as an overlay to cover the concrete foundation, The thickness is around 5/8 to 3/4 of an inch.
Safe Dry we restore terrazzo to a shine not possible in the 1950s-1970s. With today's technology we can create a floor that is slip resistant, low maintenance and beautiful. Give us a call and we can walk you through our multi step process. Log onto SafeDry.com or just give us a call. 877-824-0501