Is The Lowest Price Always The Best When It Comes to Quality Terrazzo Restoration
Colonial Floor Care and Stone Care has been in business for over 20 years restoring historical Terrazzo for over 20 years. And as small business, we understand the reality of having to decide if putting a bit more money into the best equipment, materials, and employee’s or trying to save some dollars and get just the next least expensive.
As many businesses as well as home owners out there have to do every day. What to do?? We choose the best quality, as it is a hard lesson to learn “you get what you pay for”.
For example,. This is the job that we were called to do at the high ranking Breaker’s Hotel in Miami. They too, a few years ago, opted out for the less expensive fix for their exquisite Grand Ball Room. This room had a foundation crack that also cracked the historical Terrazzo Floor Polishing Miami, and it was decided to hire the lower bidding contractor, even though Colonial Floor and Stone Care had done work for their sister hotel the Essex, with wonderful outcome, we had proposed a higher bid. The Hotel decided to hire the company with the lower bid to fix the cracking in the Terrazzo. What they got for their money was sub standard quality work. Unfortunately, what is always said “you get what you pay for”. We were told that when the Hotel complained to this company, they just walked away from their work. We were called back approximately two years later to see what this luxury Hotel had been presenting as a supposed restoration to their customers.
The previous restoration company used resin to fill the cracks that was not color matched correctly, what compounded the problem is that they did not use any marble chips to give a flawless, seamless repair to the cracks. Our technicians came in and took all of the resin out of these cracks, filled them with the proper Portland cement and proper color matched the cement and marble chips which were in two colors, to do the job right. The above video shows the restoration process they way it should have been done the first time, the right way!
So the question is, do you pinch your pocket book and hope for the best, or do you invest in your business or your home and choose a quality company that will restore your Terrazzo (which today would cost $30.00 per square foot to install) to its original condition?
We hope at Colonial Floor Care will come and talk to you about your individual needs for your Terrazzo, Marble, granite, even concrete or any other natural Stone care. The estimate is free, the consultation will be done by a highly trained and professional representative of our company. We hope to keep this from happening to your restoration need.