A new breed of cementitious overlays has gained rapid acceptance recently.  These fine – grained, self – leveling products can make beautiful floors with minimal thickness buildup. However, they have a barrier to polishing due there mix design and their incompatibility  with conventional densifiers.

Lythic Densifier with Reactive Colloidal Silica solves the problem, and makes cementitious overlays richly, elegantly polishable. The new overlays are made with specialty cements and modifiers – not ordinary portland cement – have much lower lime content than concrete. Silicate densifiers depend on lime to react. They do not perform well with specialty cement overlays.

Reactive Colloidal Silica, by contrast, bonds to the proportionally high silica content in specialty cements and their silica-sand aggregates. Because of its compatibility with these self leveling overlays, Lythic’s Densifiers and Protectors create new possibilities for a  bonded topping with durable reflectivity not possible with silicate based products.