Questions people actually asked about terrazzo
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267 questions fall under 18 subjects.
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Cleaning and care
3 answered
How it is cleaned, what stains, whether it can be polished back, and what damages it for good.
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Cost
5 answered
What drives the price, why one average is useless, and what a quotation needs to contain.
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How it is made
7 answered
The six processes, what binds each one, and why the same word covers a 2 mm coating and a 30 mm panel.
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Sealing
3 answered
Whether it needs sealing, how often, and which finishes seal differently from which.
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Stains and paint
2 answered
Whether it stains, whether it can be painted, and what an old floor can be made to look like.
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Installing
9 answered
Laying it wet, laying it as panels, coating an existing floor, and why the substrate is half the specification.
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Style
3 answered
Whether it is in fashion, whether it dates, and what actually drives a terrazzo specification today.
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Thickness
4 answered
From a 2 mm coating to a 30 mm panel, why terrazzo is thick, and when thin is the right answer.
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Slip resistance
2 answered
Dry, wet, polished, honed — the question asked eight different ways and answered eight ways.
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Bathrooms and wet rooms
2 answered
Showers, wet rooms and floors that get water. What works, and what needs a slip rating asked for in writing.
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Durability
7 asked
How long it lasts, what wears first, and why a dark floor shows wear differently from a pale one.
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Repair and restoration
3 answered
Patching in place, lifting a coating, and which surfaces can be brought back and which cannot.
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Water and moisture
2 answered
Is it waterproof, what does water absorption actually do, and why the binder decides it.
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Against other materials
9 answered
Terrazzo against marble, against concrete, against porcelain, and against its own cheaper versions.
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Outdoor
2 asked
Terraces and poolsides: what frost does, and which formats are worth specifying outside.
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Joints and grout
1 asked
Why a seamless pour has no joints and a tiled one has a grid, and where the divider goes.
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Weight
1 asked
How heavy a terrazzo floor is, and what that means for an upper floor or a renovation.
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Standards and specifications
4 answered