Craftsman Concrete Floors specializes in the installation, restoration, and repair of terrazzo flooring systems, renowned for their durability and low-maintenance appeal. From our corporate headquarters in Dallas, Texas, we provide complete nationwide service, delivering custom flooring solutions across numerous states, including projects throughout Kansas. As one of America’s leading commercial flooring installers, we deliver manufacturer-backed warranty systems for premier clients nationwide. Our seasoned experts offer decades of experience in precision installation techniques, advanced materials manufacturing, and custom product development, ensuring exceptional craftsmanship on every project.
Terrazzo floors offer lasting elegance and strength, making them a popular flooring choice for residential, office, and commercial spaces in Wichita. When planning your flooring project, it’s important to understand the various factors influencing terrazzo installation pricing. Project size, chosen materials, and installation techniques significantly impact the final expense. For example, selecting elaborate patterns, intricate designs, or unique color combinations can increase the installation cost, while simpler, classic designs may present a more budget-friendly alternative. By thoroughly examining each factor involved, you can clearly understand what contributes to terrazzo flooring costs and confidently align your preferences with the best balance between aesthetics, functionality, and affordability.
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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.
In healthcare settings, terrazzo flooring offers critical sanitary advantages with its seamless, non-porous finish that inherently resists bacterial growth and contamination, aligning perfectly with stringent hygiene standards essential in hospitals and clinics. Additionally, terrazzo’s exceptional durability makes it well-equipped to handle high foot traffic and frequent cleaning, substantially lowering long-term maintenance expenses. Although initial installation costs for terrazzo floors may be higher compared to other flooring alternatives, their lasting durability and simplified upkeep often result in significantly lower overall lifecycle expenditures, making terrazzo a cost-effective flooring solution for medical facilities nationwide.
Terrazzo is a popular flooring choice for corporate and commercial offices in cities like Wichita, thanks to its ability to create a professional and upscale appearance, particularly in lobbies and common areas. Known for its exceptional durability, terrazzo maintains a pristine, high-end look by resisting scratches and stains, even under continuous foot traffic. While natural stone flooring can be costly, terrazzo provides a more budget-friendly alternative due to significantly lower installation and lifetime maintenance expenses. Additionally, terrazzo’s versatility in design accommodates custom color combinations, making it ideal for branding integration in office spaces.
Terrazzo flooring is particularly suited for airports and transportation hubs, such as Kansas’ Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, due to its exceptional resilience in high foot traffic areas, requiring minimal maintenance and infrequent repairs. Its sleek, modern appearance complements terminal aesthetics, reflecting a contemporary feel—an important consideration for busy terminals aiming to provide travelers with a visually pleasing environment. Furthermore, terrazzo’s slip-resistant qualities significantly boost safety for travelers and airport staff. Comparatively, terrazzo offers a cost-effective alternative to natural stone flooring, which often involves substantially higher expenses due to labor-intensive repairs and increased maintenance requirements.
Yes, pre-manufactured terrazzo tiles are available and offer a cost-effective alternative to poured terrazzo flooring. These tiles come in standard sizes and can significantly reduce installation costs, making them a practical choice for projects with tighter budgets.
Terrazzo flooring is exceptionally durable and can easily support heavy machinery or equipment, making it ideal for industrial or commercial spaces. In Kansas, terrazzo floors are commonly used in facilities such as manufacturing plants and warehouses due to their strength and longevity.
Terrazzo mixes typically use aggregate sizes ranging from #0 (approximately 1/16″) to #2 (approximately 3/8″). Smaller aggregates provide a smoother, more uniform appearance, while larger aggregates create a more textured, visually dynamic finish.
Terrazzo flooring itself is VOC-free, as it is composed primarily of natural aggregates and cementitious or epoxy binders. At Craftsman Concrete Floors, we prioritize using low-VOC or VOC-free sealers and adhesives to ensure a healthier indoor environment.
Terrazzo flooring offers significant advantages in historic restoration projects, including its ability to replicate original designs and patterns authentically. In Wichita, terrazzo has been successfully used in restoring historic buildings, providing both aesthetic continuity and long-lasting durability.
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