Unit changeovers on Orbital Park and Waterbrook Park
Warehouse, studio and retail floors on Ashford's employment sites need high strength or fibre reinforced screeds laid to accurate levels, and they take a lot of wear. When a tenant moves out, the floor can show it: line marking paint, patches of carpet tile adhesive in the office area, glue from vinyl in a canteen, and lips of mortar where racking bases or partitions were fixed.
A new tenant's flooring cannot go on top of that. Paint and adhesive stop primers soaking in, and any ridge will show through a thin finish or rock a large tile. Grinding cuts those layers away with diamond segments in thin passes, back to firm concrete or screed, and takes down joint lips between the bays of a slab.
At a larger site such as Eureka Science and Business Park, or a retail unit at the Designer Outlet, the ground surface is handed straight on to the next stage. That might be a self levelling compound laid by us, a new topping under our commercial floor screeding, or resin laid by a specialist; resin and polished concrete finishes are not something we lay.
On very large open areas, or where a thick coating has to come off, shot blasting or scarifying can be quicker than grinding. Both fall under our floor preparation and shot blasting work, and we will say which suits once we have the floor size and details of the coating.
Dust is controlled throughout. Cutting concrete releases respirable crystalline silica, so every grinder runs with extraction attached, and neighbouring units and offices are screened off.
Extension joins and old adhesive in Ashford homes
Houses need grinding too, usually on a smaller scale. Extending semis is more likely in the older parts of Ashford, Willesborough and South Ashford among them, and the new slab rarely finishes at exactly the height of the old floor. A ridge of a few millimetres at the doorway is enough to stop LVT or large tiles running through, and grinding the high edge down is quicker and cleaner than building the whole room up.
Under old carpet or vinyl there is often hard, uneven adhesive, sometimes several layers of it. Garages being converted can have painted or oil-marked concrete. In both cases the surface is ground back to clean material, primed, and then made smooth with a latex layer for the new flooring or a levelling compound.
Know the limits before booking. Grinding takes off local high spots; it cannot bring a whole room into level if the slab falls or sags from one side to the other, and cutting a screed too deep can leave it below its minimum thickness. Where the fall runs across the room, the high points are ground off first and the rest is made up with compound or screed. For a slab that is cracked or breaking up rather than just high, concrete floor repair comes before any grinding.
We are a contractor, not a hire shop. Grinders and diamond tooling are not for sale or hire from us; our own team does the grinding as one stage of the job.
How we price floor grinding in Ashford
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 Ashford
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 Ashford
On the map, Ashford sits east-south-east of Slough, about 70.8 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including TN23, TN24 and TN25), next to Faversham (11.6 miles), Canterbury (12.8 miles), Sittingbourne (14.5 miles) and Whitstable (16 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
