Grinding shop and workshop floors across Chatham
When a retail unit at the Pentagon Shopping Centre or on Horsted retail park is stripped for a new tenant, the slab left behind can still carry the last fit-out. There may be carpet tile adhesive, old vinyl glue, painted lines, sealer and ridges where partitions or counters were fixed. Each of these stops a new compound or adhesive from bonding properly.
Diamond grinding deals with all of them. Rotating heads fitted with diamond segments shave the slab or screed down a fraction at a time, taking residue and coatings off along with ridges, trowel marks and the lips between concrete bays. What remains is bare, sound material with a texture that primers and compounds can key into.
On the former dockyard land at Chatham Maritime, where homes sit alongside commercial uses, dockside conversions and workshop floors raise the same preparation questions. If the next layer is resin, a specialist lays it. Resin and polished concrete are not part of our work; our part ends with a clean, prepared slab.
Grinding is measured work. Every pass removes material, and over-grinding a screed can leave it below its minimum depth, so we check what is there before we start. Where a coating is thick or the area very large, shot blasting or scarifying through our floor preparation work may be the faster route, and concrete floor repair deals with broken or spalled areas once the surface is open.
Walderslade garages, extensions and grinding dust
Homes produce smaller grinding jobs. Around Walderslade, the Davis Estate, Wayfield and Weedswood are mainly post-war, and a house there may gain a rear extension or have its garage turned into a room. In a conversion, the old garage slab may carry oil, paint or a dusty surface that would weaken the bond of anything laid on top, and grinding cleans it back first. Where an extension slab meets the original floor, a lip at the join can be ground down so the new flooring runs straight through.
What grinding cannot do is flatten a floor that slopes or sags across the room. It deals with local high spots. If the whole floor is out, the high points are ground and the rest is brought up with compound or screed; Chatham floor levelling covers that stage, and thin latex screed for Chatham refits follows where vinyl or LVT is going down.
Grinding concrete, screed or tiles releases respirable crystalline silica dust, which is harmful to breathe. Every grinder we run is connected to dust extraction, and adjoining rooms are sheeted off before the first pass. In an occupied house, we agree beforehand which rooms stay in use and how the work area is closed off.
How we price floor grinding in Chatham
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 Chatham
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 Chatham
On the map, Chatham sits east of Slough, about 51.6 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including ME4 and ME5), next to Rochester (1 miles), Gillingham (2.5 miles), Snodland (5.2 miles) and Maidstone (7.7 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
