The Story: This Pittsburg, PA dog kennel boarding facility had some challenges with their main floor. Watch the video of machine in action (same window) The epoxy rubber floor had become a mess after only a year of use. Right from the start, the coating on the floor failed to perform. Some months after the original installation it started to

The Story:  Large Restaurant Floor. This Minneapolis restaurant, at one time, had a unique floor surface with reflective glass inlays – an architectural feat and truly a “one of a kind.” After the original tenant had left, the new owners wanted a change –  a more modern look. The new tenants wanted to update the floor and remove what once

The Story: 1,050 sq/ft spancrete garage floor resurface. Watch the video of machine in action (same window) With only a few years of normal wear and tear, this rubber floor had failed miserably as a waterproofing system. Originally, the home owner had trouble with water penetrating the spancrete, thus damaging the space below. Rubber seals are a common fix for

The Story: 900 sq/ft downtown Minneapolis high-rise condo. After removing numerous floor finishes, the general contractor found several repairs, multiple levels of thin-set grouting and failing concrete patches. The contractor specifications were to set a new VC tile 12″ X 12″ on a level smooth concrete surface. After hours, jack hammering, hand-scraping and pounding with no results – the general contractor explored

The Story:  2,200 sq/ft restaurant remodel. After the fixture demo was completed, the owners found a poorly finished light weight concrete floor that looked like the waves on Mille Lacs lake on a windy day. The owner’s specifications was to install a wood engineered glue direct pre-finish oak floor system. The installer required a smooth level surface to glue his

The Story: 800 sq/ft commercial bathroom remodel. Watch the video of machine in action (same window) After removing all the existing interior walls, and re-configuring it for ADA requirements, this floor had been re-done 3 or 4 times past, without removing the previous tile mastic. The goal was to smooth the surface, so it would be ready for a quarry

The Story: 14,000 sq/ft polished concrete floor. The floor was a newly placed concrete floor. The customer wanted a polished concrete specification to expose the aggregate of the concrete floor. Here’s how you expose aggregate:  first you mill off 3/16″ with a self propelled milling machine. Next, you have to cut what the machine leaves – which we call “quarter-roy.”  The challenge

The Story: 800 sq/foot office area. Watch the video of machine in action (same window) After removing the old and outdated carpet the general contractor found this heavy, dense, 1/4″ thick black carpet pad – which was glued down directly to the concrete below. After hours of hand scraping, pulling off small pieces, and a full day of labor cost

The Story: This 2,000 sq/ft space was newly remodeled for a new owner. After demolition from an unknown number of tenants and owners, the mess of the floor was found -100′s of holes, large tool joints, spawled out areas, random cracks, dirt and grime. The goal: This area was to be a production work area. The owner’s specifications – smooth,

The Story:  5,400 sq/ft, new construction, built for a single tenant. The new tenant’s specifications were “Clear coat, warehouse work surface.” After considerable construction delays, the general contractor used an off-road lift to install the steel ceiling inside the building – leaving the floor, littered with black tire marks from the lift. The owner took posession of the building and