Polished Concrete – CVS Pharmacy, Pacific Palisades

Twenty thousand square feet of retail sales floor for a CVS Pharmacy in Pacific Palisades. Thirty working days, and the old floor had to come out before any of it could start.

Location	Pacific Palisades, CA
Surface area	20,000 sqft
Building	Commercial Retail
Working area	Entire store floor
Duration	30 Working Days
Scope	Floor Removal and Full Polished Concrete

What we walked into

The store was part-way through a remodel with the old floor still down – sheet goods and tile in mismatched patches, adhesive underneath, and debris across the whole sales floor. The shelving had been pulled, but the aisle signage, the pharmacy counter and the structural columns were all still in place. The slab had to come back to bare concrete with the building’s fit-out standing around it.

What we did

The old covering and the adhesive under it came off first, then the slab was ground back and taken up through the grits. Where fixings and floor boxes had been pulled out, the holes were patched and left to cure before polishing continued. Those repairs are visible in the bare-slab photos as rectangular patches in the concrete.

What made it difficult

Twenty thousand square feet is a lot of floor to keep flat and consistent, and none of it was open ground. Every pass had to work around columns, the pharmacy build-out and the fixtures that stayed. We work five days a week, and on a job this size the schedule stretches while other trades hold the floor – which is why thirty working days spanned a longer stretch of the calendar. Much of our time on the floor ran into the evening.

The result

A single continuous polished floor across the whole sales area, finished bright enough that the ceiling line reflects the length of the store. Nothing was coated over the top. The floor is the slab that was already there.

Photos