Terrazzo Restoration Service Near Ft Lauderdale
Terrazzo Restoration Service Ft Lauderdale, when people think of getting their terrazzo floors restored the company that comes to mind is Colonial Floor Care. Colonial has been restoring terrazzo since 1986 and is regarded as the best terrazzo restoration company. We have been featured in prominent design magazine like Home Fort Lauderdale and this past May in the design magazine Tropic, Lauderdale Living & Design. Both times we were featured in a multiple page spread. Our company is very fortunate to always be busy and in fact we ever grew another crew strong during the great recession. Now we have five well trained crews that make up this great team at Colonial.
When it comes to doing expert repairs to terrazzo floors we are proud to say we are the best. We have virtually every color of terrazzo chip in stock to do repairs that make it hard to notice the repair work was even done. On weekly meetings with the staff we love sharing with the guys the happy customer stories and the continuous fact that the vast majority of work is by referral it give the staff the pride they well deserve
We have many, many projects under our belt and our vans can always be seen in South beach. We especially love South Beach because of its city code that the old buildings must restore the terrazzo floors. And now that a lot of the buildings are going away from putting wax and sealers on the terrazzo to create the high shine. Instead they are hiring a company like ours to use finer and finer diamonds to bring the floor to a point where we can powder polish the floor and have a high shine floor that doesn’t require much maintenance.
Less maintenance is probably one of the number one reason that homeowners are removing tile, linoleum, and carpet from the top of their terrazzo floors. Before the great recession started the terrazzo restoration movement was in full swing, especially when people started realizing that the floors they have cost around $25 to $40 a square foot to have installed. Then the great recession was in full swing and tons of houses were on the market and a lot of people were seeing these old houses with these amazing high shines and they were getting exposed to floors that are only seen in homes in Florida. I will attribute this as one of the big reasons why we grew during the Great Recession. People were viewing more homes because of the horrible real estate market with an abundance of cheap houses for sale. The crazy part is that even homes that were built in the middle class neighborhoods have these amazing floors that are to expensive to have installed today. Years ago colonial owned a part of a company that did terrazzo installation, and we were always amazed by the reaction of wealthy people when they found out how much it costs to have terrazzo installed. It is way cheaper to have a marble floor installed. To think that working class people have these floors under their dated tile flooring and the can have floors that millionaires are wishing they can have installed but just can’t justify the substantial cost. This is why we have our guys remove tile on the weekend. It’s a big business removing tile from flooring. Who wants grout lines? I don’t think many readers of this blog will say “I do”.
We don’t do much business above Delray, the terrazzo restoration trend still hasn’t taken hold up there yet, which is fine because it will one day and there are so many floors out there to restore. I mentioned Delray because about two years ago we got a call from the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach. Years before they hired a company to fix a huge crack that was in there ballroom that crack the whole length of the ball room and the crazy part is that the terrazzo floor was laid out as squares with two different colors. Yikes! Well the company they hired did a horrible job they just put resin in the holes with chips that didn’t match which made the repair work stick out. They called our company because of the reputation, we have a lot of highly specialized jobs under our belt, we are a regular fixture at the Clevelander Hotel on Miami’s famous Ocean Drive. We took on the Breakers Hotel project with our team’s expertise and delivered a job that will not have to be redone in the future.
I can write forever on our companies favorite subject terrazzo restoration, I want to conclude this article with a fact that is tough for some people to grasp. Terrazzo Restoration is a once in a lifetime experience. Hiring the right company to do it right the first time is very important. There are other areas of a project restoration that money can be saved. But hiring a company to restore the terrazzo based just on price is the wrong decision. You couldn’t imagine how many horrible terrazzo restoring jobs we have seen over the years! Occasionally we do redos for homeowners that have hired another company, I say occasionally, that’s because not many people have it in their budget to have the floor redone properly once the company they hired did a horrible job. The main problem is that the homeowner is going to have to look at the repair work and think about that experience and be reminded that they should of done more homework on finding the right company. They will unfortunately have the look at the black eye for a long time the horrible repair work along the edges and be reminded of their poor decision.
We would love to earn your business and if you\’re new to Florida and are discovering terrazzo flooring I say two things. One, Welcome to Florida. Two, your going to love living with a grout free floor.