How do they match: Terrazzo Workers and Finishers

  • Apply a mixture of cement, sand, pigment, or marble chips to floors, stairways, and cabinet fixtures to fashion durable and decorative surfaces.

  • Blend marble chip mixtures, place into panels, and push a roller over the surface to embed the chips.
  • Clean chipped area, using wire brush, and feel and observe surface to determine if it is rough or uneven.
  • Fill slight grinding depressions with matching grout material and hand-trowel for a smooth, uniform surface.
  • Grind surfaces with a power grinder, or polish surfaces with polishing or surfacing machines.
  • Grind curved surfaces or areas inaccessible to surfacing machine, such as stairways or cabinet tops, with portable hand grinder.
  • Produce rough concrete surface, using broom.
  • Spread roofing paper on surface of foundation and spread concrete onto roofing paper with trowel to form terrazzo base.
  • Spread, level, or smooth concrete or terrazzo mixtures to form bases or finished surfaces, using rakes, shovels, hand or power trowels, hand or power screeds, or floats.
  • Sprinkle colored marble or stone chips, powdered steel, or coloring powder over surface to produce prescribed finish.
  • Wash polished terrazzo surface, using cleaner and water, and apply sealer and curing agent according to manufacturer's specifications, using brush or sprayer.
  • Wet surface to prepare for bonding, fill holes and cracks with grout or slurry, and smooth with a trowel.
  • Wet concrete surface and rub with stone to smooth surface and obtain specified finish.

  • Apply material to fill gaps in surfaces.
  • Clean surfaces in preparation for work activities.
  • Finish concrete surfaces.
  • Prepare surfaces for finishing.
  • Smooth surfaces with abrasive materials or tools.