Extension joins and stripped floors in Crowthorne houses
Generous plots in Crowthorne make room for substantial extensions, and every extension creates an edge. Where the new slab or screed meets the original house, there is often a lip along the line of the old wall, a ridge where two pours met, or a patch of rough finish that would print through LVT or sheet vinyl. A diamond grinder takes those back so one finish can run across the whole floor.
The second job is the floor revealed when old coverings come up. Lifting fitted carpet or cushion vinyl, whether in a house built between 2000 and 2014 (8% of the village) or an older one, can expose black bitumen adhesive, a film of carpet tackifier or a painted surface. New adhesive will not hold on any of them. Grinding cuts down through the residue to clean concrete in thin passes.
Garages are the third. A garage floor may carry oil stains, paint and a dusty, weak top. Before it becomes a gym or study, that top layer is ground off so the membrane and screed above can bond. The garage floor screed guide covers the build-up.
Grinding fixes local faults, not the overall shape of a floor. If a room slopes or dips from one side to the other, grinding the high points is only step one; the low areas are then filled with compound or the floor is screeded. And because every pass removes material, we check the depth of a screed before grinding it, so it is never left thinner than its minimum.
New slabs at Buckler's Park and dust control
New building brings its own grinding work. Phased building at Buckler's Park, off Nine Mile Ride, puts fresh slabs and screeds down over insulation. Fresh concrete and screed can finish with laitance, trowel marks or lips between bays, and before thin flooring or a resin coating by another contractor those are ground off so the surface is open and sound. Where a calcium sulphate screed needs its laitance taking off, anhydrite flow screed in Crowthorne explains that step.
Resin and polished concrete are left to other firms, and our grinders and diamond tooling are never hired out or sold. Our part is to prepare the base and hand it over ready for the next trade.
Dust is controlled at every stage. Cutting into concrete, screed or tiles lifts fine silica dust that is harmful to breathe. Each grinder runs with extraction attached, the rooms around the work are sealed off and the floor is vacuumed before we leave. In a lived-in Crowthorne house that means furniture out, doors closed and the route in protected.
Where coatings are thick or the area is very large, shot blasting may suit better, and our floor preparation service covers it. For business units, see concrete floor grinding in Bracknell.
How we price floor grinding in Crowthorne
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 Crowthorne
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 Crowthorne
On the map, Crowthorne sits south-south-west of Slough, about 13 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including RG45), next to Sandhurst (1.6 miles), Yateley (2.3 miles), Camberley (3 miles) and Wokingham (3.3 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
