Workshop floors on Flux's Lane and Bower Hill
Vehicle repair bays and workshops leave a floor with a history. Oil soaks into the surface, paint is spilled and walked in, thin floor coatings flake where tyres turn, and earlier patch repairs sit proud of the slab around them. Before any new finish goes on, all of that has to come off, because a new screed or compound bonds only as well as the surface beneath it.
Diamond grinding is the tool for the job. Segments on rotating heads shave the concrete in thin passes, cutting down high spots and the edges of old patches, removing paint, adhesive and weak laitance, and leaving the surface open and clean.
What goes on afterwards is up to the unit's use. A storage unit may need nothing more than a clean, sound floor. A workshop may get a new wearing layer, such as a high strength screed. An office or showroom fit-out usually takes levelling compound and a thin covering. A resin floor, if wanted, is laid by a resin contractor once we have finished, because K & B does not lay resin or polished concrete.
Slabs that are breaking up or deeply oil soaked may need more than grinding, and concrete floor repair deals with those first. For very large areas, shot blasting can be quicker, as our floor preparation page explains. We are a contractor rather than a hire shop, so grinders and diamond tooling are not for sale or hire.
Extension joins and old adhesive in Epping homes
In homes, grinding tends to be a smaller, more targeted job, and extensions are the usual reason. With only 14% of Epping's homes built since 2000, an extension here usually meets a floor that is decades older, and where the new slab joins it there is often a lip or a ridge. Grinding that down lets the two floors run into each other without a ramp under the new tiles, and a thin compound finishes the surface.
Lifted carpet and vinyl leave their own problems: black bitumen adhesive, foam backing stuck fast, or a painted concrete floor. Grinding cleans these off more thoroughly than scraping. In a garage being converted, it removes oil and the dusty top layer before insulation and screed go down.
Know the limits. Grinding removes high points but cannot fill hollows, so a floor that slopes needs levelling or screeding after the high spots come off. Over-grinding a screed can leave it below its minimum depth, which we check before starting.
Silica is the safety issue. Concrete, screed and tiles release fine respirable dust when ground, so our machines always run with extraction attached, doorways are sheeted and adjoining rooms protected while the household carries on around the work.
How we price floor grinding in Epping
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 Epping
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 Epping
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 34.5 miles from Epping, which lies to the east-north-east. Postcodes here include CM16, and Loughton (3.5 miles), Waltham Abbey (4.1 miles), Harlow (4.9 miles) and Chigwell (5.6 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
