Terrazzo Floor Demolition

You can attempt to remove the stain yourself or contact a professional stone restoration contractor.

Terrazzo floor demolition.

Pouring the floor may allow the use of higher end materials that aren t available in pre made tiles so this can also raise the cost. We are removing thin set from a terrazzo floor. Hope someone can advise as to how to remove terrazzo. Here is what will need to be done.

When terrazzo is poured in situ onto large areas of floor metal expansion or divider strips are used to delineate the floor into sections to avoid cracking the strips are laid in the parts of the floor that are most likely to crack which should force the crack to happen along the join rather than in the center of the section. Removing a terrazzo floor is a bit trickier than other types of tile floors because the tiles themselves are so heavy and thick. Have approximately 400sf to remove. That adds up to a total project cost of about 30 to 90 per square foot.

Video of the day volume 0. Stains on terrazzo can be unsightly and may lead you to decide you have no choice but to have tile or carpet installed over it but often stains on terrazzo can be effectively removed. I was going to go at it with my bosch demo gun and a tile chipping bit. I ve been told that surface grinding and a good mortar over top works but the height is an issue here and needs to be taken down to the bare concrete.

Poured terrazzo flooring cost. After we are done we will restore the terrazzo floor by diamond polishing. This grinds away any coatings on the floor removes stains and shallow scrapes on the surface.