The HardWear Floor: Gloss With Less Grind

Not every project needs a diamond polished floor, and not every client can afford it. Now, there is a high-performance alternative that lowers the cost and gives your customer more options.

The HardWear Floor utilizes the special properties of Reactive Colloidal Silica to get gloss with much less grind.  Standard Lythic Densifier contains silica particles of about 5 nanometers across. We use it as a base layer to penetrate and bond into the slab. We then add a special version of the densifier, Lythic XL, with silica particles of about 45-nanometer size.  These larger particles quickly build up density in the surface and may actually fill in finer scratch patterns.

Buffing the surface with a black stripper pad on a high-speed burnisher can produce a near-polished shine. The floor is extremely well densified, and has all the performance and durability of polished concrete.

Existing slabs can be ground to remove residues and honed to 100 grit, then densified. New, hard-troweled floors can simply be screened for cleaning – no grinding necessary.

The HardWear Floor is a way you can help customers who don’t have diamond-polishing budgets but still need a great-looking, low-maintenance floor.

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