Author: Matt Pluples

When most people visualize concrete floors, they visualize dull gray floors. The time has come for them to realize that is no longer true. Concrete flooring has become an attractive option for the home or business. Concrete can be polished, stained and sealed to create beautiful, long lasting floors. Concrete floors are the perfect option for busy, high traffic areas.

In the past, concrete was only considered for floors where it did not matter what they looked like. Either it was expected that the floors would be damaged by traffic and stains incurred by the business, or they would be covered up. Now, epoxy flooring Brisbane can be economical and durable with the added bonus of being beautiful, as well as being low maintenance flooring.

Concrete is a surprisingly porous material. Water, oil, dirt and grease can find its way into the concrete. Not only does this stain the concrete, but it can also damage the concrete. This may mean it will have to be replaced sooner then it should have to be.

Whether the concrete is outside of the house or the inside, to keep the new look and ensure that the concrete stays beautiful, it should be sealed. Left unsealed, concrete can start having problems that include growing mold, mildew and algae. Sealing the concrete can solve these problems.

For a greener home, consider epoxy flooring Brisbane. Concrete flooring is suitable for any area of the home. Polished concrete brisbane can have a glass like look that reflects light and can help cut energy costs. Thanks to new methods, concrete flooring can be an attractive solution for the home, as well as business. Not only is it easy to care for, but it also has the added benefit of being healthier, as well. Other kinds of flooring can offer a refuge to dust mites and other allergens. Carpets are especially bad in that regard.

No matter the reason, concrete flooring can provide a healthier, beautiful, and economical choice for any floor. Polished concrete resists stains, is easy to clean, and can shrug off the damage high traffic areas can cause, with out marring the finish.

Polishing a granite floor is not only a cheaper alternative to other types of floors such as wood or granite; it is also a great alternative aesthetically speaking. In fact a polished granite floor can look just as good as a granite or marble floor. Many people who have seen polished concrete are simply stunned when they see it for the first time. What most people do not realize is that polished granite floors have the same mirror like finish, which you normally associate with marble or granite.

The good news is that this can be done in Brisbane. Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd concrete polishing services is a premier granite polishing Brisbane based home business that is capable of giving your floor a face-lift. Not only that, this company is also capable of doing concrete grinding and concrete sealing or restoration, or any other concrete floor related maintenance service. Polished concrete Brisbane gives its customers some of the best finishing jobs for their concrete floors. What makes this company unique is perhaps that they give a 10 year warranty for the floors they have worked on.

The process behind polishing a concrete floor is simple. First a series of work is done using abrasives and afterwards diamond tipped polishers are used to finish the job. If the client does not like the colour of finished concrete then no problem, the customer will be able to choose from a wide selection of colours as part of the finish. The main benefits of a polished concrete Brisbane floor are as follows.

• It meets and exceeds slip resistant standards, giving you a much safer floor to walk/work on.
• It will eliminate penetration by liquids such as water, oil and other chemicals.
• Polished concrete floors are well known for low maintenance requirements, compared to other floors.
• Easy to clean tire marks left behind by equipments such as trucks and forklifts. This makes polished concrete floors ideal for industrial houses.
• Polished concrete floors are much denser compared to other floors. This means it is much more durable and abrasion resistant.

For all these reasons and more, polished concrete Brisbane is becoming the floor of choice for businesses and homes alike.

The NHMRC defines indoor air as any non-industrial indoor space where a person spends a period of an hour or more in any day. This can include the home, office, schools, shopping centers, hospitals and restaurants. It is important to take the correct steps to improve the indoor air quality ensuring it is at a high standard to protect the health and well-being of your family, customers and employees.

This is particularly the case as Australians may spend 90% or more of their time indoors. Further, it is generally accepted that exposure to indoor air pollutants such as dust mites, dust, bacteria, pet dander, moulds, and other pollutants can pose health risks and contribute to respiratory disease, allergies and asthma. Many people have allergies that affect their daily living. Allergy to dust mite excreta is one of the most common allergies worldwide.

 

The most common problem with carpets – dust mites!

Dust mites are tiny bugs that live in your home. They measure about 1/10th of millimetre in length, which is smaller than the full-stop at the end of this sentence. Dust mites feed off of pet and human dander (dead skin cells in the air and on surfaces in our homes), and their waste is a major cause of allergies and asthma. Symptoms of dust mites allergy include sneezing, runny nose, nasal congestion and itchy nose. If you have asthma, dust mites can cause you to wheeze more and need more asthma medicine. You may have more symptoms at night, when you are laying in a bed infested with dust mites. So, cutting down the number of dust mites in the home or is an important step if you or someone in your family has allergies or asthma.

Dust mites love warm, humid areas filled with dust. Carpets are great places for them to live. Regular thorough carpet cleaning can make a slight difference in the number of dust mites in your home; however it is nearly impossible to reduce the numbers in carpets quiet dramatically. Every time someone walks over carpet, dust mites are spread into the air, taking approx 2 hours to settle. Babies and young children crawling on the carpet are surely especially at risk.

While you cannot completely rid your home of dust mites, you can certainly take some steps to reduce their numbers. Recent proven testing had found that the hard surface floor had significantly fewer mites than the nylon, wool and poly-propylene carpets. Consider removing wall-to-wall carpeting from bedrooms and other frequently used spaces and replace with a seamless polished concrete floor. Carpets trap dust, dust mites, skin, pet dander, mould, spores, pollen, and chemicals that can trigger allergies or asthma-like symptoms. Polished concrete is a very economical, low maintenance solution also protecting your family’s health buy improving the indoor air quality. Since removing your wall-to-wall carpet is an ambitious step, balance the cost and hassle with how miserable your allergies or asthma are making you.

Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd can transform your existing concrete floor into a glass-like finish which is smooth, low-maintenance and cost effective. This process involves no harmful chemicals or coatings, only using state of the art diamond polishing tools and techniques. For new projects, there are an unlimited pallet of different aggregate and different coloured oxides to match any style and colour scheme. So instead of covering your concrete with carpet, tiles or vinyl which increases the harmful bacteria and allergen levels in your home why not protect yourself and your family by appointing Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd to polish the concrete.

If you suffer from any of the above issues and would like your existing floor coverings (carpet, tiles, timber and vinyl) removed, or if you are engaging in a new project, why not try polished concrete. Take a look at some of our recent project photos and contact us for more information today.

Our highly trained professional team can offer an effortless flooring solution to suit every budget and flooring requirements, servicing all areas of SEQ including, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. With our extensive experience and personalised service we will endeavour to deliver the highest quality concrete polishing for your project.

Finding a concrete floor polishing specialists just got a whole lot easier. Endorsed by the Concrete Industry Association of Queensland, Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd is Brisbane’s premier supplier of polished concrete services.

 

So what are the top three things you need to know from the specialist in concrete floor polishing?

1. Durability

Standard coating (epoxy or poly-urethane) or sealed polished concrete, tiled, stone, timber and vinyl floors needs swift attention. Regular everyday use of the floor attracts dirt, grit and dust. This acts like sandpaper on the surface creating inevitable scratches causing wear and damage to the surface. Once this coating wears, the floor then has to be stripped, cleaned and re-sealed, which results in downtime for your business or a major inconvenience for your home. Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd’s Hiperfloor and Signature finished polished concrete eliminates this problem by using our exclusive advanced diamond polishing process creating a high gloss finish without the use of film coat sealers. This exclusive finish will not scratch and wear from everyday use, and there is no need for stripping and re-sealing! just ask us for a free demonstration! We deliver a flooring system that lasts for decades. That is why we back it with our exclusive 10 year warranty!

2. The Healthy Option

Household dust mites have been known to be associated with allergies since the 1960′s and have become a focus over the years for their involvement with respiratory ailments. These mites are known to concentrate in carpets with long fibers. Tiled grout lines also harbor mold, dirt, oils and mildew which creates a build up of bacteria and germs causing an unlimited pallet of harmful diseases. Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd’s diamond polished concrete floor eliminates dust mites that gather in the carpet fibers, also eliminating harmful bacteria that gets trapped in the tiled grout lines. This is due to its seamless abilities, creating a very easy to maintain, clean allergy free environment for your home or commercial property.

3. Visual appeal

For new projects, polished concrete has an unlimited design selection, allowing you to choose the colour of aggregate and cement oxides from a wide variety of options, prior to the installation of your new concrete floor. For existing concrete flooring, we can remove the old floor coverings (e.g tiles, timber, vinyl and carpet) to transform your floor to a Durable, Healthy, Low-maintenance surface. We also have a large range of 25 different coloured water-based dies. These can be added to your existing concrete floor during the polishing process, creating a very versatile flooring solution for any commercial, industrial and residential project.

 

Why choose Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd?

By only using the highest quality machinery and diamond tooling, combined with “our trade secret” we achieve an exclusive High-gloss finish that is at least 2 times more reflective, has at least double the clarity and durability of the standard diamond polished concrete finishes available on the market today. We are so confident with our finish that we back it with a 10 year warranty! You’re floor is “Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd”… We treat every floor as though its our own, ensuring that your floor is always at its best on completion, leaving a floor that you will be proud to own! We work hard to get our floors level and prepared prior to treating the concrete and delivering a high quality polished finish. Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd provides our customers with the finest polished concrete finish that only the trained, experienced specialists can attain.

There are some awful examples in this growing industry where floors are polished and finished incorrectly by inexperienced (cowboys) contractors. Beware… these finishes do not last! All too often we have been asked to repair and re-polish these outcomes, resulting in a costly experience for you the client who is now paying for a floor to be completed twice.

The top 3 Do’s before choosing a polished concrete contractor:

1. Make sure all polished concrete contractors are BSA Licensed
2. Ask to see previous work, samples, photos and client’s testimonials.
3. Do your research, when choosing polished concrete; you have to compare “apples to apples”. No two polished concrete finishes are the same! When buying a new car, we don’t make our decision based on the vehicles price do we? Decisions should be made on quality, durability and the ongoing reliability.

In some industries you will find inferior products being sold without warranties and any ongoing support. However, as specialist in concrete floor polishing, Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd provides our customers with an industry exclusive 10 year written warranty on our diamond polished concrete finish. Also providing a first class on-going service, including 24hr advice and assistance with every-day cleaning and maintenance.

Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd delivers our customers with an effortless flooring solution. In Brisbane, Tweed Heads, Gold Coast and on the Sunshine Coast. Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd has built a solid reputation for outstanding floor quality and exceptional customer service. For more information or to arrange an obligation free quote with a view on our product samples contact the team at Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd today.

Polished Concrete – Unique, Durable, Architectural

Backed by the Concrete Industry Association of Queensland, Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd is at the forefront of delivering highly diamond concrete floor polishing services to your commercial or residential project. We are a Gold Coast based company, servicing areas from Tweed Heads, Brisbane and to the Sunshine Coast. Our experience in quality flooring is first class, and widely recognised across the industry.

Concrete floor polishing requires precise grinding and preparation to the highest standards. Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd is here to do the work – getting it right the first time, every time. Polished concrete is a long term economical solution to the ongoing expense of traditional floor coverings. Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd’s effortless flooring system has an aesthetic appeal which is markedly superior to any other product.

Take a step back through time and remember the polished floors at school, the office building, even the wedding reception hall. All these polished concrete floors can now last a lifetime of wear and tear because of the effortless flooring system by Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd. We ensure that you have the most economical and long term flooring solution for your company – sealed to perfection.

Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd are your professionals in polished concrete floors, we are dedicated to meet your requirements on time, and within budget. Call us today if you require our advice in concrete floor polishing .

With our unique polished concrete process, fancy restaurants aren’t the only places that can look their best. Your business can have professionally polished concrete floors for a fraction of the cost it will take to maintain traditional floor coverings over their lifetime.

Our technique involves careful preparation of the existing floor, and then mechanical grinding and polishing using nothing but the best materials and tooling. Some of our competitors place a surface coating on the concrete floor and take your money. Our solution is to offer you the highest professional standard of low-maintenance concrete flooring. You even choose the gloss you want, and we give you a prestigious floor backed by our exclusive 10 year warranty!

Why do you want polished concrete floors? It’s more than just the visual aspect! Traditional flooring such as tiles, vinyl, epoxy coatings and timber carries stains and bacteria in the tiled grout lines, where as other floor coverings will mark, tear, flake, scratch, yellow in the UV light; with Australian Flooring Group Pty Ltd, we take away that expensive maintenance hassle and provide you with a first class long-term durable flooring system. Our signature process involves no surface coatings to achieve the high gloss diamond polished concrete finish, this creates a floor that will not scratch, yellow, flake off, tear or mark, while looking very much like a granite bench top on the floor.

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