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I have stained concrete floors in the past and the stain does take differently on the patch material. It always comes out much lighter. My wife suggested that the painted edge might look good if we scored the concrete to define it. Hmmmmm.

havasu, that is an interesting idea about painting the edge. The patched holes bother my wife a little also, I'm trying to look past them and think that with baseboards in place they might not look so bad. Or maybe with a little paint, pencil, marker perhaps I could blend them in with the...

Thank you highup! Ypur encouragement is keeping this noob in the game. I found what looks to be the best densifier you can get over at JonDon.com https://www.jondon.com/consolideck-ls-cs-densifier.html Should come in today so I can move all the furniture, again, on Friday and apply it. Then...

Weekly update time! Got in my new 17" 175 rpm floor buffer with attached water tank (highly recommend the tank for this process unless you have a helper with a bucket to follow you around) Also got the 4 Evolution pads to go with it. So after moving the furniture out again, and a good vacuuming...

Ha! Yep, sometimes they go swimming but to the best of my knowledge chlorine doesn't work on computer viruses! 🤣

Thank you highup! That is high praise from someone who really does know what they are doing! I am just a computer repair guy who likes to attempt home improvement projects 🤓 This little thread had been very encouraging, thank you all for following along! Tack strip divot patching is going well...

Sorry for the long delay in updating but I had a little setback in my process having to do with nail holes from the tack strips. Once I got all the paint up and cleaned out all the divots from the tack strip nails I thought, no problem here, I'll just dig out my trusty bag of Mapei Quickpatch...

I agree with you on that, but here the burnishing step is the final one for that high, no finish required kind of polish, and since we are doing this one room at a time I'm going to see what we get with this first room. Who knows, if we don't like the end result we could always go for the...

I will call the manufacturer Monday and see what they say and post back. I'm hoping it will work because I think the relative softness of the pad (compared to a diamond grinding wheel) will allow it to flow with the subtle dips in the floor surface, and no more dust. I found this video on...

Now I have a new question I wonder if anyone might have some insight into: I originally intended to polish the floor with 7" diamond resin pads using my grinder but have learned that crawling around on the floor sucks. I found a product that might be what I have wanted all along called Twister...

Ok, time for an update on our project. We tried a few different methods to remove all the paint from this floor. First we rented a buffing machine from Home Depot and a 17" heavy plastic disc that had these metal blades attached to it, I think it's called a floor prep disc. It worked ok, I got...

I really like the look of those porcelain planks. Redguard is interesting stuff, I would like to learn more about it. We have now exposed the entire master bedroom floor and so far the slab is looking good, flat and no cracks. I have decided to dry polish with my 7" inch variable speed grinder...

Thanks, I'll try to update this thread periodically as questions come up and our progress continues. It might help someone else also.

That would give the best results but I have an entire house to do and that might be too much work for us I think. I'll know more when more flooring is taken up and the full slab condition is revealed. I hate tack strips! :) Do you have experience with grit levels that these types of floors are...

In a previous home I used mapei concrete patch to fill in holes and it worked very well and sanded smooth. You are right though, the patches are somewhat visible depending on the tone of the adjacent concrete.

I decided to run my 50 grit pad a little more on the rest of the closet floor to see get a better idea of what the paint will do and I think we'll just take it all down to bare concrete. We are fortunate (so far) to have what looks to be a nice slab. A little off topic but I hoped maybe havasu...

Thanks havasu, I think your right about the over spray as the paint is much thinner towards the middle of the floor. I'm not sure about the glue, I touched it a bit harder with the diamond pad and it looks to be coming off, I could try a little acetone maybe?

Hello and thank you for any help you all can give us. My wife and have taken up some laminate "wood" planks in our closet to investigate the possibility of going with a concrete floor. After removing the planks and rolling back the blue plastic barrier the slab looks to be painted with a white...