HARDWEAR FLOOR

The Lythic HardWear Floor is a cost-effective alternative to diamond polishing. Please take a moment to watch our video to learn about the HardWear Floor process:

Diamond polishing produces a beautiful, durable floor, but it is a labor intensive, consumable-intensive process that can exceed some budgets. Lythic Solutions has developed a lower-cost, high-performance alternative that takes advantage of the unique properties of Lythic Densifier. It makes a floor with a near-polished appearance, and all of the polished concrete performance advantages:

Durable
Low-Maintenance
Environmentally friendly upkeep
Long service life

The Lythic HardWear Floor is based on a double treatment of Lythic Reactive Colloidal Silica densifiers. It can be applied to new, hard-troweled floors, or to existing slabs with light grinding. The first treatment, with standard Lythic Densifier, bonds silica particles of about 5-nanometer size to the concrete. This base layer forms a bonding surface (or landing pad) for 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.

When this newly-made, high-silica surface is burnished, it produces a near-polished gloss. It eliminates two or three diamond-polishing passes, saving on the costs of both labor and diamond tooling. After stain protection, a 100-grit grind can resemble an 800-grit polish. It has all the performance properties of a polished concrete floor, and similar low maintenance requirements.

The protocol is simple:

Existing slabs can be ground to remove residues and honed to 100-grit. New, hard-troweled floors can simply be screened for cleaning – no grinding necessary.
Densify with Lythic Densifier.
Clean
Densify again with Lythic XL Densifier
Burnish with black stripper pad on high speed burnishing machine. Gloss appears.
Stain protect with Lythic Protector.
Burnish to enhance curing and gloss.