Preparing trade unit slabs at Kingsditch and Runnings Road
Among the newer premises are the 14 trade counter and warehouse units of Festival Trade Park, reached off Runnings Road. Trade and warehouse floors are built for storage and vehicles rather than thin finishes. When a unit is fitted out with a counter, an office or a showroom, the slab under those areas has to be ready for a much finer finish.
Grinding is how that starts. A machine with rotating diamond segments planes away the top of the concrete in thin passes, taking off painted lines, a worn sealer, tyre marks, adhesive from old carpet tiles and the small lips that form where two concrete bays meet. What is left is clean and open, with a texture that primers and compounds can key into.
Next comes whatever the plan specifies. That might be levelling compound, a new screed, LVT or tiles, or a resin floor put down by a specialist; we prepare the slab to the surface texture their system needs, but resin and polished concrete are not things we lay.
One limit is worth being clear about. A grinder removes peaks. It cannot lift a dip, and on a floor that falls across the whole unit it only deals with part of the problem, so we grind the high areas and then level or screed the rest. We also measure screed depth before grinding one, since thinning a screed below its minimum weakens it. Across a very big floor, or where a coating is thick, shot blasting or scarifying may be faster, and our preparation and shot blasting service covers those.
Extension joins and garages in Cheltenham homes
Cheltenham's post-war semis are commonly extended, and where a new slab meets the old kitchen floor, the two seldom finish at precisely the same height. A ridge along that line will telegraph through LVT or vinyl and can crack tiles. Grinding takes the lip off so the floors run together, and any small step left behind can be finished with latex screed over the join.
In older rooms, lifting carpet or vinyl often exposes a layer of old adhesive. It has to come off before anything new is stuck down, and grinding is the clean way to take it off concrete. Garages turned into rooms are similar: paint, oil and a rough surface are ground away first, and our guide to garage conversion floors sets out what usually follows.
Dust needs proper control indoors. Concrete, screed and tile all hold silica, and the grinding process turns it into fine respirable crystalline silica dust. We grind only with extraction running, close off the room with sheeting and protect the rest of the house. Our machines and diamond tooling are not for sale or hire, and our own crew does the work from start to finish.
How we price floor grinding in Cheltenham
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 Cheltenham
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 Cheltenham
On the map, Cheltenham sits west-north-west of Slough, about 66.5 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including GL50, GL51, GL53 and GL52), next to Tewkesbury (7.2 miles), Gloucester (7.7 miles), Stroud (12.3 miles) and Cirencester (13.5 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
