Craftsman Concrete Floors specializes in the installation, restoration, and repair of terrazzo flooring systems, offering durable and low-maintenance surfaces. From our corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas, we also provide comprehensive nationwide service, including regional support along the West Coast in California. Recognized among the country’s premier commercial flooring installers, we provide manufacturer-warrantied systems to America’s leading businesses. Our dedicated industry professionals draw from decades of expertise in terrazzo installation, materials manufacturing, and product advancement, ensuring outstanding quality, unmatched precision, and superior craftsmanship.
Terrazzo floors have long been admired in San Francisco for their inherent durability, beauty, and distinctive charm. When evaluating your terrazzo flooring project, it’s essential to review all aspects that shape installation costs. Factors influencing the total price include the selection of aggregate materials, installation techniques such as poured-in-place or precast methods, and the overall project scale. Additionally, customization choices such as intricate designs, patterns, or colors can impact expenses. By considering these key details upfront, you will not only better understand the investment required but also gain clarity for effectively aligning terrazzo flooring solutions with your project’s budget, functional needs, and aesthetic preferences.
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Thinset or ‘poured terrazzo’ flooring is the most common type of terrazzo floor installation. This type of terrazzo flooring offers incredible benefits such as longevity and durability, high impact and chemical resistance, low maintenance costs, and a timeless appearance. However, poured terrazzo flooring is challenging to install and requires specialized labor and materials.
Poured terrazzo flooring has one of the highest upfront installation costs of any type of flooring available. However, as discussed in this article, terrazzo flooring can provide one of the lowest long-term flooring costs for the correct use case. For this reason, we install terrazzo flooring in high-traffic use cases such as stadiums, municipal buildings, schools, and even jails.
Terrazzo tile can achieve a similar aesthetic as poured terrazzo flooring with a more straightforward installation at a lower cost. Modern terrazzo tiles can come in large format sizes, such as 24″x 24″, providing a more contemporary appearance than other tiles. However, large-format tiles are more expensive to install and manufacture because of their size. Although terrazzo tiles are less costly than poured epoxy terrazzo flooring, they’re one of the more expensive types of tile installations available.
Terrazzo flooring combines an epoxy resin binder, marble dust, and aggregates. These aggregates are most often made of marble chips; however, granite, glass, polished metals, and shells are also commonly incorporated. One benefit of terrazzo flooring is that many of these materials can be recycled materials, creating a floor with more environmental benefits than other types of flooring, such as hardwood or ceramic tile. This environmental advantage can be used to gain LEED and other environmental certifications in some circumstances. The origin and quality of aggregates are variable and significantly impact the cost of a finished floor.
Previous tile, carpet, and wood flooring installations each bring different challenges during the repair and restoration process. For example, glue left by a wood flooring installation will stain and discolor the terrazzo and requires careful surface grinding to restore. Removing carpet tack strips will leave voids in terrazzo that we will fill with appropriate, matching terrazzo material.
Marble Chips can range from $16-$40 per 50lb bag
Mother of Pearl is $80 – $100 per 50lb bag
The overall square footage of the installation impacts the cost of terrazzo flooring. Because we most often install terrazzo floors on large projects, such as stadiums and schools, economies of scale usually kick in at 10,000 sq. ft. or more. That means for small projects, such as residential kitchens, bathrooms, and laundry rooms, the price per square foot will be higher than for larger jobs, such as municipal buildings. Because terrazzo flooring materials are specialized, material costs per square foot are higher for projects under a few thousand square feet. Large projects are often specified with more economical materials to reduce cost.
$30+ per square foot
$18 per square foot
There is a direct correlation between the complexity of a terrazzo flooring design and a project’s cost. One of the terrazzo’s most desirable features is its endless design flexibility. Logos and other complex designs, such as flowers, birds, and insects, are often incorporated into terrazzo flooring. Because these intricate designs require a large variety of aggregates and epoxy colors as well as custom-bent metal divider strips, floors with complex designs cost more. Terrazzo flooring cost for single-color floors with simple divider strip patterns will always be much lower than for intricate floors. Fortunately for homeowners, most residential installations tend to be simple in design.
$20 – $30 per square foot
$25 – $60 per square foot
Terrazzo material is often poured into a cove base, providing seamless transitions between the floor and walls. If you’re unfamiliar with it, a cove base is a curved molding made from terrazzo that is seamlessly integrated into the flooring system. It eliminates the sharp 90-degree transition between the floor and wall, creating a smooth, rounded edge. This molding is often used in public restrooms, hospitals or kitchens, allowing easy cleaning and preventing moisture damage to walls. Because the cove base must be sculpted and polished by hand, this addition means an increase in cost.
Additionally, terrazzo can be poured onto stair treads, covering both the horizontal and vertical planes for a sleek, continuous look. This technique creates a durable staircase, perfect for high-traffic areas. However, the intricate hand-detailing required for casting and polishing makes terrazzo staircases quite pricey.
$28 – $35 per linear foot at 6″ tall
$80 – $135 per square foot, depending on riser configuration.
One of the advantages of terrazzo flooring is the ability to customize its level of reflectivity during the polishing process. While high-gloss finishes are commonly chosen for their mirror-like appearance, satin or matte finishes are popular in modern construction for their subtle, understated elegance.
High-gloss finishes require additional polishing steps compared to matte finishes, which makes them slightly more expensive. However, the difference in cost is typically minimal, as the extra polishing is not particularly time-intensive.
$.50 to $1.00 more expensive for most floors.
Thin-set terrazzo flooring is generally installed directly on a structural concrete slab. Subfloor preparation includes grinding the existing subfloor and installing an epoxy-based primer. This primer is required to ensure a high level of adhesion between the structural concrete slab and the terrazzo flooring. Subfloor preparation for new construction will always be less expensive than renovation projects, as we must remove fewer contaminants and make fewer repairs for new construction projects.
When installing a terrazzo floor, the subfloor must be tested for moisture transmission. If the transmision of moisture is high, a moisture vapor barrier must be installed.
At Craftsman Concrete Floors, we always restore terrazzo floors correctly–with a heavy diamond grind and polish. This provides the most durable, slip-resistant terrazzo floor possible.
$1.00 to $1.50 per square foot for most floors.
When installing terrazzo flooring in a renovation project, we must carefully demolish the existing flooring to prevent damage to the subfloor.
$1.00 to $3.00 per square foot for most floors.
Basic thin-set terrazzo flooring ranges from $15-40 per square foot.
Terrazzo flooring with complex patterns can range from $25-$60 per square foot.
Terrazzo flooring with unique aggregates, intricate patterns, or smaller project sizes can cost up to $100 per square foot.
High-quality terrazzo tiles start around $18 per square foot.
Depending on size and complexity, the installation cost can be $10 – $15 per square foot.
The installation will take at least three days for small projects such as residential bathrooms or kitchens. Because terrazzo is a poured product requiring cure time, it is impossible to complete these installations in fewer days. The installation time will vary based on the overall square footage for larger jobs such as commercial buildings.
Because terrazzo flooring is extremely durable, these floors provide a long-term solution for buildings that require a very long life. In fact, for most terrazzo installations, these floors will generally exceed the usable life of the building. Terrazzo maintenance is usually as simple as sweeping, mopping, or auto-scrubbing. Because of this, the cost of a terrazzo floor across its life is generally lower than any other type of flooring. Further, for businesses that cannot accept any downtime, such as stadiums, business owners can be confident that their terrazzo flooring will be in good order throughout its service life.
Craftsman Concrete Floors is a specialty floor installation company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Founded in 1999, we offer nationwide in-house service installing Polished Concrete, ESD Epoxy, Terrazzo Floors, Urethane Cement, and Concrete Overlays through our regional offices.
Terrazzo flooring is commonly selected for government and civic buildings, such as courthouses, city halls, and public libraries, due to its exceptional durability and timeless aesthetic quality. In cities like San Francisco, where architectural styles often merge historic charm with modern innovation, terrazzo floors effortlessly complement diverse building designs. Additionally, terrazzo’s sustainable nature and longevity significantly lower long-term maintenance and replacement expenses, providing cost-effective infrastructure solutions. Given terrazzo’s versatile composition utilizing recycled materials, it meets sustainability objectives while offering flexibility in design, making it especially suitable for high-traffic public spaces.
Terrazzo flooring is frequently selected for luxury residential developments, particularly high-end homes and condominiums, as it delivers a sophisticated, custom aesthetic that enhances the home’s overall appeal and market value. Its exceptional durability and minimal maintenance needs ensure that terrazzo remains a cost-effective, long-term investment for discerning homeowners, especially considering it can last decades without extensive repairs or refurbishment. While natural terrazzo, incorporating genuine stone aggregates, may be slightly pricier upfront at around $40 to $75 per square foot installed, its timeless beauty, flexibility in colors and design choices, and unmatched longevity significantly offset initial costs.
Terrazzo flooring is frequently chosen for high-traffic sports and entertainment facilities because of its exceptional strength and durability. Its resistance to stains, spills, and heavy pedestrian traffic ensures surfaces remain pristine even in busy areas like concessions or walkways—precisely why prominent venues such as San Francisco’s Chase Center integrate it into their concourse areas. Additionally, terrazzo’s customizable design options allow venue-specific logos or branding to be permanently embedded into the flooring. Although natural terrazzo can be costlier at approximately $40-$90 per square foot, its exceptional longevity justifies the investment.
Terrazzo flooring installation costs typically range from $25 to $90 per square foot, depending on factors such as design complexity, aggregate materials, and surface preparation requirements. In California, pricing may trend toward the higher end due to regional labor and material costs.
Yes, incorporating recycled materials such as glass or marble chips can influence terrazzo installation costs. While recycled aggregates can sometimes reduce material expenses, specialized sourcing or unique color blends may slightly increase overall project costs.
Sealing terrazzo floors is a necessary step included in the installation process and typically does not significantly impact overall costs. However, premium sealers or specialized protective coatings may slightly increase the total project budget.
Terrazzo flooring is popular in educational institutions due to its exceptional durability, low maintenance requirements, and long-term cost-effectiveness. Schools and universities, including many in San Francisco, appreciate terrazzo’s ability to withstand heavy foot traffic and remain visually appealing for decades.
Although terrazzo flooring installation has a higher upfront cost compared to options like vinyl or tile, its longevity and minimal maintenance requirements make it a cost-effective choice for retail and shopping centers. Craftsman Concrete Floors often recommends terrazzo for high-traffic commercial spaces due to its long-term value and aesthetic appeal.
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