Grinding trade and shop floors around Wincheap and Whitefriars
Grinding is the step between stripping a floor and laying a new one. Machines with rotating diamond heads shave thin layers off the surface of the concrete or screed, cutting down ridges, trowel marks and the lips that form where two bays of concrete meet. The same passes strip laitance, glue residue, painted finishes and thin coatings, so what is left is a surface that a levelling compound, a screed or a new covering can grip.
Wincheap Industrial Estate runs alongside Wincheap as a trading park, and in 1996 it gained a retail park close to where the A28 meets the A2. Trade counters there and shop fits in the Whitefriars Shopping Centre both start from whatever floor the last occupier left. Once the old finish is lifted, the slab underneath can carry years of glue, painted markings and patches, and grinding takes it back to bare concrete before anything else goes down. Where the next layer is resin, a specialist lays it; we hand the floor over clean and ready for them.
Before starting we find out what the floor is made of and how thick it is. Taking too much from a screed can leave it thinner than its minimum depth, so the amount to remove is measured and agreed, not guessed.
For very large areas or thick coatings, shot blasting or scarifying may be quicker than grinding. Both come under our floor preparation service, and we say which suits the unit when we price it.
Canterbury garages, extensions and the dust question
At home, grinding tends to solve smaller problems. Where a new extension slab meets the old house floor, there can be a ridge that would show through LVT, and a few passes take it down. A garage that is becoming a study or bedroom may have oil stains or painted concrete that a new screed or compound will not stick to. Lift an old carpet or vinyl in a kitchen and a crust of adhesive is often left behind.
Grinding has limits. It removes local high spots, but a floor that falls or sags across the whole room cannot be ground flat. In that case we grind the high points and bring the rest up with compound or a screed; levelling a Canterbury floor explains that second stage, and a thin latex finish over the ground surface suits vinyl and LVT.
Dust is the other issue. Concrete, screed and tiles all contain silica, and grinding them releases fine respirable crystalline silica dust. We grind only with extraction connected, and we seal off the rooms next to the work, which is important in a lived-in house or a shop trading next door. Homes built between 1973 and 1999 make up 21% of the city's stock, and floors of that age have often had more than one covering laid and lifted.
How we price floor grinding in Canterbury
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 Canterbury
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 Canterbury
On the map, Canterbury sits east-south-east of Slough, about 76.5 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CT1, CT2 and CT3), next to Whitstable (5.9 miles), Herne Bay (6.7 miles), Faversham (8.5 miles) and Ashford (12.8 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.