How To Get A Smooth Finish On Concrete Floor

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How to get a smooth finish on concrete floor.

How to finish concrete smooth with a power trowel. Not just your regular concrete finish but stamped colored and exposed aggregate concrete fini. Putting a smooth durable finish on concrete is a skill you can only master with the proper set of tools and practice. Try to move quickly except where noted otherwise so you can finish before the concrete dries especially on a hot day.

Here s what you need to know to shape and smooth fresh concrete into an attractive long lasting surface. Other common problems are spalling pop outs and delaminating. A diy polished concrete floor is not as intimidating a project as it seems. As a concrete finisher i can tell you learning how to use a power trowel will take some practice.

Brushed concrete is a type of finish in contrast to the smooth finish that people may refer to as finished concrete the smooth finish is standard but brushed concrete provides certain advantages and also disadvantages that you don t have with a smooth finish. How to smooth a rough garage floor. After a floor slab is placed and screeded off the finisher. With the right equipment time and patience you can use a grinding and floor polishing machine to get your rough and raw concrete floor polished to a highly lustrous sheen.

Exposed concrete floor and finishes its construction and applications. Creating these finishes requires different tools. Mike haduck shows a job where he smooth finish concrete all my videos are my ways and ideas i always suggest anyone doing work consult professional help. If you have a large concrete floor or slab the best way to get a smooth finish is to use a power trowel.

Swirl finish is one of the most exceptional types of concrete finish that is generated by smearing the concrete surface in a uniformly overlapping circular pattern. There s more to concrete than just pouring it out and watching it harden. Read more on exposed aggregate finish. We ll show you the tools and how to use them for each step of the concrete finishing process.

Even a novice diy er can accomplish it. The local home depot stores i do business with 3 within 40 miles have hard troweled concrete floors with a sealer. A float compacts the concrete surface giving it a smooth look.