I did this for 38 years and I made a pretty good living from it. It is hard dirty work but I have to say at the end of the job when you turn around and look back and see how gorgeous everything is you feel proud. I used to always say to myself you did that. That would always make me smile leaving the job.

@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503

Жыл бұрын

I've got 34 years in the trade . Where you at? I'm in California my Son is carrying on in Minnesota he's got 13-14 years in now...I make art on the side!✌️

@drlol2781

Жыл бұрын

How do you find the right stone to fill holes?

@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503

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@@drlol2781 We go by color and size...when working in the trade you become familiar with the different marbles...we go by color and aggregate size ...from #0-#7 #1#2 is the most common

@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503

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@@drlol2781 the stone( marble chips) comes in 100lb bags... A lot of work goes on before we even start a job... samples must be made looked at and approved...Lots goes into the making of a Terrazzo floor...every color and mix is controlled...✌️

@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503

Жыл бұрын

@@drlol2781 The marble is scrap from different quarries around the world lots of greens come from Texas... White from Georgia etc...

In our recent flat, we discovered terrazzo underneath some nasty PVC. We were lucky to find a company that resored and sealed the terrazzo for us. I really love the floor, it elevated the kitchen and it always looked nice and unique.

Beautiful. In the mid 1990's I went to a customer's house to measure their foyer and formal living room for new flooring. The house was in an area of San Antonio where the houses were built in the 40s and 50s. The houses were huge and eclectic. Anyhow, I get to the house and the front porch, foyer, and formal living room were all the most beautiful Terrazzo I had ever seen. The aggregate stones used were like 3/4" to 1" in size in green, yellow, rust, and white...so colorful. So amazing. My amazement and awe at the beauty of their floor convinced them not to rip it out. I told them not to do it and I was happy to lose the sale. I'd do this in my new home instead of stained concrete.

I love terrazzo. It can last hundreds of years of abuse, and with some work, it can be restored to the same quality as the day it was laid. Its one of the most durable floorings, able to take constant heavy traffic as seen in Grand Central Station and only shows wear after millions of feet have trod on it. It can have an artistic expression that is hard to surpass. I've seen a kitchen floor in terrazzo that an artist laid out a trail of leaves and flowers in the floor.... it was exquisite.

@jamesbizs

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100’s of years? Did you see how destroyed this floor was after a couple decades?

@lh8474

Жыл бұрын

its super ugly tho

@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503

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@@jamesbizs There's acres of Terrazzo at Hoover dam...I think it's Indian patterns if I remember correctly...that's almost 100 years old and in excellent shape...

@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503

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@@lh8474 This particular floor is awful ugly... But once repaired it will hold up well enough...I'm sure the decision was made due to how clean Terrazzo would be vs carpet...it will do Google Trans Bay Terminal San Francisco Hummingbirds in the floor... Introduction of epoxy Terrazzo got away from ugly color like you see here...

@perpetualmotion767

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@@jamescoleakaericunderwood2503 I think the renewed floor looks amazing but like art it can't please everyone. I'd be super annoyed by dumb humming birds in the floor.

Insider does a great job with these “How x is restored” videos. Well done as usual.

Funny enough in my country that type of floor is seen as cheap 🤣 like hospitals, school and apartments hallways had them. Everyone hates it 😂

@Jud7h

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Same in Italy where this was born :') it's something that your grandma may have

@CLOYO

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@@Jud7h As a 20 year old I'd say it's absolutely beautiful

@aoterou

Жыл бұрын

Same in Mexico, it’s like the kind of floor you’d find in a Dentist office from the 70s…

@whoopsydaisy6389

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If it was cheap in my country I'd have it everywhere. It's excellent flooring when you have dogs. Durable and easy to keep clean.

@natalieeis9284

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Same

A fascinating and satisfying video, thank you! Gorgeous floors!

Amazing restoration work! I used to manage 2 Mansions where terrazzo floors required careful cleaning,especially in Chefs kitchen and monthly maintenance.

What a fabulous job you did! My high school's floor could have used your magic touch!

Beautiful results! What a great job they did.

That was an awesome repair..!! Thank you for the update, Insider..!!

I can't believe some one put carpet over that beautiful floor.

This is great !!! Well done guys!! It’s good to see the experts in action

Amazing how the end result is so astonishing and beautiful. Really good work 👍👍👍👍

Awesome restoration, great video. So professional and the final product looks 👌 !!

Looks absolutely fantastic and wonderful transformation

The amount off Terrazzo floors I use too cover up with flooring going back 25 years plus was unreal and Wee use too have Terrazo floor layers working with our company it was big business back years ago all the old buildings had it court buildings public office theatres you name it then went on too carpet linoleum great too see this job and floor come back too life it use too break my heart covering up grand motifs insane colours borders all done beautiful just because off the change off times I spent a bit off time working on the terrazzo floors doing the big jobs helping the guys out loved it same time covering them up later years too come great video 👍

It's so beautiful after you restored it! I can't believe that it was ever covered up.

Beautiful just beautiful! I have terrazzo floors also so am so inspired right now!

Just wow,to think that could have been re- covered and lost for more years to come fantastic reveal should be well pleased with your efforts

Wow. To cover that up was crazy. Beautiful work.

Fantastic work and a beautiful result

Beautiful transformation!

This is absolutely amazing craftsmanship. I’ve always loved terrazzo.

Looks amazing! I love terrazzo. As you say, its indestructible.

Beautiful work! So much better than carpet!

Beautiful work, well done to the workers!

I heard Terazo so many times that I’m absolutely sure what that’s video is about…

@robertolsson86

Жыл бұрын

Really not sure about that, I had no idea what the floor was called

@ThomasBMawn

Жыл бұрын

Its a terrazzo floor, just in case ya forgot. 😁

@nannesoar

Жыл бұрын

...3D hyperrealistic mustaches

@el-peiro3652

Жыл бұрын

Terrazzo is italian and it means balcony

@gaetano2435

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@@el-peiro3652 hahahaha vero. Inoltre i macchinari che usano nel video sono prodotti anche nell' azienda in cui lavoro, che coincidenza.

I have my carpet restoration license. Everything he did was so far above and beyond. My one problem is he should have had a HEPA 500 cfm-2000 cfm air filtration device to protect him and the occupants. It’s at the discretion of the restorer.

wahnsinn.... fantastische aber aufwändige arbeit. respekt!

That looks amazing!

Very nice 😊 it’s good to see something brought back to its original form well done everyone

Wow, this is wonderful

Amazing, thanks for sharing 💗

Stunning result! We have beautiful terrazzo that has lasted decades. Unfortunately, sometimes in shopping malls, they cover it with cheap ceramic tiles. Wonderful to see it restored with such care. 💖

Love that floor.. thanks for the video

Beautiful!!

Wow looks beautiful!

I love that flooring!

This was fascinating.

Bravo! Well done!

Oh God scraping up all that dried glue by hand, my back aches just thinking about it

Wow, Beautiful!!

Stunning!

Looks amazing

Bravo. Nice job you done

A beautiful job done by highly skilled trades. Floors to be proud of.

Great job 👍😊

That is a tremendous amount of work.

In Greece it was called false mosaic, and it was really popular from 1900 until 1990. Kitchens, bathrooms and corridors would have this, and living rooms and bedrooms would have wooden floors. Then it was replaced with tiles, so it can't be restored like in Italy. Only some old downtown appartments have it and it's now considered vintage.

Gorgeous work! And I love the detailed walkthrough by the gent in the voiceover.

That looks like a heck of a lot of work

Absolutely gorgeous

Beautiful

Nothing simple about this process. You are flooring hero’s

You are an artis. Great job.

amazing !

Retired from 45 years in commercial flooring,you just remind me of how much I don’t miss it 😅😅

I live in Spain. I love having ceramic floors. So much easier to clean than carpets. Because I had dogs in the UK I sanded and sealed the wood floor in my living room. Much more hygienic than fitted carpets.

Would like to see an after shot of the cracks and patches specifically.

Badass work

I want terrazzo in my dream house. My grand father had this in his house. Best flooring ever.

Beautiful floors

It was very common in India , especially Mumbai the place i live every building/apartment had it in 90's. Infact some apartments not renovated since 20 years surely will have this flooring. Because it was common it was considered cheap and eventually it disappeared very rare now .

So beautiful

My dad was tike amd terrazzo for 28 years. That looked great. I laid tile and labored. I'm an architect now. That's a beautiful job. Bet rh university is happy now that they're smart enough to know why they put it there instead of concrete or wood floors. Well it is concrete dot dot dot....but.

I just got done doing fifteen hundred feet of glued carpet on terrazzo. Here's a tip. Use the coarsest sanding pads with copious amounts of water to keep the glue cold so it sands off and gets any glue stains. Much faster than by hand.

Looks good clean

Amazing work on the floor. The camera work, not so much.

So much work, i admire your stamina. It’d be my nightmare to do it.

@migzz7976

Жыл бұрын

Yeah you need more than one guy really, otherwise could took years😂

Did a beautiful job.

WOW!!

Terrazzo down in South America seems still more common today than in US. Too bad so much was replaced with carpet here in America, and the brass lettering than can accompany it in commercial buildings is so cool too.

GORGOUS BRO 😁😁

Some very old houses still have this floor, with restoration and/or maintenance it would be like new

Very interesting. Terrazzo is a great surface.

Good video.

Cool!

Good job

Nice! Can u imagine having such a floor and then putting carpet on top 😅

They could throw down, area carpets, for warmth, decor and soft for walking on. In high traffic events, they could roll up the carpets and store them. Also they can remove them for cleaning and sanitising. This is for areas of low potential of vandalism and theft, so restricted areas.

Hugely labour intensive process, can only imagine how much this must cost.

Beautiful! Does anybody know how to process corners? It is a mystery to me.

Anything that isn't carpet is beautiful

will not be amazed to see the return of terrazzo my first skill in hard surfaces industry

Love it

I audibly gasped when they did the reveal 🤣

Wow intense

Who at some point looked at that floor and was like, you know what is a good idea? Carpet over that.

Do stairs and bathrooms get a different finish to prevent slipping?

In the last 30 years where I live terazzo was seen as cheap and old. Now you can only get it from a artisan shop and it's quite expensive.

My old buildings lobby had this floor

I never understood why americans have carpets as their floor. ESPECIALLY when they walk indoor with same shoes as outside… baffles me

@masseyferguson9195

Жыл бұрын

What kind of moron wears shoes on carpet. You take your shoes off at the entrance.

@FloopyNupers

Жыл бұрын

Not all of us do that bro

@arewealone9969

Жыл бұрын

Carpets are fine but agreed with walking inside with shoes on with or without carpets. Of course not everyone though.

@warbot2544

Жыл бұрын

N why they don't use after going to restroom

@TomTomTomTom538

Жыл бұрын

Who says they do? It's much more common in the UK to have carpet downstairs because the weather is so miserable but the last 20 years has seen us move away from that and install LVT, ceramic tiles and engineered wood because heating systems have gotten better and it makes sense not to bring wet muddy boots onto carpet. The truth is though that there have been carpet free alternatives for hundreds of years and carpet was a fairly new trend booming in the 80s as carpet became cheaper. Before that there were: Marley tiles, thermoplastic, asbestos, Quarry tiles, clay, parquet wood, Stone flags and even brick floors.

I want Terazo floors now.

Bro its called terrazzo? Finally. Thats all we have here in Greece.

I wish I was there to see and feel.

Nice to see people without respiratory protection

I wouldn't want to go down those stairs wet now lol.

I will never understand why some people cover floors with carpet. It looks bad, stains a lot, looks dirty, gets odors...

I wonder how much it costs.