Grinding unit floors along Asheridge Road, Chesham
A diamond grinder works like a very coarse sander for concrete. Segments set in rotating heads cut the surface away in thin passes, and the grade of diamond decides how hard each pass bites. That makes it the tool for jobs where something on top of the slab has to go, or where a few millimetres of high ground stand in the way of a flat floor.
Along Asheridge Road, older units need repairs or resurfacing from time to time, and a change of occupier is a natural moment for it. If carpet tiles are lifted from an office at Chiltern Court, tackifier and glue can be left behind. A unit on Anglo Business Park could have painted walkways or a worn coating the next tenant does not want. Grinding takes both back to bare concrete, so primer and compound, a new screed or new flooring bonds to the slab itself instead of to old residue.
New buildings need it too. The 12 warehouse units at Aerial Park need finished floors, and any new slab can carry lips at bay edges or trowel marks that would show through thin finishes. A grind removes them along with the weak surface layer. Resin systems laid by others also want an open, ground surface to key into, and we can prepare it to their specification. Laying the resin, or producing polished concrete, is left to specialists.
Shot blasting and scarifying overlap with grinding. They suit very large areas or thick coatings, and our floor preparation service covers them. Once a floor is ground, cracked or broken patches are dealt with under concrete floor repair.
Pond Park extensions and older Chesham house floors
Homes need grinding as well. Pond Park semis and post-war Chessmount houses are often extended at the back, and where the new slab or screed meets the old floor there is usually a lip of a few millimetres. Grinding that edge down, then levelling across both rooms, is neater than ramping compound over it.
Refits uncover the other job. Lift old carpet or vinyl and the concrete beneath is usually coated in adhesive that a new primer will not hold to. Homes built between 2000 and 2014 are 9% of the town, and floors of that age are reaching the point where first finishes come up.
Grinding has limits. It removes local high spots, but a floor that slopes across a room or dips in the middle stays that way, because cutting everything else down would take far too much off. The answer there is to grind the peaks, then lay compound or screed, as set out on our floor levelling page for Chesham. A screed can also be ground thinner than its minimum depth, so we check how deep it is first.
Dust is the other concern. Silica is present in concrete, screed and tiles, and cutting them throws up respirable crystalline silica dust. We grind only with extraction attached at the head, sheet off doorways and keep adjoining rooms closed.
How we price floor grinding in Chesham
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 Chesham
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 Chesham
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 12 miles from Chesham, which lies to the north. Postcodes here include HP5, and Amersham (1.9 miles), Berkhamsted (4.5 miles), Chorleywood (5.2 miles) and Tring (6.5 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
