Industrial floors on Wildmere and Thorpe Way Industrial Estate
Workshop and factory floors pick up a lot over their working life. Floor paint marking out bays and walkways, patches of old coating from a past occupier, adhesive under former office areas, and lips where slab bays were finished at slightly different heights all sit between you and a new finish. When a unit on the Wildmere or Thorpe Way industrial estates is refitted or let to a new firm, those have to come off before compound, screed or a coating can bond.
Diamond grinding removes them by cutting the surface back in thin layers. Rotating heads fitted with diamond segments travel over the floor; broad passes take off paint and thin coatings, while concentrated work along a joint flattens the step between bays. The result is sound concrete with a light key for the primer.
The same applies to food and production buildings. The Jacobs Douwe Egberts factory in Ruscote has been a major employer since the 1960s, and floors in buildings of that kind suit grinding as part of repairs or refits.
Our work is preparation. We do not lay resin or polished concrete, so where a client wants one, the specialist receives a ground floor ready for it. Damaged slabs need concrete floor repair before grinding, and floors taking heavy loads may then need a heavy duty screed for commercial units. Shot blasting or scarifying can be quicker for very large areas or thick coatings.
Wall lines, extension joins and garage slabs in Banbury
At home, grinding is a smaller, more targeted job. Ruscote's post-war houses are prime territory for knock throughs, and taking out a wall leaves a strip of rough concrete, plaster and mortar where it stood. Grinding that strip down to the surrounding floor, then priming, gets it ready for compound and a single new floor across both rooms.
Extensions create a similar line where new slab meets old. A few millimetres of lip along the join is ground off so the two surfaces meet before any thin finish goes down.
Detached houses are 18% of Banbury's homes, and a garage being turned into a room can carry oil stains, paint or sealer on its slab. Those come off before insulation and screed, or before a finish is bonded to the concrete, as the garage conversion screed guide explains.
Grinding cannot fix everything. It takes down local high spots, but a floor that slopes or dips across a whole room needs compound or a new screed once the high points are off. Too much grinding can also leave a screed thinner than its minimum depth.
Dust control is not optional. Concrete and screed contain silica, so we grind only with extraction running and sheet off the rest of the house.
How we price floor grinding in Banbury
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 Banbury
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 Banbury
On the map, Banbury sits north-west of Slough, about 47 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including OX16), next to Brackley (8.3 miles), Bicester (13.8 miles), Buckingham (15.4 miles) and Daventry (15.4 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
