Grinding refurbishment floors at the University of Chichester
Floors across a campus collect layers over the years. Lift a worn carpet or a vinyl sheet and you usually find adhesive, sometimes two or three generations of it, along with painted margins, old screed patches and ridges where repairs were made. New compound or flooring adhesive will not hold reliably on top of any of that.
A diamond grinder cuts the surface back in thin passes. It takes off the residue and the weak top skin together, flattens trowel marks and high spots, and grinds out the step where one bay of slab sits higher than the next. What remains is a clean, open surface that a primer can soak into.
Grinding has a clear limit. It deals with local high points but cannot correct a floor that falls across a room or has a wide hollow, because it only removes material. On those floors we grind first and then pour compound over the whole area, as described on our Bognor Regis floor levelling page.
The same process applies to a refit of hotel accommodation at the Butlin's resort, and the work can be split into small areas so the rest of the building stays in use. Where a refurbishment also needs new screed, that comes under commercial screeding. For very large open areas, shot blasting can be quicker than grinding, and we will say which method suits.
Grinding paint and glue in Bognor Regis houses
At home the work is smaller but the problems are similar. Semi-detached houses make up 24% of Bognor Regis homes, and when an old carpet or vinyl is lifted in a house of any age, the slab below often carries glue, paint or bitumen that has to go before LVT or compound.
Extensions are another case. Where a new slab or screed meets the original floor, a lip of a few millimetres can be ground down so the two line up. Garages with painted or oil stained floors need the coating removed before a new screed will bond, and the layers for a conversion are shown in our garage floor guide.
Dust is the part to take seriously. Silica is present in concrete, screed and tiles alike, and grinding turns it into a fine respirable dust that should not be breathed. We grind only with extraction fitted to the machine, and we sheet doorways so dust stays in the work area.
Two more points. A screed cut back too hard may end up below the depth it needs, so we measure before taking off more than a skim. And we are a contractor: the grinders and diamonds stay with our team rather than being sold or hired out, and resin or polished concrete finishes are left to specialists. The same work is covered on our Shoreham-by-Sea concrete floor grinding page.
How we price floor grinding in Bognor Regis
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 Bognor Regis
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 Bognor Regis
On the map, Bognor Regis sits south of Slough, about 51.7 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including PO21 and PO22), next to Littlehampton (6 miles), Chichester (6 miles), Selsey (6.4 miles) and Emsworth (12.5 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
