Durability and Resource Conservation
If properly maintained, a concrete floor should never need to be replaced.
Few flooring materials can boast this same longevity. Carpet, tile and even wood floors eventually need replacement, which uses up resources and creates waste disposal problems. If you stick with a neutral colour palette for your concrete floor, it will easily accommodate any future changes to your interior décor.
Concrete floors also utilise sustainable materials and micro-cement should always be installed using ultra-low formaldehyde composition and free of VOC's (Volatile Organic Compounds) meaning no allergenic odours or side-products.
Installing micro-cement and polished concrete floors minimises offsite manufacture and ancillary manufacture and transportation costs minimising carbon-footprint issues.
The predominant raw material for the cement in concrete is limestone, the most abundant mineral on earth. Every ready-mix supplier can also make concrete using waste byproducts, which reduces the consumption of raw materials. Fly ash, slag cement and silica fume, all waste byproducts from power plants, steel mills and other manufacturing facilities, are commonly used as partial cement replacements.
Decorative concrete floors can also incorporate recycled products, such as crushed glass, bits of recycled plastic, marble chips, metal shavings and even seashells (see Beach House: An Indoor Ocean Floor).
In the highly unlikely event that your concrete floor ever needs to be replaced, the concrete itself can also be recycled at the end of its long service life (see Recycling Concrete).
If properly maintained, a concrete floor should never need to be replaced.
Few flooring materials can boast this same longevity. Carpet, tile and even wood floors eventually need replacement, which uses up resources and creates waste disposal problems. If you stick with a neutral colour palette for your concrete floor, it will easily accommodate any future changes to your interior décor.
Concrete floors also utilise sustainable materials and micro-cement should always be installed using ultra-low formaldehyde composition and free of VOC's (Volatile Organic Compounds) meaning no allergenic odours or side-products.
Installing micro-cement and polished concrete floors minimises offsite manufacture and ancillary manufacture and transportation costs minimising carbon-footprint issues.
The predominant raw material for the cement in concrete is limestone, the most abundant mineral on earth. Every ready-mix supplier can also make concrete using waste byproducts, which reduces the consumption of raw materials. Fly ash, slag cement and silica fume, all waste byproducts from power plants, steel mills and other manufacturing facilities, are commonly used as partial cement replacements.
Decorative concrete floors can also incorporate recycled products, such as crushed glass, bits of recycled plastic, marble chips, metal shavings and even seashells (see Beach House: An Indoor Ocean Floor).
In the highly unlikely event that your concrete floor ever needs to be replaced, the concrete itself can also be recycled at the end of its long service life (see Recycling Concrete).