Preparing shop floors on East Street and Castle Street
A refit in one of Farnham's older commercial buildings often reveals several generations of flooring. Strip out the carpet tiles and there may be vinyl adhesive, a painted strip, ceramic tile glue where a kitchen once stood, and a concrete patch that sits proud of the rest. New flooring cannot go straight over that mix.
Diamond grinding takes it back to a clean, open surface. Heads set with industrial diamonds spin against the floor and cut the top away in thin layers, removing adhesive, paint and coatings along with the weak surface skin underneath. Lips and ridges where one patch meets another are ground down until the floor runs on without a step.
What grinding does not do is correct a floor that falls or dips across the whole unit. Many old buildings have floors that slope, and cutting deep enough to straighten them would weaken the slab or wear a screed below its minimum depth. The right approach is to grind the high spots and then pour compound for a level shop floor, or to lay a new screed where the fall is large.
On bigger areas or very thick coatings, grinding is not always the quickest tool; shot blasting and scarifying are covered under our floor preparation service.
The same preparation applies to other commercial floors in the town, such as the Farnham Maltings on Bridge Square. Timing matters in the town centre, so we agree working hours, access and where the extraction unit will stand before the job is fixed. Where a unit needs a whole new floor, see commercial screeding.
Grinding in Farnham homes, with the dust contained
At home, grinding usually comes up for one of three reasons. Carpet or vinyl has been lifted and old glue is left on the slab. A garage floor that was painted years ago is being turned into a room. Or a new extension screed finishes a few millimetres proud of the original floor, leaving a lip that would show through LVT or large tiles.
In each case the grinder removes only what is needed. The surface is checked as it goes, and on a screed we keep track of how much depth remains.
Dust is the serious part. Silica is present in concrete, screed and tiles alike, and grinding releases it as respirable crystalline silica dust, which is harmful to breathe and travels through a house. We grind only with dust extraction connected to the cutting head, sheet off doorways and vacuum the floor when the grinding is done.
Terraced houses make up 14% of Farnham's homes, and where there is no side access the grinder and extraction unit come through the front door, so the hall is protected on the way in.
From Upper Hale to Rowledge, a ground floor is ready afterwards for a thin latex skim before vinyl, a new screed or flooring laid straight on. Concrete floor grinding in Fleet is carried out the same way.
How we price floor grinding in Farnham
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 Farnham
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 Farnham
On the map, Farnham sits south-south-west of Slough, about 22.9 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including GU9 and GU10), next to Aldershot (2.9 miles), Fleet (4.9 miles), Farnborough (5.6 miles) and Frimley (7.4 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
