Dallas, Texas
Polished Concrete in Dallas, TX
Short answer
Professional Garage Concepts polishes concrete floors in Dallas, Texas for homes, showrooms, warehouses and retail. Cream polish runs $3.50 to $6.00 per square foot, salt and pepper $3.50 to $9.00, and rock cut full aggregate $9.50 to $12.00. There is no coating to peel because the floor is the finish. Call (817) 381-6173.
Polished Concrete for Dallas homeowners
Dallas holds every era at once. Lakewood and the M Streets have 1920s and 1930s Tudors with detached alley-load garages, Preston Hollow runs 1950s ranch homes next to new builds, and Far North Dallas is 1980s two-car brick on standard lots.
Alley-load garages are their own trade. Older detached structures have out-of-square openings and settled slabs, so a new door usually needs the jamb rebuilt and the track shimmed before anything hangs plumb and rolls quietly.
White Rock Lake, Bishop Arts and NorthPark anchor three different sides of the city, and the alley grid east of Central Expressway means a large share of Dallas garages open onto a paved alley rather than the street.
- Mechanically polished, not a coating, so there is nothing to delaminate
- Cream, salt and pepper, and full aggregate rock cut exposures
- Densified and sealed so the slab resists staining without a film on top
What polished concrete involves
Polished concrete is your existing slab ground and refined with progressively finer industrial diamonds until the concrete itself becomes the finished floor. There is no coating, no topping and no film. That is the whole point, and it is the reason a properly polished floor cannot peel, blister, delaminate or fail from hot tire pickup, because there is nothing on top of the concrete to lift off.
Professional Garage Concepts polishes concrete across Dallas, Fort Worth and the surrounding metroplex. We have worked on DFW floors since 2001, hold 532 Google reviews at a 4.8 star average, carry an A+ BBB rating, and are licensed, bonded and insured. Commercial clients include Herzog and Coca-Cola. You can see finished polished panels in person at our Keller or Grand Prairie showrooms, which matters here more than in any other finish we sell, because gloss and aggregate exposure do not photograph honestly.
This page covers what mechanical polishing actually is, the grit sequence, gloss levels, the three aggregate exposure classes and what determines which one you can get, densifiers, joint fill, stain guarding, and real per square foot pricing including add-ons. If you read one section, read the one on aggregate exposure. It is where most polished concrete disappointment in DFW comes from.
What mechanical polishing actually is, and what it is not
Mechanical polishing is an abrasive process. Planetary grinders fitted with diamond segments cut into the surface of the slab, and each successive pass uses a finer diamond that removes the scratch pattern left by the pass before it. Once the surface is refined far enough, the concrete reflects light on its own. The gloss is a property of the concrete, not of something applied to it.
The grit sequence, step by step
Polishing runs in two stages using two different kinds of diamond tooling. Metal bond diamonds do the cutting. Resin bond diamonds do the refining. Skipping steps in either stage is the most common corner cut in this trade, and it shows up months later as a floor that looks hazy or scratches easily.
The three exposure levels, and what they cost
Cream polish keeps the top surface of the slab and reads smooth and uniform, at $3.50 to $6.00 per square foot. Salt and pepper cuts just below the cream and shows fine sand aggregate, at $3.50 to $9.00. Rock cut goes deep enough to expose full stone and is the most dramatic and most labor intensive, at $9.50 to $12.00. The exposure you can achieve depends on how the slab was poured and finished, which we check before quoting.
What drives your number up or down
Square footage moves price more than anything else because mobilization is fixed. A small residential floor carries a higher per foot rate than a 5,000 square foot commercial slab. Removing existing flooring, glue or thinset adds $1 to $3 per square foot. Joint filling, concrete repair and crack chasing are quoted separately. Dye adds $1 to $2, and stepping from a satin to a high gloss finish adds $0.40 to $3.00 per square foot.
Why it outlasts every coating
A polished floor is not a layer sitting on the slab. Grinding and progressively finer resin diamonds close the surface, then a densifier chemically hardens it from within. There is no film, so there is nothing to peel, bubble, chip or hot tire lift. Maintenance is a dust mop and a neutral cleaner. In a warehouse or a showroom that means no recoat cycle and no downtime every few years.
Straight pricing
Polished Concrete pricing in Dallas
These are installed DFW ranges and not a quote. Polished concrete is strongly size-dependent: the same salt and pepper finish prices near $9.00 per square foot on a 600 square foot room and from $3.50 on a 5,000 square foot floor, because setup, containment and mobilization cost the same either way.
Cream polish
$3.50 to $6.00per sq ft
Homes and offices where you want a soft, uniform, low-variation floor and the least material removed
- Metal and resin bond grit sequence with no deep cut
- Lithium silicate densifier
- Penetrating stain guard
- Gloss level 2 or 3 as selected
- Written maintenance routine
Salt and pepper
$3.50 to $9.00+per sq ft
The most requested finish in DFW. Retail, warehouse, commercial and residential floors that want an even speckled look
- From $3.50 per sq ft at 5,000 sq ft and up
- From roughly $4.00 per sq ft on general commercial work
- Near $9.00 per sq ft on small floors around 600 sq ft
- Very large commercial floors can reach $1.00 to $3.50 per sq ft
- Densifier, stain guard and gloss level selection included
Rock cut, full aggregate
$9.50 to $12.00per sq ft
Showpiece floors in retail, lobbies, restaurants and homes that want a terrazzo-like look from the existing slab
- Deep metal bond cut of a quarter inch or more
- Full resin polish sequence to the selected gloss level
- Densifier and stain guard
- Test area ground and approved before production, since exposure depends on the slab
Add-ons, priced separately
+$0.40 to $3.00per sq ft
Anything beyond the base polish. Quoted line by line so you can see what each item costs
- Gloss level upgrade: +$0.40 to $0.75 per sq ft
- Dye or color: $1.00 to $2.00 per sq ft
- Demolition of existing flooring: $1.00 to $3.00 per sq ft
- Joint fill: from $2.50 per linear ft. Cut, clean and refill existing joints: from $4.25 per linear ft
- Minor repairs $1.00 to $2.00 per sq ft, major repair or leveling $2.00 to $3.00 per sq ft
- Ram Board floor protection: about $0.40 per sq ft in material plus $0.30 to $0.70 per sq ft labor
Answers
Polished Concrete in Dallas: your questions
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How fast can you get to Dallas for polished concrete?
We run same-day service to Dallas in most cases, and we are roughly 20 minutes from our Grand Prairie showroom to downtown Dallas. Emergency calls are dispatched 24 hours a day. Call (817) 381-6173 and we will give you a real arrival window, not a vague promise.
Do you actually work in Dallas, or just advertise there?
We work in Dallas regularly and have since 2001. Alley-load garages are their own trade. Older detached structures have out-of-square openings and settled slabs, so a new door usually needs the jamb rebuilt and the track shimmed before anything hangs plumb and rolls quietly.
What does polished concrete cost in Dallas?
Pricing in Dallas matches our standard DFW pricing, with no travel surcharge. These are installed DFW ranges and not a quote. Polished concrete is strongly size-dependent: the same salt and pepper finish prices near $9.00 per square foot on a 600 square foot room and from $3.50 on a 5,000 square foot floor, because setup, containment and mobilization cost the same either way. We confirm the exact number before any work begins.
Which Dallas neighborhoods do you cover?
All of them. We work throughout Dallas including Lakewood, Preston Hollow, Kessler Park, Lake Highlands, and every ZIP in the city (75204, 75206, 75209, 75214, 75218 and more). Dallas County is core territory for us.
Is polished concrete a good flooring option for Dallas's hot climate?
Yes. Polished concrete is one of the best floors for Dallas heat because there is no film to soften, blister or lift. A slab hitting 100 degrees in an uncooled DFW garage or warehouse does not affect the finish, and the slab's thermal mass keeps the floor cooler than the air.
It is also the reason hot tire pickup, the common complaint about cheap garage coatings in Texas, is not a polished concrete problem at all.
How much does polished concrete cost per square foot in Dallas?
Polished concrete in Dallas runs $3.50 to $12.00 per square foot installed, depending on aggregate exposure and floor size. Cream polish is $3.50 to $6.00, salt and pepper runs from $3.50 on large floors to near $9.00 on small ones, and rock cut full aggregate exposure is $9.50 to $12.00.
Size drives the number harder than the finish does. Very large commercial floors can reach $1.00 to $3.50 per square foot.
Is polished concrete slippery when it rains or when tracked-in soil gets inside?
Polished concrete is not inherently slippery, and a properly polished floor typically tests at or above the slip resistance of polished stone or tile. Wet is a different question. Any hard smooth floor is slick with water or fine tracked-in soil on it, and Dallas entries collect both during a storm.
The practical fix is entry matting and a cleaning routine. Where wet exposure is constant, we specify a lower gloss level or add a traction treatment instead.
How does polished concrete hold up in high-traffic commercial spaces around Dallas?
Very well, which is why national retail and distribution operators specify it. Because the wear surface is the concrete slab itself, there is no coating to wear through in traffic lanes, and a densified polished floor in a busy Dallas retail entry will typically outlast any coating put in the same location.
The wear you will see is loss of gloss over years, not failure. Burnishing brings it back without replacing anything.
Polished Concrete in Dallas, handled today
Call (817) 381-6173 or send the form. Same business day response, and no travel surcharge for Dallas.