Dive summary:
- Jessica Ledger-Kalen and Jeremy Waugh are meticulous about concrete-pouring, which was what their Royale Concrete did at first, but they found a more-receptive market in polishing concrete, and a recent project found a stunning aggregate floor when they ground away 65 years' worth of grime on the floor of a former chemical storage building on a farm.
- The Fairfield, Iowa, company got a job to clean the floor of what had been a farm's storage building so their client, an oil distribution company, could use 70,000 square feet for storage.
- For office space, however, they showed the owner what they could do with a demo area that was going to be carpeted anyway, and they got the go-ahead to turn 2,000 square feet that was going to be tiled into an attraction of its own.
From the article:
"... Royale Concrete started the dry polishing process with a 20-grit, metal-bond abrasive grind, which removed the VCT black mastic residue, carpet glue, painted-on fork lift lanes and years of grime that collected on the floor ... exposing a beautiful aggregate scatter full of color and various aggregate sizes. ..."
