Terrazzo flooring in Dublin CA - a chip floor picked for your room and budget

Most calls start with a room that's ready for something better than tile or carpet, and a few questions about which kind of terrazzo fits it. The price moves with whether the floor is poured or tile, epoxy or cement, how many colors and chips go into the design, and how much work the slab needs first. The schedule turns mostly on the number of colors, since each one goes in and cures on its own, and on whether your slab is ready for it. Your own number comes in a written estimate after I've seen the floor.

First we pick the system with you. Terrazzo comes down to epoxy or cement, and poured or tile, and I match those to the room, whether it's inside or outside, and to what you want to spend. Then our crew grinds the slab and checks it, because when a floor lets go, the reason is usually in the concrete under it. Once the base is right, we lay out the design, put it down one color at a time, let each section cure, then grind the whole floor smooth and clean up. More colors means more days, so we plan your room's downtime around the design before we start.

Prep is its own job, and on terrazzo it's the part I won't rush, so our concrete grinding and surface preparation work comes first on our installs. If the room you have in mind is downstairs, we also handle basement flooring, and I can tell you on site whether terrazzo or another finish suits that space better.

Dublin requires a permit for most construction and repair projects, but its list names additions, alterations, patios and decks, not terrazzo flooring, so it doesn't settle whether your floor needs one. Permit rules depend on the city or county your address falls in, and for a Dublin address we check with the city's Building & Safety Division before work starts. That's the office that decides for your project, if you'd like to ask them yourself.

Under old flooring, the slabs we open up around here usually have patches, cracks or leftover glue, and we see the same on jobs in San Ramon and Pleasanton. We grind that out and test the slab's moisture early, because one epoxy terrazzo maker requires an added moisture-control layer when the relative humidity reads 75% or higher. Where cracks or control joints, the saw cuts that tell a slab where to crack, keep moving a little, epoxy terrazzo can go over a flexible membrane. It's an added cost, and it lets the floor absorb some of that sideways movement.