Kuster Concrete Polish makes concrete floors stronger and more beautiful 

"Our treatment ensures that concrete floors are resistant to stains and do not become dusty," says Marcel Kuster of Kuster Concrete Polish. By polishing and impregnating, floors become stronger, denser and more beautiful.

"A flattened concrete floor is strong, but has the disadvantages of giving off dust and being susceptible to contamination due to its open structure," says Marcel Kuster, owner of Kuster Betonpolish. "If liquid falls on it, it soaks right in: as a result, a concrete floor quickly looks a bit dirty. By mechanically and chemically compacting the floor, you can make it more beautiful and ensure that it is easier to clean."

Compaction

"Mechanical compaction means we polish the floor," Kuster explains. "With existing floors, we go even further by first sanding and polishing them if necessary. After the first polishing passes, we usually impregnate the floor with a densifier, a silicate-based hardener. This chemical densifier makes the floor eight times harder. The result of polishing and impregnation is that the floor is hard and dense: therefore, there is less dust formation and the floor has better water and stain resistance. An additional effect is that from now on you can clean the floor properly and thus keep it beautiful." The treatment makes the concrete floor shine more. "But if necessary, the floor can also be made darker, if one likes that or wants to camouflage something." In addition to concrete, natural stone such as marble can also be ground and polished.

Individuals and companies

"We do the floors of both private homes and medium-sized commercial spaces," Kuster continued. "With private homes, you're talking about the higher end, homes where architects have done a special design with a concrete floor. When a concrete floor is poured and floated but not finished further, it quickly becomes unsightly because of stains. In a residential home, of course, that's a very big drawback. But most of our work we do for medium-sized sheds and, for example, training rooms or department stores, where the concrete is used as a sight floor. One can choose to apply a coating so that the floor is easy to clean, but anything you apply ón a floor wears off again. With our treatment, the concrete floor not only gets a beautiful look, you don't have to do anything to it anymore. Recoating is no longer necessary, so you burden the environment less and are cheaper." 

Special projects

The Dordrecht-based company, founded in 2011, has already improved many concrete floors, including the floors of churches and the concrete floors of a European office of a globally known home furnishing store. "A very special project was polishing the floor of a regional distribution center in business park Ambachtsezoom in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht. This is the first fully circular business park in the Netherlands. Our concrete polishing method met the Cradle-to-Cradle principles. The new users were initially skeptical about concrete in the office, but with the end result they were very happy."

Eye for detail 

"What makes us unique is that once upon a time, in 1994, we started as a floor maintenance company with private individuals," Kuster concludes. "In an engineering industry dominated by contractors and concrete workers, this makes us stand out: this experience makes us very good at details and we have a great eye for the look and livability of a space. We look at each shed as if it were a house in which one lives 24 hours a day. People make very high demands on a living space. We make sure that every space gets that high-quality finish."