Salt and Pepper polished concrete – sustainable building

The Centre for Excellence for Sustainable Building Technologies and Renewable Energy Conservation – with a title like that the floor had better have something to add to the mix.

Salt and Pepper concrete floors added many benefits to this project where the goal was to incorporate many of the buildings materials and systems to attain the optimum use and efficiency.

Not only are polished concrete floors beautiful and bright, they also carry with them relatively low maintenance costs and holdup very well to heavy traffic.

Polished concrete is a very effective flooring choice to optimize radiant heat and cooling.

To see some of the other features that were incorporated into this project see http://www.alivingclassroom.com/vision.php

Deep Grind polished concrete

This recent project was new concrete poured by others.  A unique terrazzo strip was put into place.  Danamac did a deep grind polished finish to this project.  End result was a high gloss finish with a lot of even aggregate exposure.

Floor Protection

Throughout the years Danamac has always encouraged our customers to protect their floors.  Throughout the construction process floors can be damaged and protecting them at all stages becomes very important.  The options for floor protection have been fairly limited.  We are very pleased to say that we have found a floor protection that we can both recommend and supply to our customers!

So … keep us in mind for your floor protection needs on any current and upcoming projects.  Call for further information, samples and pricing.  604-533-0837.  or info@danamac.ca

Flake Floor

A client recently came to us wanting to improve their garage.  They had done extensive renos to their home and the 35 year old concrete garage floor needed some updating and beautifying as well.  Danamac prepared the surface and installed a flake floor for the client.  I think all will agree that this floor is a big improvement.

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Cream Polishing

As with many things, there are many different levels of polishing concrete.  From a “cream polish” to “salt and pepper” to “deep grind” with all levels of sheen for each type.

One of our most popular polishes is the cream polish.  This is a great finish because it simply enhances the beauty of the slab.  It results in a smooth, easy to clean, beautiful floor.

integral colour - cream polished concrete

natural concrete - cream polished concrete

integral colour - cream polish

natural concrete - cream polish

light reflective shake on hardener - cream polished concrete

natural concrete - cream polish

integral colour cream polished concrete

Lightly Polished Coloured Concrete

We were recently in Gas Town in Vancouver and decided to re-visit a project we completed about 4 years ago.  We have had more inquiries about Inform Interiors flooring than almost any other project with public access that we have done.

Polished concrete - Inform

The floor started as a structural slab that was poured and raked out (by others).  On top of that coloured concrete was poured (by others).   The floor was badly marked from the placement and was cracking due to the structural slab sucking the moisture out of the finished slab and lack of expansion joints (among various other factors).

The client was looking for a light coloured neutral floor that would showcase the furniture and brought Danamac in to consult on how to accomplish this.

Danamac came in and pre-filled all the cracks to minimize the enlargement of them.  We then gave to floor a light polish to even out and refine the floor.  The result is a one of a kind  floor that showcases the clients furniture beautifully. 4 years later …. it remains interesting , unique and gorgeous!

Inform - light polished coloured concrete

Inform Interiors - Light Polish

Let it glow Let it glow Let it glow

Danamac recently completed this beautiful polished concrete project in a brand new house.

Danamac was brought in at the early planning stages.  We were able to give some direction to our customer at this stage.  The customer wanted a unique floor, acid stained with deep polish.  Danamac was able to be present during the concrete pour to seed the floor with some glow in the dark aggregate.  Because we were involved in the early stages we were able to get in and put in strategically placed sawcuts to minimize the uncontrolled cracking.

This project started out with good flat hard concrete and a customer who was willing to think outside the box.  The result is a beautiful polished  concrete floor!

Special thanks to Carol Kerfoot of CarolKerfoot Photography and Kristy Harrison of KristyHarrison photography – it’s not an easy task to capture the effect of a glow in the dark polished concrete floor in a picture!

Decorative Concrete Overlay

After being on a few large commercial polished concrete projects it was fun to do a decorative overlay!

This project is a large tile pattern thin concrete overlay in our customers’ bedroom and bathroom.

There are heat cables in the self leveller.  Danamac then  came in and went over it with this decorative concrete overlay.

Old Faithful ……

At Danamac we pride ourselves on having the Knowledge, Experience and EQUIPMENT to meet and exceed our client’s expectations.  We take time to not only ensure that we have the right equipment but we also ensure that our equipment is maintained properly.

We have one machine that has been our “go to” machine for years.   We call it “old faithful”  others that are the same make and model don’t have the same reputation with us as this particular machine does.  This machine has a huge amount of square feet under it’s belt (so to speak!) and has only required the regular maintenance that is standard at Danamac.

……. well ……. the time has come that old faithful is on her last belts and needs some serious attention.  Lets see how far she goes with her new overhaul!

Westcoast Ford Lincoln

This project is tilt up construction.  The client wanted a high polished concrete floor.  This was achieved by Danamac’s skilled team by using our expertise and our polishing equipment.  In addition to the beautiful polished concrete finish achieved,  there is a neat sawcut pattern which is filled with custom black polyurea joint filler on this floor. It was a pleasure to work for WestCoast Ford Lincoln www.westcoastautogroup.com, Bynett Construction www.bynettconstruction.com and Graham Hoffart Mathiasen Architects www.ghmarchitects.com on this project.

The showroom and office are natural grey high polished concrete which was densified and sealed.

natural grey high polished concrete

The Service and Parts areas are also polished concrete but with light reflective shake on hardener to increase the brightness

light reflective hardener polished concrete

Once our portion of the project was completed, the floors were covered with a protective board.  Construction continued for another 8 months.  The contractor then uncovered the floor, Danamac came back in to give the floors a quick final buff and the client was ready to open for business.