Preparing floors at Basil Hill, Rudloe and Corsham Media Park
Corsham Media Park, beside the old RAF Rudloe Manor, has studio space in former quarry tunnels, and the premises at Basil Hill and Rudloe add their own commercial floors to the town. Commercial floors like these collect layers over the years: carpet tile adhesive over older vinyl glue, painted markings, worn coatings and concrete bays that have curled at the joints. A new layer only holds as well as the surface it is bonded to, so those layers and lips have to come off first.
Grinding is a dry cutting process. Heads set with diamond segments spin against the floor and remove the top in thin, controlled passes. That takes off adhesive residue, floor paint, laitance and thin coatings, and it brings down high spots, trowel ridges and lips between bays. What is left is open, clean concrete or screed that primer can soak into.
We grind to prepare a floor for the next stage, which might be our own work or someone else's. Levelling compound or a new screed laid by us often follows. If a resin system is planned, a resin firm lays it; we do not install resin or polished concrete, but we can hand over a ground slab ready for them. Our machines and diamond tooling stay with our crew, and none of it is for sale or hire.
Where the coating is thick or the floor very large, shot blasting or scarifying can be faster, as set out under floor preparation and shot blasting. Damaged concrete found under old coverings is dealt with through repairs to cracked concrete floors.
Corsham extensions, garages and lifted carpet
Homes need grinding for smaller, more specific reasons. Semi-detached houses make up 32% of Corsham's homes, and the post-war ones among them are natural candidates for an extension. When the extension slab is cast, it rarely meets the original floor at exactly the same height. A raised lip along that line will telegraph through LVT or large tiles, so we grind the high side down and let a thin levelling coat finish the join.
Garages are another case. Before a garage becomes a room, any paint, oil marks and rough patches on its slab are ground off so the insulation and screed can be built up to the house level.
Then there is old adhesive. In older rooms, the glue under a lifted carpet or vinyl is a weak layer that a new compound or adhesive cannot hold to. Scraping takes off the loose part; grinding removes the rest.
Two limits apply. Grinding deals with local high points, so a whole room that slopes or sags is beyond it; there, the peaks are taken off and a levelling coat or screed does the rest. It also removes material, and cutting too deep can leave a screed below its minimum depth, so we check thickness first.
Silica is the safety point. Concrete, screed and tiles release respirable crystalline silica dust when ground, so our machines always run with extraction, and we seal off doorways to the rest of the house. For the levelling coat that usually follows, see floor levelling in Corsham.
How we price floor grinding in Corsham
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 Corsham
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 Corsham
Corsham is about 66.8 miles west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SN13. The nearest towns to it are Chippenham (3.5 miles), Melksham (4.7 miles), Calne (7.8 miles) and Trowbridge (7.9 miles).
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