How do you clean terrazzo?
How it is cleaned, what stains, whether it can be polished back, and what damages it for good.
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Neutral pH detergent and water, nothing acid. Terrazzo is cement or resin, and an acidic cleaner attacks a cement matrix and dulls a resin one. On a sealed floor this is the whole routine. On an unsealed poured floor, sealing is what makes cleaning possible at all. Full answer
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Neutral pH detergent and water, nothing acid. Terrazzo is cement or resin, and an acidic cleaner attacks a cement matrix and dulls a resin one. On a sealed floor this is the whole routine. On an unsealed poured floor, sealing is what makes cleaning possible at all.
It survives kitchens better than most floors, with one condition: the aggregate has to be chosen for impact rather than for looks. A dropped pan on terrazzo is dispersed through the matrix, but a large glass chip is brittle and will micro-fracture under a sharp point load. Fine marble and quartz aggregate is the right choice in a working kitchen.
Neutral pH detergent, and nothing else. That single rule covers a sealed cement floor, an epoxy floor and a precast panel: an acid cleaner attacks a cement matrix and dulls a resin one, and neither can be undone with a stronger product. The rest is frequency, and frequency follows traffic rather than a calendar.
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