Restoring Terrazzo Tiles Hidden Under Carpet | Refurbished | Insider

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.

In 50 years we will see a video on how these floors are being covered by luxurious carpets or rugs that have become trendy.

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Probs “the greatest generation” that puts shitty carpet over things like that. Just their style 🙄

FREEZING COLD though. This is a bad idea.

"Terrazzo is indestructible" proceeds to point out that the terrazzo has cracks, missing chunks, holes...

fun drinking game to this video, take a shot everytime they say terrazzo

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

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.

In this episode of "Boomers covered up what?"

Beautiful work, well done to the workers!

What war criminal thought putting carpet over terrazzo was a good idea.

Noice

I love that flooring!

Who decided to cover terrazzo with carpet?? 🫢

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

In Italy this kind of tiles are used in the affordable housing, so I don’t really find it fancy😂

Cool!

Amazing, thanks for sharing 💗

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 👍

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

For the first 30 secs I'm like "why is he using turd like that

Beautiful

Why in the heck would you carpet a terrazzo floor?

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

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

Great job 👍😊

amazing !

Only Terrazzo can really understand Terrazzo. What's Terrazzo motivations, needs, desires? Only Terrazzo knows ...

What are doing glueing the carpet to the floor... Heard of grippers?

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

Imagine covering up terrazo flooring with carpet..... the culprit needs life in prison.

That looks amazing!

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

Ur mixing what to pour between cracks

Did a beautiful job.

Beutiful hard work. Must be very expensive, right?

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.

Bravo. Nice job you done

So what I'm hearing is i should hire a proffessional to restore my terrazzo floor and not try and do it myself 😂

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

Wow

Bravo! Well done!

Polished concrete is more than good enough

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

Beautiful!

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

Excellent job, Mr. Kosta!

What do you use for grout/fixing cracks?

Please, can you tell me the name of thst attachment on the grinder/ sander that has a vacuum hose attached and the wheel you use to grind that please.