Terrazzo Floor Demolition

A team of skilled terrazzo craftsmen with specialized grinding and polishing tools begins by wet or dry grinding the floor using 30 40 grit grinding pads on a floor grinding machine.

Terrazzo floor demolition.

I was going to go at it with my bosch demo gun and a tile chipping bit. Pouring the floor may allow the use of higher end materials that aren t available in pre made tiles so this can also raise the cost. Removing a terrazzo floor is a bit trickier than other types of tile floors because the tiles themselves are so heavy and thick. We are removing thin set from a terrazzo floor.

Poured terrazzo flooring cost. Video of the day volume 0. After we are done we will restore the terrazzo floor by diamond polishing. For poured floors you ll pay between 25 and 70 per square foot for materials depending on the choices you make about aggregate and pattern.

Have approximately 400sf to remove. Hope someone can advise as to how to remove terrazzo. You can attempt to remove the stain yourself or contact a professional stone restoration contractor. Here is what will need to be done.

When terrazzo is poured in situ onto large areas of floor metal expansion or divider strips are used to delineate the floor into sections to avoid cracking the strips are laid in the parts of the floor that are most likely to crack which should force the crack to happen along the join rather than in the center of the section. I ve been told that surface grinding and a good mortar over top works but the height is an issue here and needs to be taken down to the bare concrete. You will need to use a hammer drill which functions as a mini jackhammer to remove most ot the terrazzo.