Preparing commercial floors at Bath Quays and in the centre
Bath Quays is the city's office and business development on the riverside, while the historic centre has its own run of shop, office and hospitality fit-outs. Newer commercial floors still need preparation at fit-out. A slab poured in bays can leave raised edges where the bays meet, and a screed can carry a weak surface skin of laitance that adhesive will not grip. Grinding takes both off.
When an office or shop is refitted rather than fitted out new, the problem is usually what the last tenant left. Carpet tile adhesive, floor paint and thin coatings all have to come up before compound or new flooring goes down, and a diamond grinder strips them back to clean, sound concrete. Thick coatings over a large area may suit shot blasting or scarifying instead, which come under our floor preparation work.
A ground surface is a starting point, not a finished floor. It is ready for levelling compound, a new bonded topping, tiles or carpet, or a resin system laid by a specialist. Resin and polished concrete are outside our work, and our machines and diamond tooling are never sold or hired out: our own team brings them and does the grinding.
On a fit-out with a fixed opening date, grinding is booked early. Once it is done and the floor primed, a thin compound for the new finish can follow straight away.
Extension joins and garages in Twerton and Weston
Much of the new housing in Twerton, Weston and Combe Down dates from the post-war decades, and an extension to one of those homes usually gets a conventional screed. The join between the extension and the original floor is where grinding earns its place. Two slabs laid decades apart seldom finish at the same height. Grinding the high side down, then levelling across, avoids a ridge under the new kitchen floor.
Garages are treated the same way. Oil, paint and old sealers come off before a garage floor is screeded or levelled, so the new layer bonds properly.
In older houses, lifting carpet or vinyl often reveals tarry or hardened adhesive. Scraping rarely gets it all, and grinding removes the rest without soaking the floor.
Two limits apply. A floor that falls or dips over a large area cannot be ground flat; the high spots are ground and the rest made up with compound or screed. And grinding a screed too far can leave it below its minimum thickness, so depths are checked as the work goes on.
Homes built since 2000 make up 15% of Bath's stock, and recent growth has come on old industrial and defence land such as Mulberry Park at Foxhill. Newer floors can still have ridges or laitance to remove before a refit. Silica dust from grinding is hazardous on any site, new or old, so every grinder runs with extraction and adjoining rooms are sealed off.
How we price floor grinding in Bath
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 Bath
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Concrete Floor Grinding from Slough to Bath
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 74.7 miles from Bath, which lies to the west. Postcodes here include BA2 and BA1, and Trowbridge (7.9 miles), Corsham (8.3 miles), Melksham (9.6 miles) and Frome (10.6 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
