Concrete Grinding Services
Concrete grinding is a versatile and essential service for both new and existing concrete surfaces. It's the key to achieving a perfectly smooth, level, and durable finish. Whether you're preparing a floor for a new coating, fixing an uneven slab, or polishing an old surface to a beautiful shine, concrete grinding and polishing is the perfect solution to create a strong and long-lasting foundation.
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Types of Concrete Grinding Services
Browse our comprehensive concrete grinding services below to find the ideal solution for your project and achieve the perfect floor finish you've been looking for.
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Floor Leveling & Preparation: This foundational service is crucial for creating a smooth and even surface. We grind down high spots and fill low spots, ensuring your floor is perfectly level and ready for new tile, hardwood, carpet, or an epoxy coating.
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Polished Concrete: For a sleek, modern, and high-end look, we can grind and polish your concrete to a beautiful, reflective sheen. This option is incredibly durable, easy to clean, and provides a sophisticated, contemporary aesthetic that’s perfect for both residential and commercial spaces.
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Concrete Surface Restoration: Revitalize old, worn, or stained concrete floors. Our grinding process removes years of damage, old coatings, and imperfections, revealing the clean, original concrete beneath and preparing it for a fresh finish.
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Coating and Adhesive Removal: Before you can apply a new finish, old coatings, adhesives, and epoxies need to be completely removed. We use specialized grinders to strip away stubborn materials, ensuring a clean and strong bond for your new flooring.
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Decorative Concrete Grinding: Achieve unique decorative effects by grinding the surface to expose the aggregates (pebbles, stones) within the concrete mix. This technique provides a unique, textured, and visually appealing finish that adds character to any space.
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Trip Hazard Removal: Don't let uneven concrete be a safety risk. We can grind down uneven joints, cracks, and raised sections on sidewalks, walkways, and floors to create a smooth, safe, and ACA-compliant surface.
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Concrete Grinding for Dust Control: Our equipment includes integrated dust collection systems to ensure a clean work environment. This is particularly important for interior projects where minimizing airborne dust is critical.
Concrete Polishing Services: Enhancing Durability and Aesthetics
We offer a range of professional concrete polishing services designed to meet diverse functional and aesthetic needs, from high-gloss showroom floors to durable industrial surfaces.
1. Full-Service Mechanical Polish (The Standard)
This is the most common and robust form of concrete polishing, achieved through a multi-step grinding and honing process using progressively finer diamond abrasives.
Key Features
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Multiple Grits: The process involves grinding through numerous abrasive stages (typically from 4 to 15+ steps).
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High Durability: Maximizes the density and strength of the concrete surface.
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Customizable Finish: Offers the widest range of sheen levels.
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Best For: Retail stores, offices, showrooms, public spaces, and residential homes where durability and high aesthetic appeal are essential.
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Benefit: Provides the longest-lasting, lowest-maintenance, and most visually appealing polished floor.
2. Sheen Level Options (Customizable Finish)
You can choose the level of reflection, or "sheen," that best suits your space's lighting and aesthetic requirements.
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Low Sheen / Matte (100–400 Grit Finish):
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Look: Minimal to no reflection; a smooth, clean, wet-look finish.
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Ideal For: Industrial areas, workshops, and basements where glare reduction is important.
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Medium Sheen / Satin (800 Grit Finish):
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Look: A clean, soft sheen with light reflection.
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Ideal For: Offices, warehouses, and functional spaces that need a balance of aesthetics and practicality.
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High Sheen / Gloss (1500 Grit Finish):
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Look: Significant mirror-like reflection.
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Ideal For: Showrooms, high-end retail, and lobbies where maximum visual impact is desired.
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Maximum Sheen / Ultra-Gloss (3000+ Grit Finish):
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Look: A deep, wet, mirror-like finish that dramatically enhances lighting.
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Ideal For: Exclusive retail environments and architectural features.
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3. Color and Sealing Treatments
Beyond the polish itself, we offer treatments to enhance the floor's look and performance.
Concrete Staining & Dyeing:
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Feature: Application of deep-penetrating stains or dyes before the final polishing steps.
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Benefit: Introduces rich, permanent color to the floor (e.g., earth tones, vibrant hues) without covering the unique characteristics of the concrete.
Densification & Sealing:
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Feature: Application of a chemical densifier (usually lithium or sodium silicate) during the polishing process.
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Benefit: The densifier chemically hardens the concrete, increases resistance to abrasion, and significantly improves stain protection and longevity. This is standard for all quality polishing.
4. Specialized Polishing Services
We handle specific project types requiring targeted techniques and considerations.
Salt & Pepper Exposure Polish:
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Feature: A surface grind that exposes a small, uniform pattern of fine aggregate (sand and small stones), resembling "salt and pepper."
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Benefit: A subtle, classic look that minimizes deep grinding and is cost-effective.
Full Aggregate Exposure Polish (Terrace Look):
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Feature: Deep grinding to fully expose large aggregate (river rock, crushed stone) embedded in the concrete.
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Benefit: Creates a decorative, terrazzo-like appearance; often required when significant floor leveling or damage removal is necessary.
Overlay Polishing:
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Feature: Polishing of thin cementitious overlays (micro-toppings) applied over existing concrete.
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Benefit: Ideal for renewing old, heavily damaged, or uneven concrete surfaces without full replacement.
Why Choose Polished Concrete?
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Cost-Effective: Lower installation cost than many traditional flooring materials.
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Low Maintenance: Requires only routine cleaning; eliminates the need for waxing or stripping.
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Sustainable: Uses the existing floor slab and avoids the materials and adhesives required for cover-up options.
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Increased Light Reflectivity: Reduces energy costs by making the space brighter.
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Hypoallergenic: Does not trap dust, allergens, or mold.
Precision Concrete Grinding: Leveling and Surface Preparation Services
Our concrete grinding services focus on mechanically correcting surface imperfections to ensure your floor is perfectly flat, smooth, and prepared for any finish, from decorative coatings to standard floor coverings.
1. High-Spot Removal & Trip Hazard Mitigation
This is the most common form of grinding for leveling, targeting specific, localized issues.
Service Goal: To eliminate bumps, ridges, uneven joints, and other elevated areas on the slab.
Method: We use diamond grinders with coarse metal bond tools to aggressively remove excess concrete material from high spots.
Best For:
Safety: Removing trip hazards from sidewalks, factory floors, or uneven garage slabs.
Seam Correction: Flattening uneven concrete pour seams or control joint ridges.
Result: A visibly smoother, safer surface that meets basic installation requirements.
2. Slab Flattening (Slab Correction/Profiling)
This process is necessary when the entire slab has unacceptable undulations (waviness) that exceed standard flooring tolerances.
Service Goal: To achieve a uniform, consistent flatness across the entire floor area, essential for large-format tile, thin-set applications, or seamless resin flooring (epoxy).
Method: A systematic, aggressive, and often multi-pass grinding process guided by a long, straight edge or laser level to identify and flatten humps and swells across the floor.
Best For:
Commercial kitchens, hospitals, or any area requiring high-precision flatness for equipment functionality.
Substrates for polished concrete or epoxy coatings where perfection is visible.
3. Grind & Patch Leveling
This combined method is used to correct floors with both high and low areas. It often provides the most economical solution for preparing a structurally sound but uneven floor.
Service Goal: To bring the entire slab surface within the necessary tolerance for new flooring installation.
Method:
Grind High Spots: Aggressively grind down the high points on the slab.
Patch Low Spots: Apply a specialized cementitious or self-leveling underlayment (SLU) to fill in the remaining low spots, creating a seamless, flat plane.
Best For: Floors that will receive vinyl, VCT, or carpet tile, where a perfectly flat surface is necessary to prevent telegraphing imperfections through the finished product.
Result: A smooth, fully prepared substrate ready for adhesive and final floor covering.
4. Coating and Adhesive Removal
While not strictly "leveling," aggressive grinding is the primary method for prepping a floor that has a leveling issue concealed by old materials.
Service Goal: To strip away old, failing coatings, paint, adhesives, thin-set mortar, or sealers to expose the raw concrete underneath.
Method: Aggressive grinding with specialized diamond, carbide, or PCD (Polycrystalline Diamond) tools designed for maximum material removal.
Best For:
Removing old vinyl tile adhesive (mastic) or carpet glue.
Stripping thick, failing epoxy, urethane, or paint coatings.
Result: A clean, roughened surface (creating a proper Concrete Surface Profile or CSP) that ensures maximum bonding strength for new leveling compounds or coatings.
Key Benefits of Grinding for Leveling
Dust Control: We utilize powerful, commercial-grade vacuum systems to ensure a virtually dust-free grinding environment.
Cost-Effective: Grinding is often significantly more affordable and faster than completely removing and repouring a concrete slab.
Surface Preparation: Grinding not only levels but also opens the pores of the concrete, ensuring new materials and adhesives bond correctly.
Immediate Use: The leveled floor can typically receive new coatings or floor coverings much faster than poured leveling compounds alone.