Concrete Polishing is now a popular method and designs used by home owners and designers to boost their real estate sales. This does not only apply to our concrete flooring but also with our counter tops.
The counter tops looks will vary with contractor having different specialties in making it beautiful. Basically a polish concrete counter top has a natural look to it. They compliment or go with other natural looking materials like stone, wood or brick.
Materials like stains, coloring pigments, various aggregates and epoxy coating helps make the polished concrete counter top texture look and feel like a marble, granite and limestone.
What are they ways to make a polished concrete counter top? Contractors either makes these polished concrete counter tops in their own shops or at the site. Depending on the specific need of the client the contractor can use a ready made mold at their shop or creating the design from scratch at the site.
Cement, light weight aggregates and a combination of additives are the materials used for the counter tops. Fiber reinforcement, silica fume pozzolan, and acrylic are some additives that contractor uses.
An example of fiber reinforcement is like structural steel, wire mesh and fiberglass, contractors will use one or more of these materials. The next process will be to let the counter tops cured. After which the contractor uses a machine with progressively finer diamond polishing stones. This will help make the concrete counter top shine.
There are different kinds to sealers available to contractors and each contractor has their own sealers that they like to use. An example of a sealer is the epoxy sealer. This epoxy sealer is harder than concrete and less expensive then other brands. It will take two weeks for a double coated epoxy sealer to dry. Yes, it may be a little costly but it is worth the excellent quality that you will get in return.
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