Polished Concrete – Long Beach Convention Center Office (400 sqft)

Jevan Araujo, owner, IT’S SO CLEAN CSLB #1071609

Four hundred square feet of office space at the Long Beach Convention Center, taken back from an adhesive-covered slab in two working days.

LocationLong Beach, CA
Surface area400 sqft
BuildingCommercial Convention Center
Working areaOffice space
Duration2 Working Days
ScopeAdhesive Removal and Full Polished Concrete

What we walked into

A small office with the old floor covering gone and dark adhesive left across the whole slab, almost black in places. Underneath it the concrete turned out to be heavily cracked.

What we did

Ground the adhesive off, worked the slab up through the grits and left the cracking visible rather than filling and disguising it.

What made it difficult

On a floor this size there is nowhere to hide a bad decision – the whole thing is visible from the doorway in one look. The cracking runs right across it, so the finish had to be even enough that the cracks read as the floor is character rather than as a failure.

The result

A light polished floor in a room that started almost black, with the crack pattern showing through as part of the surface.

Photos

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Polished concrete office floor, Long Beach Convention Center (7 of 8)
Polished concrete office floor, Long Beach Convention Center (8 of 8)