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The glorious view from the balcony, seeing the large cruise ships sailing by, watching the blue waters every day with the many ships, of different sizes out your windows.  Bliss!  Until you finally look down to your floor and see old dirty carpet, old parque flooring, both of which are high maintanence and just out dated and need replacing.

So what do you do when you find under the carpet just plain foundation concrete?  You call Colonial Floor and Stone Care, and have a discussion on Decorative concrete!  Todays concrete doesn’t have to look gray and ugly any longer!  With the new techniques that are available today, microtopping can give the home owner a new canvass to create color and design on old concrete.  Or you can choose to have the “loft look” when your origninal foundation concrete is ground down to the freshest level, using heavy grinding machines, which will smooth the floor, but also will leave some character by leaving some imprefections for the acid stain to work on the individual concrete’s unique combination of materials to make the color that will be variated, swede look.

At the end of the job, these home owners  not only have a beautiful view out the windows, but  have a beautiful, high shine, durable and low maintance floor that will not only be unique to their home but also Eco friendly.

Call Colonial Floor Care and Stone Care for all your decorative concrete  and Stone care needs.  We have been servicing the Palm Beach county at 561-337-1408, Broward county at 954-566-4555 and Dade county at 305-731-2242  for over 20 years.  We take pride in all of your and treat your floor like it was our own.  Call for us for a Free Estimate or use our convenient online Estimate request form.

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All building materials will eventually degrade due to the impact of the environment, wear and tear from normal use and eventually will need repair to prolong the life of the structure or surface it is being used for. Repairable is utmost  when being considered when designing a project. Concrete’s repairable lends it’s self high on the designers lists, as concrete usually does not have to be replaced, only repaired if reinforced and constructed correctly.  In North Dakota, a building which was thought to be unrepairable, after 3o years of innovation of synthetic materials and with today’s new technique using these polymer mixtures with Portland cerement in which will give it a 51/2 times the strength than when it was built.

Here in South Florida, where we all know the severity of Hurricanes and severe weather can bring, many of the homes are made with this durable material. Concrete block on concrete flooring, are the norm here.  Build on a study concrete foundation floor, if you have an older home, you may have Historical Terrazzo, another flooring material using Portland Cemenent and marble, shells, and other chips.  If you only have a concrete foundation floor and would like to have a unique look, let Colonial Floor and Stone Care help you decide how you can get a beuatiful and durable designed and color with acid stain or color micro top by coming and letting our professional staff show you the newest and trend setting design concept for the next decade!

No longer do you need to put in expensive marble or granite tiles, or high priced Terrazzof (up to $30.00 a square ft). For that “high end” look of those floorings.  Do what those “high End” retail and malls do, use their concrete and make it shine and look like marble or granite.  Or do what trendy shops and homes do, go for a “loft look”, using you individual concrete’s own unique chemical composition to acquire a varigated, sueadue look.  Designing your concrete is one of our company’s many care of natural stone, which concrete is considered because of all the natural stone materials used.

If you would like to see what can be done with your concrete, whether it be your floor, garage floor or patio, give us a call.  We will show you all your options to make you drab, dull gray concrete into a great durable design element in your home.  Call us at 305-731-2242 for Miami/Dade County, 954-566-4555 for Ft Lauderdale/Broward county or 561-337-1408 Now serving the west coast area Tampa and St. Petersburg, call 813-527-9797.

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One Stop Shopping, I have heard it most of my life and I was interested in when and where that phrase came about.  It has of coarse become one of the phrases large retail companies and wholesale companies use today.  So I did some Goggling and

found no specific time or company that “coined” the phrase.  But I did find that it has been used since the 1930’s.  And use extensively from the 1980’s when deparment stores became popular. Today it seems there are specialty stores or businesses using that phrase for their specific services or sales, although  we at Colonial Floor and Stone Care have not, we can  certainly be considered  the “one stop shopping” for our specialty:  all aspects of natural  Stone Care.

Concrete, usually not seen as a natural stone, is really comprised of all natural materials, including stone as aggregate to increase strength.  Portland cement, which is like the glue to hold the mixture together and harden into a formative material and surface that has been used in building for centuries.  Now, as techniques and decorative design elements are being developed and  used with concrete,  Colonial Floor and Stone Care continues to follow and not only repair and clean and polish concrete we are all use to in our garages and patios, but also to do decorative elements. Today, with acid staining, staining, stamping and dry cutting plain gray concrete can be transformed into a beautiful durable floor.  We are proud that Colonial Floor and Stone Care can change your plain concrete foundation floor into a beautiful, durable and eco friendly flooring.  That  decorative concretecan be a easy transition to other stone flooring such as marble or granite tile  and Terrazzo.

The other  thing in common we have with the whole sale and retail stores is that most of those stores use decorative concrete to mimic high end stores with a marble tile look, to the rustic loft look of aged and stained stone.

So if you need help with any Natural Stone, be it concrete, Terrazzo, Marble, Granite or Mexican and Cuban  tiles floors, Colonial Floor and Stone Care can meet all your needs.  We have been in business for over 20 years, and take pride of all our work.  Call us at 305-731-2242 for Miami/Dade, Broward/ Ft Lauderdale 954-566-4555 and Palm Beach County 561-357-1408 we would like to be your “one stop shopping” for all your Natural Stone Care needs.