Preparing commercial floors at Aviator Park and Addlestone ONE
When a commercial unit or office changes hands, the floor under the old finish usually carries its history: carpet tile adhesive, patches of floor paint, a worn coating, and ridges where earlier repairs were left proud. New flooring will not glue reliably to any of that, and levelling compound poured over loose residue lets go along with it.
Aviator Park shows the range. Built for offices in 2011 on a former aircraft and bus building site, it has partly changed over to housing since. Turning offices into homes means floors designed for one use being refitted for another, often with old office adhesives to clear before new finishes go down. The commercial units in the Addlestone ONE scheme call for the same preparation whenever one is refitted.
A grinder fitted with diamond heads rotates against the surface and shaves it away a very thin layer at a time. That lifts adhesive, paint and thin coatings, removes laitance, and cuts down high spots and the lips that form where two bays of concrete meet. What is left is clean, sound and open, so primer and compound can bond.
Grinding is preparation and nothing more. If the finish is to be a resin system, a resin contractor lays it after we leave; resin and polished concrete are not part of our work. If the floor then needs to be made flat as well as clean, our floor levelling service in Addlestone is the next stage.
Extensions, garages and dust control in Addlestone
At home, grinding usually solves a smaller problem. About half of Addlestone's homes are post-war semis or houses from the 1970s and 1980s, and where one gains a rear extension and the new slab or screed meets the old floor there can be a lip of a few millimetres. Once the high side is ground off, the join is ready for compound and a continuous finish. Garage floors being converted, and older floors with glue left after carpet or vinyl comes up, are treated the same way.
Grinding works on local high spots only. If a floor falls away across a whole room or dips in the middle, taking enough off to level it would remove far too much, so we grind the peaks and level or screed the rest. There is also a depth limit: grinding a screed below its minimum, about 35mm for a domestic liquid screed, weakens it.
Dust is the other consideration. Concrete, screed and tile contain silica, and grinding produces respirable crystalline silica dust, which is hazardous to breathe. Every grinder we run is connected to dust extraction, and adjoining rooms, doorways and finished surfaces are sealed or covered. Where a coating is thick or the area very large, shot blasting may suit better, as set out on our floor preparation page.
How we price floor grinding in Addlestone
A fixed written price within 24 hours, once we know the area and what has to come off. See our floor screeding cost guide.
Who grinds your concrete floor in Addlestone
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
See what customers say in our Google reviews and on our testimonials page.
Concrete Floor Grinding from Slough to Addlestone
On the map, Addlestone sits south-south-east of Slough, about 12.9 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including KT15), next to Weybridge (1.5 miles), Chertsey (1.6 miles), Walton-on-Thames (3.4 miles) and Staines-upon-Thames (4.4 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
