Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering Re: Preparing/Cleaning concrete slab 31Jul 13, 2007 9:27 am stonecutter1309 Wow! That looks great! Thanks, we're pretty happy with it. We need to fix up a badly scratched section in the kitchen then go over it with something a bit more hardy as Adam suggested. But all up so far it's cost us around $140 including everything (for the lounge/dining, kitchen and hallway). Re: Preparing/Cleaning concrete slab 32Jul 25, 2007 2:06 pm that looks amazing
Is it reasonably hard wearing though? I'm about to build in downstairs and will have a 70sqm open room with bar, pool table and tv/ lounge to do. This might be a nice unique way to finish the space. I suppose for the cost you listed so what if it fails The cromellin site lists it as tileable too so no need to strip it bare if you want to tile over it..... even better I will give this a go I think (be a few months before I get there mind you). I love patterned floors like that (I'm a die hard slate fan but pretty over tiling for a while at least) Re: Preparing/Cleaning concrete slab 33Jul 25, 2007 3:45 pm -mick- that looks amazing Is it reasonably hard wearing though? I'm about to build in downstairs and will have a 70sqm open room with bar, pool table and tv/ lounge to do. This might be a nice unique way to finish the space. I suppose for the cost you listed so what if it fails Thanks, mick. Well, I actually rang cromellin again to discuss how to repair the scratched areas. They were genuinely surprised that it had scratched. After some discussions we worked out it was probably because a) it was too cold, it needs to be over 10 degrees to do it, the temp was about 12 degrees when we did it. b) the appliance installers came in the day after we did the sealing - apparently it takes 7 days to fully cure, you can walk on it and replace furniture after 4 hours but you obviously should be dragging a dishwasher, fridge and 90cm over around on it In my discussions the guy said see how we go with it after recoating the scratched areas and if we still find it's not as hardy as we need then go over it with some polyurethane. Their PU product is' PU51' and costs around $200 for 10L which would be enough for 2 coats over 70-80 sqm. I went over the kitchen area the other day and it looks a lot better, we'll see how it wears and use the PU if necessary. -mick- The cromellin site lists it as tileable too so no need to strip it bare if you want to tile over it..... even better I will give this a go I think (be a few months before I get there mind you). I love patterned floors like that (I'm a die hard slate fan but pretty over tiling for a while at least) Yeah, not much to lose by giving it a try. We intend to get tiles or floor boards in 5 years, so this is just a nice modern looking temporary solution. Re: Preparing/Cleaning concrete slab 35Jan 11, 2013 8:01 am Wow this is an old post! We actually found this stuff not to be very hard wearing over time so we ended up getting somebody in to polish the concrete a couple of years ago. Only cost $5k for hallway, kitchen, lounge and dining areas and we are very happy with the end results. I'll try to dig up some photos of the old stuff though. No, I even have sections of narrowness where the tiles won't slide up any further. When I manage some spare time, I might play around with the first DIY part of my… 7 5144 The concreter will take and reuse. In my case I bought structural LVLs and scraped them back and used them as joists. 1 5438 yep, clearly mark where the infloor heating pipes are before drilling or nailing 1 6276 |