Look before you budget for flooring
Lift a corner of the carpet in a bedroom closet. If terrazzo sits underneath, restoring it usually beats the price of a new floor. It also produces something no new floor can match. And it suits this climate: humidity does not harm it, and it stays genuinely cool underfoot.
When terrazzo restoration is not the answer
When the slab beneath has moved. Terrazzo is a topping, so it follows whatever the concrete does. A slab with differential settlement keeps opening the same crack, however well someone fills it. Sometimes a room was added and the terrazzo stops at the old wall line. Matching new to old is then effectively impossible, so a transition detail is the honest solution.
What restoration involves
First we remove the old adhesive, which is the slow part. Then we grind through progressively finer diamond abrasives. We fill any chips with matched material, then polish and seal. Filling hides a crack but never erases it. And the aggregate colour stays whatever someone poured in 1962.
The result is a floor with a depth that new material does not have, and it is original to the house.