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: 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 Watch the video of machine in action (same window) After removing the old and outdated carpet the general contractor found this heavy, dense, 1/4″ thick black carpet pad – which was glued down directly to the concrete below.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

The Story: 8,900 sq/ft, a free standing building was being remodeled for one tenant – the space was previously divided between several tenants. After extensive demolition, dividing and partition walls, the floor below had numerous VC tiles and colors, and also other floor finishes. The new tenant specification was a consistent warehouse clear-sealed concrete finish. The general contractor was, put

The Story:  This old strip mall, after numerous tenants had used the space, with a 12 x 12 VC tile on it. Watch the video of machine in action (same window) No one knew what was below the tile. The mastic used to place the VCT was black, cutback, asphalt type adhesive – an owner’s nightmare. The goal was to