Grinding factory floors on Corby's northern industrial estates
Factory and warehouse floors tend to wear hard over the years, and they often pick up painted walkways and patched areas along the way. When a building on Corby's northern estates is refurbished, those layers stand between the old slab and whatever comes next. Warehouse and factory floors here suit high strength and fibre reinforced screeds, and a screed bonded to an existing slab only holds if the surface beneath it is clean, sound and open.
Grinding gets it there. Diamond segments on rotating heads cut the top of the concrete away in fine layers, taking down ridges and lips between bays, trowel marks and high spots. The same passes strip floor paint, thin coatings and adhesive, and they remove laitance, the weak, powdery skin that forms on the surface of new concrete and screed. Primers and bonding agents can then key into firm material instead of dust.
The method has a range. On very large floors, or where a thick coating has built up over the years, shot blasting or scarifying can clear the area faster, and on the heaviest duty floors a higher strength screed often follows. Grinding comes into its own on offices, production areas being refitted, edges, and smaller sections where a big machine cannot work.
Two things sit outside what we offer. Grinders and diamond tooling are not for sale or hire from K & B, because our crew does the work itself. Resin and polished concrete are also outside our trade; where a specialist is putting down a resin system, we can prepare the slab for them.
Extension joins and garages on Corby New Town estates
On the New Town estates, kitchen extensions and porch and garage conversions are common projects, and each can leave a floor that needs grinding. Where an extension slab meets the original floor, a small upstand across the doorway shows through thin flooring. Grinding takes it flush before compound is run over the join. A garage turning into a room may have oil stains, tyre marks and floor paint, all of which need to come off before new layers are bonded or laid.
Inside older homes, lifting lino or carpet often leaves hard, dark adhesive stuck to the slab. A grinder cuts that back to bare concrete, ready for a latex smoothing coat or a new finish.
Grinding has a ceiling. It removes local high points, but a floor that falls or dips across the room needs levelling compound over the ground slab or a new screed as well. Taking too much off a screed can also leave it below its minimum thickness.
Dust is controlled throughout. Concrete and screed contain silica, and grinding throws up fine dust that is harmful to breathe, so every machine runs with extraction attached. Doorways are sealed and furniture covered so the rest of the house stays clean. For work towards Kettering, see concrete floor grinding in Kettering.
How we price floor grinding in Corby
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 Corby
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 Corby
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 66.1 miles from Corby, which lies to the north. Postcodes here include NN17 and NN18, and Desborough (6 miles), Kettering (6.2 miles), Burton Latimer (8.7 miles) and Market Harborough (9.4 miles) are close by.
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