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monk222

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Hello, we are building a house and I think to make all the floor polished around grit 600. The contractor claims he'll do the right slopes in the bathrooums (a square with lowest point in the center. Bottm-left in the linked drawing), so the bathrooms are also polished. I'll try to negotiate for a good concrete with small fraction and white cement.

How good idea you think it is?
When we should stop polishing, so it does not get slippery?
What can go wrong?

There is always plan C where we put tiles in the bathrooms.

Thanks in advance for your guidance!
 
C.J. said:
Polished concrete is not slippery unless wet.
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This is my main concern - bathrooms are always wet. Somewhere I read that the finest polish makes it less slippery as theire is more area for friction with the foot or something like this, but I can not imagine it... Is there a chance that a polished concrete is not slippery? Does wearing Crocs make it safer?
 
Years ago, I worked at a large grocery warehouse loading dock. The concrete was so slick, we were able to push a dozen pallets using a forklift over the surface and was unscratchable. Occasionally, they would need to dig out and re-pour some concrete sections, and they advised the concrete they needed to use, was double the cost of normal concrete, and had to use an "ultra high strength" (12,000 PSI) concrete, to achieve the finish we needed.

If I had the money, that is what I'd do!
 

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