Fake Terrazzo Flooring

Terrazzo flooring is a great alternative to plain concrete flooring as you get the same slick quasi industrial style but with added texture and interest that is more like a carpet think of terrazzo as a concrete carpet if you like.

Fake terrazzo flooring.

Poured terrazzo flooring cost. Read all my flooring stories here. Terrazzo floors are labor intensive to create and time consuming to install. Now however you can buy terrazzo in tile form.

Terrazzo floors have always been known for their classic look durability longevity and low cost of maintenance. Fritztile is now gone from the market. Our large format tiles offer a sleek sophisticated modern feel while providing the look of traditional poured in place terrazzo. Terrazzo is a flooring material traditionally made by exposing marble chips on the surface of concrete and then polishing until smooth.

For poured floors you ll pay between 25 and 70 per square foot for materials depending on the choices you make about aggregate and pattern. Pouring the floor may allow the use of higher end materials that aren t available in pre made tiles so this can also raise the cost. In the past trained artisans usually installed terrazzo floors. So she followed the design lead of friends fredrik paulsen and axel bjorklund who had both used a confetti technique to create a faux terrazzo look with furniture and floors respectively.

You had something that someone called terrazzo ms. Large authentic terrazzo tile made in america. Achim sterling 20 piece 12 in x 12 in black with white vein marble peel and stick vinyl tile. Find out more about this terrazzo look tile.

You can get the look in resilient tile too as in this tarkett azterra 12 vinyl enhanced tile. The bad thing for terrazzo industry is when someone has a faux terrazzo floor and it only lasts 10 years and they say oh i had a terrazzo floor it wasn t that great well no you didn t have a terrazzo floor. With nurazzo hand crafted terrazzo tile you get the long lasting visual appeal of a poured in place floor without the high cost or troublesome messy installation. That adds up to a total project cost of about 30 to 90 per square foot.

It s often used in public buildings because it s long lasting and can be refinished repeatedly. Terrazzo flooring consists of small marble chips glass pieces or colorful stones embedded in a concrete base and polished to a high shine. Terrazzio is truly unlike any other flooring company.