Preparing Barton Park Industrial Estate floors for tenants
A warehouse slab collects a history. Line paint for aisles and loading bays, patches of old coating, glue from an office's carpet tiles and the odd raised repair can all sit on the surface. Before a new tenant's floor goes down they have to come off, because levelling compound, a bonded screed or a fresh coating is only as secure as the layer beneath it.
Diamond grinding takes the slab back to clean concrete. The machine carries rotating heads set with diamond segments, which shave the top of the floor away a thin layer at a time. Passes over the whole area strip paint and thin coatings, while extra passes along a joint remove the lip where one bay was finished higher than the next. The surface left behind is lightly textured, which gives primers and compounds a good key.
On a refurbished Barton Park unit, this preparation is what decides whether the new floor lasts.
We are the preparation contractor. If the tenant wants resin or polished concrete, a specialist lays it and we hand over a floor ready for them. Where the slab itself is cracked or crumbling at the joints, it needs concrete floor repair before grinding. Across big open areas with heavy coatings, shot blasting can be faster, and our floor preparation team can advise on that.
Extension joins and old glue in Bishopstoke and Fair Oak
In houses the job is smaller but no less useful. Extensions to post-war semis and detached houses are a typical project in Bishopstoke and Fair Oak, and where old and new floors meet, the two surfaces need to finish flush. When it finishes a few millimetres proud along the join, that edge is ground down so the two surfaces run together, and a levelling compound evens out whatever remains.
Lifting old carpet or vinyl can uncover a crust of adhesive or a painted floor. Homes built between 1945 and 1972 make up 16% of Eastleigh's stock, and on floors of that age the old glue usually has to go before latex or new tiles. Our page on latex screed in Eastleigh explains what happens next.
Grinding has a limit worth knowing. It flattens local high spots, but a floor that slopes or sags across a whole room cannot be ground true; it needs the high points taken off and then compound or screed.
Indoors, dust control comes first. Grinding concrete or screed releases silica, so we grind only with extraction running, and doorways, units and adjoining rooms are sheeted. For a nearby town, see floor grinding in Fareham.
How we price floor grinding in Eastleigh
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 Eastleigh
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 Eastleigh
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 49.6 miles from Eastleigh, which lies to the south-west. Postcodes here include SO50 and SO53, and Hedge End (4.4 miles), Southampton (5 miles), Romsey (6.5 miles) and Winchester (6.6 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.