Grinding unit floors on Corinium and Reed Industrial Estate
A workshop or storage floor that has been in use for years carries its history on the surface: painted walkway lines, patches of old coating, tyre marks, the holes of removed racking and the adhesive from an office carpet. When a unit on Raans Road or Plantation Road changes hands, those layers have to come off before anything new will bond.
Grinding does that with rotating diamond heads that cut the top of the slab away in thin passes. Each pass strips paint, thin coatings and the weak laitance skin, and brings down ridges, trowel marks and the lips where one concrete bay meets the next. Left behind is bare, open concrete that takes a primer properly.
From there, the floor can go several ways. Levelling compound or a new screed can follow, laid by us. A resin system or polished finish can follow too, laid by a specialist, because we prepare floors for those trades but leave resin and polished concrete to them. Cracks and broken joints are dealt with as repairs to the concrete floor before the final pass.
For very large open areas or thick coatings, shot blasting or scarifying may be quicker than grinding, and our floor preparation page covers both methods. Whichever is used, the work is done by our own crew with our own machines, which we do not sell or rent out.
Amersham extensions, garages and lifted floor coverings
Houses in Amersham need grinding too, on a smaller scale. Post-war detached houses in Amersham are regularly extended, and where the new slab meets the old one at the back of the house, the join is rarely perfect. A ridge of a few millimetres in the opening shows through LVT and catches the edge of a large tile. We grind the high side down so the two floors meet, and then the whole area is levelled or screeded as one.
Garages are another case. Semi-detached houses account for 28% of Amersham's homes, and a garage being turned into a room often has a painted or oil marked floor that no primer or screed will grip. Grinding back to clean concrete is the first step, and the garage conversion floor guide explains the build-up that follows.
Lifting old carpet or vinyl in any house tends to leave adhesive behind. A thick or crumbling layer is ground off before a thin latex smoothing layer goes down.
There is a limit. Grinding removes local high spots; it cannot correct a floor that slopes or dips across a whole room, and taking too much off a screed can leave it thinner than its minimum depth. On a floor like that, we grind the peaks and then level or screed the rest.
How we price floor grinding in Amersham
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 Amersham
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 Amersham
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 10.1 miles from Amersham, which lies to the north. Postcodes here include HP6 and HP7, and Chesham (1.9 miles), Chorleywood (4 miles), Beaconsfield (4.9 miles) and Berkhamsted (6.2 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
