A polished floor has a glossy, mirror-like finish, and it makes a room feel clean and lively. A floor owner can choose nearly any color, pattern, or aggregates for the floor. Polished floors are popular in commercial buildings and modern interiors. Luster is restored quickly by cleaning; if you’d like to create this look in your own home or space, here’s the procedure you can use.

Materials

• Concrete grinder               
• Concrete sealer
• Burnishing pad
• wet –dry vacuum
• MOHS hardness pick set
• Safety clothes and handsets

Cleaning and patching the surface

Step 1: Clean the entire Floor surface

Using soap, water, and a bristle brush, clean the floor with warm water. Scrub thoroughly with a typical household cleaner, rinse and let the floor dry. For a floor with stubborn stains, try using Hydrogen peroxide ammonia under safety measures and precautions.

Step 3: Inspect the floor keenly for damaged areas.

After cleaning, you will have a better look at the floor and scan potential or protruding metals. Identify this and mark for you to address them later before you start grinding. Protruding metals should be chipped, and the floor mended. Once you have identified the faults purchase a concrete crack filler that applies with a caulk gun and mends the surface. For more comprehensive pits, use vinyl concrete patch material, smoothen it out to be flush with the floor. Sweep the floor clean from debris after the patch has cured.

Smoothing the surface with a grinder

Step  1: Test the hardness of the concrete.

This floor hardness is tested using the MOHS (measurement of hardness scale) hardness picks before you can rent a grinder. Choose sample areas of the floor, hold #9 picks like a pencil, apply some pressure and draw roughly 2 in (5.1cm) pencil lines on the concrete. Take a glance and feel if there is a scratch; work your way through the pick numbers until you reach a pick that doesn’t leave a scratch (#8,#7, etc.). The MOHS hardness picks available online or near your shopping centers.

If, for example, the #6 pick scratches the concrete, but #5 doesn’t, the concrete has a MOHS of 5.5

Step 2: Grinding the surface with a 40- or 80- grit disc.

Based on the MOHS test purchase or rent, a grinder precisely suits soft, medium, or hardened concrete. The grinding discs must be metal bound, get and read the instructions on how to use them. Protect yourself before starting the work. Have the following: thick gloves, dust mask, safety gloves, safety goggles, and earplugs. Attach the discs according to the manual, grind the surface in half circle motions, slowly moving back and forth.

Start from one corner of the floor to the other, and remember to remove stains using a 40-grit grinding disc. Go slowly and work over the surface evenly until you have some notable change.

3: Repeat grinding using 80- grit through 400- grit discs.

 Pass over the floor with each grit working perpendicular to your last pass; each disc will buff away scratches created during the previous pass.

4: Spray densifier after grinding

Coat the whole floor using a densifier, a liquid chemical hardener as per its instructions. It makes the concrete less porous and less powdery.

5: Make the final grinding pass with the 3000-grit disc.

Work over the entire concrete surface as previously done, move oppositely. The grit in this disc will polish the surface, restoring its great appearance.

Vacuum all dust and debris off the concrete surface before you buff the concrete.

Buffing and Sealing the surface

1:  using a Burnishing pad and applying a concrete sealer.

 A burnishing pad makes the floor smooth. Once again, following the instruction, turn the grinder with the burnishing pad on and pass it over the concrete floor using the corner to corner rule.  Apply your concrete sealer and spread it evenly.

• Sealers protect the floor from grease, dirt, and other stains.  Moreover, using a glossy sealer gives the look you desire.
• Apply the sealers during dry conditions. 

Apply a second sealer coat after 2-4 hrs, wait for it to dry, then burnish to give the floor a final smooth and shiny finish. Give the floor 24-72hrs after which the floor will be ready to use. To ensure your flow sparkles, you can access services from experts like Southside Concrete Polishing.