NATIONALCONCRETE POLISHING

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Epoxy and Polished Concrete Flooring Systems

Nine floor systems in three families, so pick by material below, or tell us the building and we will tell you which one holds up.

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Nine floor systems

The three families, the nine floors

Two ways to finish a slab, one way to take one off, and one that is not a floor at all. Pick the family first and the floor second.

Polished concrete

A school cafeteria with a ground and polished concrete floor that mirrors the ceiling lights in bright pools, rows of folding tables standing on it to either side

Concrete Polishing 

Ground and honed with industrial diamonds until the concrete itself holds the finish.

Best for
Warehouses, showrooms, lobbies, schools and light industrial spaces
Back in service
Same day, after the final clean
Range per sq ft
$6 to $12

Epoxy and resin coatings

Prep and removal

Every price here is a range. Moisture is what makes coatings fail, so it gets tested before anybody quotes a number, and the written price comes after we see the floor.

The comparison

Concrete floor finishes, side by side

Three questions decide this, and none of them is the color. What is the slab like now. What rolls over it. How long can you have it out of use.

Polished concrete

Polished concrete is the slab you already have, ground and honed until it holds a finish. Nothing is laid on top of it, so there is no coating to re-coat later. It suits showrooms, warehouses, lobbies and schools, where the floor takes foot and light wheel traffic and has to read clean and level.

Best for
Foot and light wheel traffic, on a slab worth keeping
Back in service
Bare polish: same day, after the final clean. With a guard or sealer: about 24 hours.
Range per sq ft
$6 to $12

Epoxy and resin coatings

Epoxy and resin coatings go on top of the slab. A primer, a body coat, sometimes a broadcast of flake or quartz, then a clear top coat. They suit kitchens, service bays, plants and garages, where the floor takes spills and wash downs and you want color in it.

Best for
Spills, wash downs, tires, and floors that need a color
Back in service
Foot traffic in 10 to 24 hours, wheels in 24 to 72, full cure in about 7 days.
Range per sq ft
$8 to $20, by system

Prep and removal

Prep and removal is not a finish. It is what happens to the slab before one goes down. What is bonded to the concrete decides the method: grinding for thin coatings and adhesive, blasting where the bond is heavier. Pick it on its own when a floor has to come up and nothing goes back down yet.

Best for
A floor that has to come up when nothing new is going down yet
Back in service
Next trade as soon as we release the prepared area

Each resin system carries its own clear top coat: epoxy, polyaspartic or urethane. Epoxy ambers under direct sun and polyaspartic does not. Xtreme Polishing Systems, our sister company under the same ownership, publishes the comparison between epoxy and polyaspartic.

Which building

Or start from the building

Pick the space instead of the material. The matrix names the family we would put in it, and the floors inside that family.

Start with your space

Polished concrete floor running the length of an empty warehouse bay toward the loading doors

Selected for Warehouse & Distribution

Best for
Warehouses, showrooms, lobbies, schools and light industrial spaces
Back in service
Bare polish: same day, after the final clean. With a guard or sealer: about 24 hours.

Floor Removal · Shot Blasting

Projects of record

Where these floors are

One job per family, with the facts attached. The rest are in the gallery.

Boat showroom in Pompano Beach: boats parked on the finished polished concrete floor

Polished concrete

Boat showroom, Pompano Beach

Pompano Beach, FL · boat showroom · polished concrete

Technical school automotive bays in Miami after installation: finished quartz floor under the vehicle lifts

Epoxy and resin coatings

Technical school automotive bays, Miami

Miami, FL · automotive training bays · quartz traffic coat · about 20,000 sq ft · diamond grind and clean · 30 days on site between May and July 2026

A bare concrete slab just after grinding, the grinder's overlapping arcs still visible across the open matte surface and a saw-cut joint running away to one side

Prep and removal

A removal job ends with a bare slab like this one. Prep is the first step under every other floor on this page. Sometimes it is the whole job, when your old floor comes out and nothing goes back down.

Projects by system

The process

What polished concrete actually is

Five passes over the same slab, and each one changes what the floor does. In South Florida it is our crew, the machines and the materials on the floor for all five.

A coating goes down differently

These five passes are polished concrete. A coating is not a pass over the slab, it is a layer on it, and a coating system runs from three layers to six. What both families share is the start, because the slab is ground and patched before anything goes on it. Everything after that is where they part.

The five passes

  1. Two square patch repairs filled with fresh mortar in a bare concrete slab, a trowel and a pail of mortar set down beside them

    Preparation

    We cut through the surface of your slab to get it flat and fill what we find.

  2. A walk-behind floor grinder with dust extraction standing on a concrete slab, a wide band ground open in front of it exposing the aggregate

    Diamond grinding

    We grind with industrial diamonds until the unfinished concrete is exposed. The grit we start on is set by the slab.

    No single sequence fits every slab; the starting grit depends on the slab. A typical 800-grit job runs 30, 70 and 120 metal, then 50, 100 and 200 resin, a densifier, 400 and 800 resin, then a guard and a high-speed burnish. 800 grit is our common finish; 1,500 and 3,000 are upgrades.

  3. A saw-cut joint across a concrete slab, filled with a smooth bead along the far half and still open nearest the camera, a cartridge gun beside it

    Joint filler

    Control joints and expansion joints get filled where they need it.

  4. A row of diamond honing pads laid out coarse to fine on a concrete floor, honed surface on one side of the working line and coarse ground surface on the other

    Honing

    We go back over the floor with progressively finer diamonds, and this pass decides how the finish reads.

  5. A polished concrete floor with daylight running down it as a long soft reflection, a pump sprayer and a pad on a handle at the wall

    Polishing

    You pick the sheen. Bonded abrasives and densifiers are what make the floor resist dust and stains.

Where each family gives something up

Polished concrete has four real drawbacks and a coating has two. They are why we do not put either one everywhere.

Polished concrete

Hard and cold

Concrete is cold underfoot and it has no give in it. If people stand on it all shift, tell us before we quote.

Slippery when wet

A polished floor is slippery once water is on it. Anti-slip coating is on our own scope list and it goes where the water lands.

The up-front number is higher

A high-gloss polish costs more up front than a lower-sheen finish on the same slab. There is no coating on it to re-coat later.

It is not stain-proof

Resistant is not proof. Polished concrete is not completely resistant to spills, and in high traffic it needs re-polishing.

A coating

A coating gets re-coated

A coating is a layer, so one day it comes up and goes back down. Polished concrete has nothing on it to re-coat.

A coating can be pushed off

A coating sits over the slab, so moisture in the concrete can lift it. That is why the slab gets tested first.

SERVICE AREAS

Projects Nationwide, Crews Based in South Florida

In Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, our own crews do the work. One person owns your job from the first walk to the day you get the building back.

Outside South Florida, how we deliver a project depends on its scope, location and mobilization. Either way, the schedule is ours.

Tell us where the building is and we will tell you straight away how your area is covered.

Our own crew polishing a concrete slab, dust extraction on the grinder.

Commercial or residential

The same nine floors, sorted by who is asking

Floors for any kind of workplace 

Anywhere your business operates: eight building types, the standard that governs the ones that have one, and how long you are off the floor.

Floors for the home, inside and out 

Anywhere around the house you live in: five spaces, the finishes to pick from, and how a home floor is priced.

Straight answers

You do not pick the system. The slab does. Moisture is what makes coatings fail, so it gets tested before anybody quotes a number. Whatever is bonded to the concrete now decides how much prep goes in. Tell us the address and we come out and read the floor before we quote.

One building often takes more than one system. A warehouse aisle, an office and a wash-down area do not have the same duty, so they do not get the same floor. We read the slab and the traffic room by room, and the scope names which system goes where before you sign it.

Time off the floor changes by system and by how many coats go on. Foot traffic comes back first, wheels later, and full cure last. Start with the date you need the floor back. That date narrows down which system fits.

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