Preparing slabs for units at The Steadings
A newly cast slab is rarely ready for its finish on the day it hardens. Bays poured on different days leave small lips at the joints, trowel marks stand proud, and a weak, dusty film of laitance sits on top. Flooring adhesive, levelling compound and coatings all need to grip firm concrete, not that film.
Grinding handles all of it. A machine fitted with rotating diamond segments shaves the top of the slab away in very thin layers. High points come down, ridges vanish and the soft surface goes, exposing open, sound concrete underneath.
Business, industrial and storage units are planned there. A unit like that might finish with carpet tiles in an office, sheet vinyl in a shop or a coating in a store. Where a resin coating is planned, grinding readies the slab and the coating firm takes over, since we do not lay resin or polished concrete. Where vinyl or LVT is going down, a ground surface takes primer properly, and our Cirencester levelling compound work can follow straight on.
One limit is worth knowing early. Grinding flattens local high points only. It cannot correct a slab that falls away across a whole unit or sags in the middle, so the usual answer there is to grind the high spots, then level or screed the low ground. For a very large unit or a thick existing coating, shot blasting may be quicker, and our floor preparation service covers it.
Extension joins, adhesive and garages in Cirencester
Extensions are the main floor work for 1970s to 1990s homes in Chesterton and Stratton, and the line where a new extension slab meets the original floor is a typical place for a ridge. A few millimetres of difference across the opening is enough to show through LVT. Grinding the high side down, then feathering the join with compound, gives one continuous floor.
Old adhesive is the other usual find. Lift a carpet or sheet vinyl that has been down for decades and the slab is often coated in dark or yellowed residue. New primer will not bond reliably to it, so it is ground back to clean concrete.
Garages being turned into rooms can carry oil stains, floor paint or a worn, dusty top. Grinding opens that surface before the new build-up goes on, and the layers that follow are explained in our garage floor screed guide. Detached houses are 18% of Cirencester's homes, and where one of those has a garage being converted, the slab usually needs this step first.
Dust is the real hazard. Concrete, screed and tile all contain silica, and cutting them throws up respirable crystalline silica dust. We grind only with extraction connected and sheet off the rooms next to the work.
How we price floor grinding in Cirencester
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 Cirencester
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 Cirencester
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 58.3 miles from Cirencester, which lies to the west-north-west. Postcodes here include GL7, and Stroud (10.9 miles), Royal Wootton Bassett (12.4 miles), Swindon (13.3 miles) and Cheltenham (13.5 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
