Microcement Flooring: What It Is, Where It Works, What It Costs

A microcement floor is a continuous surface with no grout lines and no seams. It goes on about 2 mm thick over the floor you already have, which is why it is used in renovations where tearing up the old floor is the expensive part.

What it can go over

Concrete, tile, plywood, MDF. The two things that matter are that the surface is sound and that it is still. Loose tiles get fixed or removed. A springy plywood subfloor gets stiffened. Microcement is 2 mm of mineral coating — it follows what is underneath it, it does not correct it.

Which system you need

Core is primer, microcement, sealer. It covers interior walls, bare concrete floors and indoor fireplaces.

Reinforced adds fiberglass mesh bedded into a structural build coat. You need it for anything wet, anything outdoors, and any floor that is not bare concrete. The mesh is what stops movement underneath reaching your finish.

For floors that means: a bare concrete slab indoors can take Core. Everything else — over tile, over plywood, a kitchen, an entry, anything that gets wet — is Reinforced. Most floors are Reinforced.

What a floor costs

Materials only, doing the work yourself, our systems work out at roughly $8 a square foot on Core and $14 on Reinforced.

That number improves with size. Products come in whole units and you cannot buy half a pail, so a 400 sq ft living room lands near $8 a square foot while a 150 sq ft room lands nearer $12 — same products, more of them left over. If you are doing a floor now and another next year, ordering together is dramatically cheaper per square foot than ordering twice.

Our material calculator works out the exact products and quantities for your area.

How it goes down

Primer first, to grip what is there. On Reinforced, fiberglass mesh bedded into two build coats, which is the layer doing the structural work. Then two coats of microcement, which is the surface you see. Then two coats of sealer, on every job, no exceptions.

The waterproofing is in the microcement itself, not the sealer. The sealer is there to protect the finish from water, cleaning and daily wear.

Coarse or smooth

Coarse levels and fills, so the pass you see can be thinner. Smooth is the finish coat, and you can lay it as flat or as clouded as you like. On a floor most people run coarse then smooth.

Who can buy it

Most microcement in the United States is sold only to certified installers. Microvella is not. No licence, no trade account, no proof you work in the industry — you choose your system and order it.

Microvella ships late 2026. Join the waitlist and we will email you the day it is ready to order.

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