Garage and extension slabs on Earl Shilton semis
A garage floor is built for cars, not kitchens. On a semi being converted, the old slab may carry oil stains, paint, a rough finish and a ridge along the door line. Before insulation, a membrane or a bonded screed goes on, those surface problems have to go. A diamond grinder cuts the top of the concrete away in thin passes, taking the contamination with it and leaving a clean face for whatever comes next.
Extensions throw up a different job. Where an extension slab joins the original floor, the two seldom line up perfectly at the threshold. Where a new pour finished a few millimetres proud of the old kitchen, or two sections of slab ended up at slightly different heights, grinding takes the lip down so the floor runs through the doorway. Trowel marks and ridges left on a new screed can be dealt with on the same visit.
Knocked-through kitchen diners add a third. Remove a wall and there is usually a strip of rough concrete, mortar spill and old screed where it stood. Grinding that strip flush is often quicker than chasing it out by hand.
Afterwards the surface is vacuumed and ready for primer, a thin levelling pour or tiles. If the slab itself is cracked or breaking up, concrete floor repair has to come first.
Old glue and paint on Earl Shilton floors
Lift an old carpet or vinyl in an older house and the concrete underneath may be coated with adhesive or patchy tile glue. New adhesive will not bond reliably to it, and levelling compound laid over it can let go. Grinding removes the residue down to sound concrete.
The town's industrial past left other kinds of floor. Late Victorian factories and garden workshops survive in the conservation area, a legacy of framework knitting and boot and shoe making. If one of those buildings is being refitted, its floor may carry paint or coatings that need stripping before anything new goes down. Where a coating is thick or the area is large, shot blasting and scarifying can be quicker than grinding.
Two cautions apply. Grinding takes down bumps; it cannot level a floor that dips or slopes across a room, and taking off too much can leave a screed thinner than its minimum depth. And the dust is hazardous: concrete, screed and tiles contain silica, so we grind only with extraction attached, seal doorways and protect the rooms next door.
We are contractors, not a hire shop, so we do not hire out grinders or sell tooling, and we do not lay resin or polished concrete.
How we price floor grinding in Earl Shilton
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 Earl Shilton
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 Earl Shilton
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 77.6 miles from Earl Shilton, which lies to the north-north-west. Postcodes here include LE9, and Hinckley (3.4 miles), Nuneaton (7.4 miles), Leicester (8.7 miles) and Bedworth (9.4 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
