How do you polish and seal a slab on grade floor with radiant heating?

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How so you take a concrete slab to a nice interior concrete floor?

Betsy Lund Published: May 20, 2020, 2:13 a.m.Last updated: May 21, 2020, 11:11 a.m.

We have in-floor radiant heating. The slab is the bottom floor of our home, which will be garage and apartment. We are interested in finishing the apartment floor to be a light grey concrete floor that looks nice. The concrete was poured 8 months ago, and we are noticing some divots. We live on a remote island with no specific concrete flooring experts, and I'm having trouble locating a large diamond grinder.

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