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The gloss comes from the sequence, not from any single pad. Burnishing is a maintenance stage — running a soft pad (resin puck, wool or burnishing pad) over an already-burnished floor to restore reflectivity, strip light scuffs and keep the mirror finish between full polishes. Burnishing is the full workflow that grinds, densifies and refines concrete to a mirror finish (metal → transitional → resin stages).
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Crews that rush this part rarely get a mirror finish.
Key points for the polishing sequence.
Our Burnishing Pads are made for this maintenance pass on glossy concrete.
This stage decides how much reflection the floor finally shows.
What matters most in this stage.
Miss this step and the gloss will not come up evenly.
A: The practical answer is, No — burnishing doesn't create mirror finish on a raw or troweled floor. The floor must be burnished first, then burnished for maintenance.
A: For most jobs, High speed — 1000–2500 rotations per minute on an auto-scrubber or burnisher, or a planetary grinder at high rotations per minute with a burnishing pad.
A: In short, High-traffic retail: weekly to monthly. Warehouses and offices: monthly to quarterly, depending on traffic.
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