Grinding unit floors at Ditchling Common Industrial Estate
An industrial or trade unit floor builds up history. Painted walkways, line markings, worn coatings, oil and the ridges between slab bays all sit on the surface, and none of it gives a new finish a sound base to bond to. A diamond grinder takes the top of the slab off in thin layers, removing the coating and the weak skin with it, and leaves bare, open concrete.
Offices and carpeted units present a different problem. Carpet tiles and vinyl leave adhesive behind when they are lifted, and new compound will not grip it. Grinding cuts that residue away, along with trowel marks and small high spots, so the primer can soak into clean material.
It is worth being clear about what grinding cannot do. It only removes material, so it corrects local high points but not a unit floor that falls from one end to the other or dips in the middle. For those, we grind first and then pour compound across the area, as explained on our Burgess Hill floor levelling page. If the slab itself is cracked or breaking up, concrete floor repair comes before any grinding.
Shops in the redeveloped Martlets Shopping Centre raise the same questions on a smaller scale. For very large floors or thick coatings, shot blasting or scarifying through our floor preparation service can be quicker.
Extension lips and garages in Burgess Hill houses
In homes, grinding is usually about joins and old coverings. When a 1970s or 1980s Burgess Hill semi gains a rear extension, its new slab and screed are meant to sit flush with the original concrete. Where the new floor ends up a few millimetres proud, the lip is ground down before compound or flooring runs across both rooms.
Old carpet glue and vinyl adhesive are the other common task. Detached houses make up 29% of Burgess Hill homes, and the garage on a house like that may also have a painted floor, which has to come off before a conversion screed will bond.
Dust is controlled throughout. The silica in concrete, screed and tiles becomes a fine, harmful dust once ground, so our grinders always run with extraction attached and doorways are sheeted.
We check screed depth before grinding, since a screed that loses too much of its thickness is no longer up to its job. Grinders and diamond tooling are not something we sell or hire out, and resin or polished concrete is not laid by us; if resin follows, a specialist lays it on our prepared surface. Grinding in Uckfield is covered on the Uckfield concrete floor grinding page.
How we price floor grinding in Burgess Hill
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 Burgess Hill
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 Burgess Hill
On the map, Burgess Hill sits south-south-east of Slough, about 45.5 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including RH15 and BN6), next to Haywards Heath (3.1 miles), Lewes (8.5 miles), Brighton and Hove (9.2 miles) and Southwick (9.6 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
