Polished Concrete

POLISHED CONCRETE

Concrete Polishing is a continuous, multiple-step grinding process using increasingly finer diamond abrasives until the surface becomes highly polished with a deep gloss. While some installers “dry-grind” from beginning to end, IIS “wet-grinds” when using all metal-bond diamond abrasives, and when using resin-bonded diamond abrasives with grit sizes coarser than 150. IIS recycles wet slurry with state-of-the-art filtering equipment (watch video), which separates the cementitious slurry into clean, re-usable water and hard cementitious“cakes” which can be used as fill.

Following wet-grinding, 200 grit resin-bond diamonds and finer are used in dry-grinding the balance of the polishing process. Powerful industrial vacuums attached to our 30 horsepower grinders to efficiently minimize airborne dust. Dry-grinding is typically accomplished using resin bond diamonds in grit sizes of 100, 200, 400, 800, 1,500 and 3,000.

IIS is a Certified Installer of ProSoCo Consolideck and L&M Permashine polishing systems.

Polished Concrete

1. Polished concrete with and without color dyes.
2. Polished concrete for industrial use in manufacturing plants and environments
3. Polished concrete for commercial functions.
4. Re-polishing concrete, terrazzo and other decorative flooring.
5. Maintenance of polished surfaces.