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Advantage Of Polished Concrete Floor

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Concrete Floor
Concrete floor is one of the most durable materials in the world. It can be made with waste products which help to reduce the consumption of valuable materials. It also can be made from fly ash, slag cement, and silica fume, all waste byproducts from steel mills, power plants and other manufacturing facilities.

There are the several types of concrete floor styles that can be stamped, stained and polished. But the choice for the employee locker room will be a polished concrete floor. For my opinion, polished floor will be suitable because it is economical, durable, versatile, affordable, low maintenance and is a long lasting floor as show in figure 1 (Ref.1). Polished concrete floor is made from an aggregate (rocks, river stones and granite chips) which is mixed with a cement binder such as limestone, calcium, sulphate and water.

Figure 1: Employee Locker Room Polished Concrete Floor

Benefits of a polished concrete floor:
Durability
- Its hold up well even in high traffic areas. A polished concrete floor will not stain, chip or discolor and it also eliminates the need for messy waxing or frequent resurfacing.
Easy and low maintenance
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All that will be required to keep it clean is just to be mop regularly. It is really convenient for maintenance as we do not need to clean the floor with a vacuum cleaner and mop it once again like carpet. Furthermore, there’s an advantage worth noting, laminate floor is a scratch proof floor product. But unfortunately, it has an awful reputation because of the products on the market that have been fabricated by low price point. If you want to avoid the risk that you might buy the cheap rubbish flooring, laminate floor is definitely good and very hard wearing. It is hard to damage the surface of floor and people should expect it to come with a lasting shelf life of 20 years

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