Terrazzo Floor Demolition

I was going to go at it with my bosch demo gun and a tile chipping bit.

Terrazzo floor demolition.

Hope someone can advise as to how to remove terrazzo. For poured floors you ll pay between 25 and 70 per square foot for materials depending on the choices you make about aggregate and pattern. A team of skilled terrazzo craftsmen with specialized grinding and polishing tools begins by wet or dry grinding the floor using 30 40 grit grinding pads on a floor grinding machine. After we are done we will restore the terrazzo floor by diamond polishing.

Video of the day volume 0. Poured terrazzo flooring cost. 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. Here is what will need to be done.

You will need to use a hammer drill which functions as a mini jackhammer to remove most ot the terrazzo. Have approximately 400sf to remove. Removing a terrazzo floor is a bit trickier than other types of tile floors because the tiles themselves are so heavy and thick. 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.

This grinds away any coatings on the floor removes stains and shallow scrapes on the surface. We are removing thin set from a terrazzo floor. That adds up to a total project cost of about 30 to 90 per square foot.