Grinding unit floors on Enfield trading estates
The Lea Valley in the east of Enfield has a long manufacturing history, which includes the Royal Small Arms Factory. Today the borough has a spread of warehouse and trade units: the Great Cambridge Industrial Estate, Innova Business Park close to Waltham Cross, Brimsdown Industrial Estate with Riverwalk Business Park and its business centres, and the Trafalgar and Centenary Trading Estates beside it. When a unit is refitted, the floor left by the last occupier is rarely ready for the next.
Typical faults are painted aisle lines, patches of old coating, tile or carpet adhesive in the office corner, and lips where one concrete bay sits a little higher than the next. A grinder with diamond segments shaves the surface a fraction at a time, clearing each of those and leaving open, clean concrete. A levelling compound, a wearing screed or a resin system applied by another firm can then bond to it properly.
Grinding deals with local faults. It takes down a ridge or a raised bay edge, but it cannot correct a unit floor that slopes or sags across its width. Where that is the problem, we grind the high spots and then level with compound or lay a new screed. Depth is watched too. A screed has a minimum thickness, and over-grinding can take it below that, so we measure before taking much off.
On a very big floor, or under a heavy coating, shot blasting or scarifying may suit better, and both sit within our floor preparation service. If a unit needs a full new wearing layer afterwards, see screeding for commercial premises.
Garages, extensions and old glue in Enfield homes
Grinding is not only for industrial floors. In a house it is usually a small job with a clear purpose.
Extensions are the common one. Where a new slab or screed meets the original floor, the join can leave a raised edge or a ragged strip of old screed. Grinding that edge back gives a clean line for compound to cross, and our Enfield floor levelling page explains how the two surfaces are then brought into one plane.
Lifting old carpet or vinyl in a hall or kitchen often uncovers black bitumen adhesive or patchy glue. Thin, sound residue can sometimes stay, but thick or loose adhesive has to come off, and grinding does that quickly.
Garages are the third. Oil stains, floor paint and a dusty, weak surface all stop a new screed or compound from bonding, so a garage being turned into a room may need grinding before anything else goes down.
Dust is the part people underestimate. Cutting into concrete or tiles throws up fine silica dust that can lodge deep in the lungs. Our grinders always run with an extractor attached, and we seal doorways and protect neighbouring rooms.
13% of Enfield's homes were built between 1973 and 1999, and floors of that generation may have had several finishes glued down and lifted since.
How we price floor grinding in Enfield
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 Enfield
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 Enfield
On the map, Enfield sits east-north-east of Slough, about 25.5 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including EN2, N22, EN3 and EN1), next to Waltham Cross (3.3 miles), Cheshunt (4.1 miles), Haringey (4.5 miles) and Waltham Forest (5 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.