Concrete floors can be finished with an epoxy filler stain. Comes in clear or with flecks of color. Very often used in garages, restaurants or by car collectors. Find a local company who can do it for you. It's also available by kit in U.S. At Home Depot and Lowes.
The DIY concrete floor finishing products are rarely up to "snuff" for a living situation. Most are meant to be put down in a garage where it doesn't matter if it bubbles and lifts in a year or two. Many have failed because of wrong application technique, wrong use, wrong product for the concrete, etc.
A finished concrete floor in a new build is a great option. The concrete professionals will get the surface ready for polishing. The concrete floor finisher (may be a different person than the guy who installed the slab) will come in and clean/shot blast the concrete and add a layer of appropriate, high-end, high-density concrete. This concrete is then stained (if you want it) or if you want simply polished and coated with appropriate epoxy. It may take more than 1 application of the stain/epoxy to get the look you are after.
This is not a "money" saving product...it is a lifestyle finish that is equal to (in price) other medium/high end finishes. It is very important to understand the quality of concrete seen with a normal slab/subfloor is NOT good enough to be polished and stained. That's why a new coating of high-end stuff is added to the slab. This high-end concrete has all the right properties to receive stain/polish/epoxy.
marilynellis
Cancork Floor Inc.
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