Curled and ridged screeds on Amesbury estates
Amesbury has one of the youngest housing stocks among Wiltshire towns, and on new build plots a floor occasionally goes wrong while it dries. The commonest faults are curling, where the edges of a bay lift as the screed shrinks and leave raised corners and a hollow sound, and cracking or ridging along a joint, a doorway or a heating pipe.
Grinding is often part of the cure, but timing matters. A curled screed can still be moving while it dries, so it is measured and checked again later before anything is cut. Once it has stopped moving, a grinder fitted with rotating diamond segments takes the raised edges down in thin passes while a straightedge checks progress. Any hollow areas are then filled with compound to bring the whole floor into line.
There is a real limit on heated floors. A liquid screed over underfloor heating needs at least 25mm of cover above the pipes, and grinding removes material for good. Take too much off and the screed is left thinner than its design depth, weaker and closer to the pipes. That is why high spots are ground only as far as needed and the rest is made up with compound or, if the floor dips over a large area, a new screed.
On calcium sulphate floors the same machine also takes off laitance that was never removed, leaving a hard surface for primer. Where the problem turns out to be a weak or hollow screed rather than its shape, screed repairs come before any finish.
Solstice Park units beside the A303
Warehouse and trade units at Solstice Park change hands from time to time. When a tenant moves out, the floor left behind often carries carpet tile glue, paint lines, worn sealer or patched repairs. Grinding takes that back to clean, firm concrete, ready for levelling compound, a new screed or the next tenant's floor covering. If a resin finish is planned, another firm lays it; polished concrete is not something we offer either, so our part is the preparation.
For very big areas or thick coatings, shot blasting or scarifying may suit better, which falls under our floor preparation service.
Dust control is not negotiable. Grinding concrete or screed throws up respirable crystalline silica dust. Every machine we run is connected to extraction, and adjoining areas such as a trade counter or office are sheeted off so the rest of the unit can keep working.
We are contractors, so we do not hire or sell grinders or tooling. Larger industrial floors are covered by commercial screeding for units, and there is a separate page on floor grinding in Andover.
How we price floor grinding in Amesbury
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 Amesbury
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 Amesbury
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 55.1 miles from Amesbury, which lies to the west-south-west. Postcodes here include SP4, and Tidworth (7 miles), Salisbury (7 miles), Andover (13.3 miles) and Devizes (15.5 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
