Terrazzo specification reference
How thick it is, whether it is slippery, what it costs, and which of the six processes you are actually specifying.
Terrazzo is a method rather than a stone: the same word covers a 4 mm resin floor and a 30 mm pressed panel. Every answer below names the process it is talking about, and every figure says whether it is a published range or one we measured ourselves. Where we have none, it says not tested — in the tables, on purpose.
Reference photographs of the material and the finish, not of goods we made. Sample before you specify; we quote against a batch.
Asked most often
The Chinese standard
Which Chinese standard applies to engineered stone?GB/T 35157 covered resin products only. The revision, plan no. 20253872-T-609, brings cement-based material in for the first time. Sourced to the drafting body’s own announcements and to trade press; we hold no certificate against it.
By the kind of question
The six processes, drawn to one scale
This is the difference that makes the rest of the site necessary. They share a name and almost nothing else.
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Kitchen floor in white terrazzo, cabinets above
Precast
Pressed and cured under pressure.
20 mm typical
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Bathroom floor and wall in the same white terrazzo
Cement-based
Laid on site over the substrate.
12 mm typical
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Teal resin floor with a floral inlay
Epoxy
Aggregate in resin, laid thin.
5 mm typical
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Commercial interior with a terrazzo floor and a red soffit
Poured
Placed wet, ground back level.
10 mm typical
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Bathroom floor in a fine terrazzo coating
Liquid
Trowelled over an existing floor.
3 mm typical
- Porcelain Fired clay body, printed surface. 9 mm typical
3 of 6 processes link to their own answer page. The rest are here as photographs of the material; the answer is still being written, and a card that would have led nowhere is printed as a card.
Reference photographs of the material and the finish, not of goods we made; the colour on screen is not a colour-match.
What we build thinner than the rest
The same word covers a 3 mm coating and a 76 mm sand bed. We supply the 8 / 10 / 12 mm band, in 5 forms, made to order.
- Thin Terrazzo Countertop, 8-12 mm 8 / 10 / 12 mm thickness · edge profile · cut-outs · substrate condition
- Thin Terrazzo Stair Tread, 8-12 mm 8 / 10 / 12 mm nosing profile · tread width · number of treads · finish
- Thin Terrazzo Wall Panel, 8-12 mm 8 / 10 / 12 mm panel format · fixing method · joint pattern · substrate
- Thin Terrazzo Furniture Top, 8-12 mm 8 / 10 / 12 mm span · support layout · edge profile · batch match across a set
- Thin Terrazzo Floor Tile, 8-12 mm 8 / 10 / 12 mm thickness · substrate condition · sealer system · joint pattern
Everything answered here 60
- Can a damaged terrazzo floor be repaired?
- Can terrazzo be a wall panel, and what does it need behind it?
- Can terrazzo be laid over an existing floor?
- Can terrazzo be made thinner, and what do you give up?
- Can terrazzo be repaired?
- Do terrazzo floors need to be sealed?
- Do you need antistatic terrazzo, and what resistance should it have?
- Does terrazzo need sealing, and how often?
- Does terrazzo stain?
- How big a terrazzo furniture top can one panel make?
- How do I tell real terrazzo from a terrazzo-look tile?
- How do you clean terrazzo?
- How do you get a stain out of terrazzo?
- How do you install terrazzo flooring?
- How do you make a polished terrazzo floor safe?
- How flat is a terrazzo floor allowed to be?
- How heavy is a terrazzo floor?
- How is terrazzo tested for wear?
- How is the chip mix chosen?
- How long before a terrazzo floor can be walked on?
- How long does a terrazzo floor last?
- How many times does a terrazzo floor get ground?
- How much does terrazzo cost per square foot?
- How strong is terrazzo?
- How thick is terrazzo flooring?
- How thick should a terrazzo floor tile be?
- How wide should the joints between terrazzo tiles be?
- Is porcelain terrazzo real terrazzo?
- Is terrazzo a good bathroom floor?
- Is terrazzo a good kitchen floor?
- Is terrazzo better than marble?
- Is terrazzo cheaper than marble?
- Is terrazzo cold underfoot, and can it be heated?
- Is terrazzo in style?
- Is terrazzo noisy underfoot?
- Is terrazzo slippery when wet?
- Laying 8 mm terrazzo over an existing floor: when it works
- Outdoor terrazzo: slip, weather and what actually decides it
- Poured terrazzo or terrazzo tile?
- Restoring terrazzo in an old building: what has to match?
- Should I order a physical sample before specifying terrazzo?
- Terrazzo or granite?
- Terrazzo or microcement for a floor?
- Terrazzo or quartz?
- Terrazzo tile or porcelain tile?
- Thin terrazzo on a stair: what keeps it from moving?
- What are the six types of terrazzo?
- What colours can terrazzo be made in?
- What does the floor have to be before terrazzo goes down?
- What is a good water absorption figure for terrazzo?
- What is a realistic care routine for a terrazzo floor?
- What is an 8 to 12 mm terrazzo panel?
- What is epoxy terrazzo?
- What is precast terrazzo?
- What is the right cement-to-chip ratio in terrazzo?
- What is the water absorption of terrazzo?
- What should you ask a terrazzo supplier before you specify?
- What size should the chips in terrazzo be?
- What sizes does terrazzo tile come in?
- What test results does a terrazzo supplier hand you?
When you are ready to price it
We form precast, cement-based, epoxy and poured terrazzo and ship it FOB. Send the process, the thickness, the finish and the quantity, and we quote against the aggregate and the batch we can actually control.