Month: October 2021

The NHMRC defines indoor air as any non-industrial indoor space where a person spends a period of an hour or more in any day. This can include the home, office, schools, shopping centers, hospitals and restaurants. It is important to take the correct steps to improve the indoor air quality ensuring it is at a high standard to protect the health and well-being of your family, customers and employees.

This is particularly the case as Australians may spend 90% or more of their time indoors. Further, it is generally accepted that exposure to indoor air pollutants such as dust mites, dust, bacteria, pet dander, moulds, and other pollutants can pose health risks and contribute to respiratory disease, allergies and asthma. Many people have allergies that affect their daily living. Allergy to dust mite excreta is one of the most common allergies worldwide.

 

The most common problem with carpets – dust mites!

Dust mites are tiny bugs that live in your home. They measure about 1/10th of millimetre in length, which is smaller than the full-stop at the end of this sentence. Dust mites feed off of pet and human dander (dead skin cells in the air and on surfaces in our homes), and their waste is a major cause of allergies and asthma. Symptoms of dust mites allergy include sneezing, runny nose, nasal congestion and itchy nose. If you have asthma, dust mites can cause you to wheeze more and need more asthma medicine. You may have more symptoms at night, when you are laying in a bed infested with dust mites. So, cutting down the number of dust mites in the home or is an important step if you or someone in your family has allergies or asthma.

Dust mites love warm, humid areas filled with dust. Carpets are great places for them to live. Regular thorough carpet cleaning can make a slight difference in the number of dust mites in your home; however it is nearly impossible to reduce the numbers in carpets quiet dramatically. Every time someone walks over carpet, dust mites are spread into the air, taking approx 2 hours to settle. Babies and young children crawling on the carpet are surely especially at risk.

While you cannot completely rid your home of dust mites, you can certainly take some steps to reduce their numbers. Recent proven testing had found that the hard surface floor had significantly fewer mites than the nylon, wool and poly-propylene carpets. Consider removing wall-to-wall carpeting from bedrooms and other frequently used spaces and replace with a seamless polished concrete floor. Carpets trap dust, dust mites, skin, pet dander, mould, spores, pollen, and chemicals that can trigger allergies or asthma-like symptoms. Polished concrete is a very economical, low maintenance solution also protecting your family’s health buy improving the indoor air quality. Since removing your wall-to-wall carpet is an ambitious step, balance the cost and hassle with how miserable your allergies or asthma are making you.

My Floor can transform your existing concrete floor into a glass-like finish which is smooth, low-maintenance and cost effective. This process involves no harmful chemicals or coatings, only using state of the art diamond polishing tools and techniques. For new projects, there are an unlimited pallet of different aggregate and different coloured oxides to match any style and colour scheme. So instead of covering your concrete with carpet, tiles or vinyl which increases the harmful bacteria and allergen levels in your home why not protect yourself and your family by appointing My Floor to polish the concrete.

If you suffer from any of the above issues and would like your existing floor coverings (carpet, tiles, timber and vinyl) removed, or if you are engaging in a new project, why not try polished concrete. Take a look at some of our recent project photos and contact us for more information today.

Our highly trained professional team can offer an effortless flooring solution to suit every budget and flooring requirements, servicing all areas of SEQ including, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. With our extensive experience and personalised service we will endeavour to deliver the highest quality concrete polishing for your project.

Finding a concrete floor polishing specialists just got a whole lot easier. Endorsed by the Concrete Industry Association of Queensland, My Floor is Brisbane’s premier supplier of polished concrete services.

 

So what are the top three things you need to know from the specialist in concrete floor polishing?

1. Durability

Standard coating (epoxy or poly-urethane) or sealed polished concrete, tiled, stone, timber and vinyl floors needs swift attention. Regular everyday use of the floor attracts dirt, grit and dust. This acts like sandpaper on the surface creating inevitable scratches causing wear and damage to the surface. Once this coating wears, the floor then has to be stripped, cleaned and re-sealed, which results in downtime for your business or a major inconvenience for your home. My Floor’s Hiperfloor and Signature finished polished concrete eliminates this problem by using our exclusive advanced diamond polishing process creating a high gloss finish without the use of film coat sealers. This exclusive finish will not scratch and wear from everyday use, and there is no need for stripping and re-sealing! just ask us for a free demonstration! We deliver a flooring system that lasts for decades. That is why we back it with our exclusive 10 year warranty!

2. The Healthy Option

Household dust mites have been known to be associated with allergies since the 1960′s and have become a focus over the years for their involvement with respiratory ailments. These mites are known to concentrate in carpets with long fibers. Tiled grout lines also harbor mold, dirt, oils and mildew which creates a build up of bacteria and germs causing an unlimited pallet of harmful diseases. My Floor’s diamond polished concrete floor eliminates dust mites that gather in the carpet fibers, also eliminating harmful bacteria that gets trapped in the tiled grout lines. This is due to its seamless abilities, creating a very easy to maintain, clean allergy free environment for your home or commercial property.

3. Visual appeal

For new projects, polished concrete has an unlimited design selection, allowing you to choose the colour of aggregate and cement oxides from a wide variety of options, prior to the installation of your new concrete floor. For existing concrete flooring, we can remove the old floor coverings (e.g tiles, timber, vinyl and carpet) to transform your floor to a Durable, Healthy, Low-maintenance surface. We also have a large range of 25 different coloured water-based dies. These can be added to your existing concrete floor during the polishing process, creating a very versatile flooring solution for any commercial, industrial and residential project.

 

Why choose My Floor?

By only using the highest quality machinery and diamond tooling, combined with “our trade secret” we achieve an exclusive High-gloss finish that is at least 2 times more reflective, has at least double the clarity and durability of the standard diamond polished concrete finishes available on the market today. We are so confident with our finish that we back it with a 10 year warranty! You’re floor is “my floor”… We treat every floor as though its our own, ensuring that your floor is always at its best on completion, leaving a floor that you will be proud to own! We work hard to get our floors level and prepared prior to treating the concrete and delivering a high quality polished finish. My Floor provides our customers with the finest polished concrete finish that only the trained, experienced specialists can attain.

There are some awful examples in this growing industry where floors are polished and finished incorrectly by inexperienced (cowboys) contractors. Beware… these finishes do not last! All too often we have been asked to repair and re-polish these outcomes, resulting in a costly experience for you the client who is now paying for a floor to be completed twice.

The top 3 Do’s before choosing a polished concrete contractor:

1. Make sure all polished concrete contractors are BSA Licensed
2. Ask to see previous work, samples, photos and client’s testimonials.
3. Do your research, when choosing polished concrete; you have to compare “apples to apples”. No two polished concrete finishes are the same! When buying a new car, we don’t make our decision based on the vehicles price do we? Decisions should be made on quality, durability and the ongoing reliability.

In some industries you will find inferior products being sold without warranties and any ongoing support. However, as specialist in concrete floor polishing, My Floor provides our customers with an industry exclusive 10 year written warranty on our diamond polished concrete finish. Also providing a first class on-going service, including 24hr advice and assistance with every-day cleaning and maintenance.

My Floor delivers our customers with an effortless flooring solution. In Brisbane, Tweed Heads, Gold Coast and on the Sunshine Coast. My Floor has built a solid reputation for outstanding floor quality and exceptional customer service. For more information or to arrange an obligation free quote with a view on our product samples contact the team at My Floor today.

Polished Concrete – Unique, Durable, Architectural

Backed by the Concrete Industry Association of Queensland, My Floor is at the forefront of delivering highly diamond concrete floor polishing services to your commercial or residential project. We are a Gold Coast based company, servicing areas from Tweed Heads, Brisbane and to the Sunshine Coast. Our experience in quality flooring is first class, and widely recognised across the industry.

Concrete floor polishing requires precise grinding and preparation to the highest standards. My Floor is here to do the work – getting it right the first time, every time. Polished concrete is a long term economical solution to the ongoing expense of traditional floor coverings. My Floor’s effortless flooring system has an aesthetic appeal which is markedly superior to any other product.

Take a step back through time and remember the polished floors at school, the office building, even the wedding reception hall. All these polished concrete floors can now last a lifetime of wear and tear because of the effortless flooring system by My Floor. We ensure that you have the most economical and long term flooring solution for your company – sealed to perfection.

My Floor are your professionals in polished concrete floors, we are dedicated to meet your requirements on time, and within budget. Call us today if you require our advice in concrete floor polishing .

With our unique polished concrete process, fancy restaurants aren’t the only places that can look their best. Your business can have professionally polished concrete floors for a fraction of the cost it will take to maintain traditional floor coverings over their lifetime.

Our technique involves careful preparation of the existing floor, and then mechanical grinding and polishing using nothing but the best materials and tooling. Some of our competitors place a surface coating on the concrete floor and take your money. Our solution is to offer you the highest professional standard of low-maintenance concrete flooring. You even choose the gloss you want, and we give you a prestigious floor backed by our exclusive 10 year warranty!

Why do you want polished concrete floors? It’s more than just the visual aspect! Traditional flooring such as tiles, vinyl, epoxy coatings and timber carries stains and bacteria in the tiled grout lines, where as other floor coverings will mark, tear, flake, scratch, yellow in the UV light; with My Floor, we take away that expensive maintenance hassle and provide you with a first class long-term durable flooring system. Our signature process involves no surface coatings to achieve the high gloss diamond polished concrete finish, this creates a floor that will not scratch, yellow, flake off, tear or mark, while looking very much like a granite bench top on the floor.

Take a look at our photo gallery to view some of our latest work. Our why not take a look at our Tips and Articles page to read more.

If you would like to arrange a free site evaluation with a view on our product samples.

Polished concrete finishes have been used primarily in industrial buildings, manufacturing plants and warehouses and are increasingly becoming more popular in residential, retail and commercial buildings. When comparing polished concrete to a more conventional product, such as ceramic tiles it is obvious why polished concrete has become the material of choice. By mechanically grinding, treating and polishing the concrete provides a long lasting and unique seamless, hygienic floor without the use of coatings or sealers.

Traditionally, concrete floors have been covered over by a variety of floor coverings, surface coatings (epoxies and poly-urethane) and topical sealers otherwise known as overlayments . Often, when considering the life span of the overlayment, this process represents expensive installation, ongoing maintenance and eventual replacement costs, however, in all circumstances the underlying structural concrete remains. My Floors signature finish reduces the need for overlayments by converting the actual existing concrete into an economical, durable and low maintenance finished surface; able to withstand the toughest of traffic whilst producing spectacular visual appeal.

The best advantage with polished concrete is that it is extremely low maintenance and requires the occasional damp mopping due to its seamless abilities. However everyday maintenance and cleaning of tiles or equivalent floor coverings represents a difficult process due to oils, dirt and dust that settles into the grout lines leaving behind harmful bacteria.

My Floor also offer services which include floor preparation, floor stripping and floor removal. So if you’re tired of your old floor, let My Floor offer you an effortless flooring solution by removing your existing floor covering and converting it into highly-polished surface.

Our highly trained professional team can offer an effortless flooring solution to suit every budget and flooring requirements, servicing all areas of SEQ including, Brisbane, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. With our extensive experience and personalised service we will endeavour to deliver the highest quality concrete polishing for your project.

Our services include:

• Polished Concrete
• Floor Preparation
• Floor Levelling
• Floor Stripping and Removal
• Stone Polishing
• Stone, Tile and Grout Cleaning
• Concrete and Stone Sealing

Please contact us to arrange an obligation free site evaluation.