School and Museum Flooring Pictures

Project Highlights: Art gallery floor, acid stained concrete, polished

Winner of a 2012 ASCC Decorative Concrete Council Award - First Place Certificate for Polished, Under 5000 SF.
This high school now has a beautiful, low-maintenance floor. The project consisted of placing, finishing, grinding, saw cutting, polishing and coloring. Mix design was crucial for this floor because the client had requested that the aggregate show on the surface. Saw cuts, both structural and decorative, help minimize unwanted cracks.

Get this look using Scofield concrete stains in terracotta, antique amber, padre brown, and copper patina, Eucosil, from Euclid Chemical, and PolishGuard, from Prosoco.
Read about this project: Polished Concrete Floor Is a Lesson in Indian Folklore

A church multi-purpose room transformed with RetroPlate System (Diamond Polished Concrete) to matte finish (400 grit). Three different acid stain colors were applied (Kemiko's Golden Wheat, Vintage Umber and Black), each square had to be done by hand. This took several days to get the colors and textures just right.

This is a polished concrete job for Quaker Hill Elementary School in Waterford, CT. The areas included a cafeteria and a series of hallways leading from the cafeteria to the main offices near the front entrance of the school. It was all new concrete that was polished to 3000 grit with Ameripolish sealer. The cafeteria had a green and blue checkerboard pattern and the hallways were all dyed burnt sienna.

Custom Concrete Solutions was asked to come look at the floors of Smith College in North Hampton, MA. The previous contractors had finished half of the floor very nicely, however the other half appeared to have tape marks left over from a protective covering after they had densified the floors. The challenge was that the marred half of the floor could not be redone without creating inconsistency compared to the good half of the floor. The only solution was to grind and polish all of the floors.
CCS started with 40 grit diamonds, running HTC 800's and then up to 800 resins. There were many challenges so it took longer than expected but it was worth it in the end. Just for good measure the floors were re-densified at 400s with Retroplate and finished with 2 coats of LS Guard. These floors will last forever!

LITHOCHROME® Chemstain® Classic was used to create this custom design for both the floor and countertop. Padre Brown, Antique Amber, Copper Patina, and Weathered Bronze were used in pure, blended, diluted, and layered techniques to achieve the look we desired while working directly with the owner. The floor was sealed using SCOFIELD® Cureseal-VOC™.

The beautiful color palette for this remotely located project was achieved using ten colors of LITHOCHROME® Tintura™ Stain sealed with SCOFIELD® Selectseal-W™. Five of the ten colors were blends of two or more colors to create a close match to the rendered design. The patterns were digitized to stencils that were traced to the floor and scored using a 4" grinder.

This spectacular floor was created to represent the movement of the Sacramento River and its sandy banks; it is located in the Sacramento Civic Center. The floor was created using acid stains, saw cuts, sandblasting, and epoxy sealer.

Project Highlights: 90,000 sq. ft., stained, polished

Benjamin Franklin Elementary in Wash. went green with the addition of polished concrete. The light reflective surface decreases energy costs and improves air quality.
Read about this project and the benefits of polished concrete.