Grinding unit floors on Uddens and East Dorset Trade Park
Industrial floors take punishment. Pallet trucks, racking and spills wear the surface unevenly, earlier tenants paint walkways and zones, and offices or trade counters added along the way leave adhesive behind when their flooring comes up. When a unit on the Uddens Trading Estate or East Dorset Trade Park changes use, the first floor job is usually getting back to clean concrete.
Diamond grinding does that. Heads fitted with diamond segments turn against the slab and cut the top away in thin layers. Paint lines, thin coatings, glue and the weak laitance on a newer screed come off, and so do ridges, trowel marks and the lips where slab bays meet. The surface is left open and sound, ready to take a primer.
What follows depends on the unit. A trade counter might go on to smoothing compound and new flooring; a warehouse aisle might need a hard-wearing high strength screed; a factory area might be handed to a resin contractor. We prepare for all three, but we do not lay resin ourselves, and polished concrete is not a service we provide.
Dust control comes first on every cut. Concrete and screed contain silica, and grinding produces respirable crystalline silica dust. Our grinders run only with extraction attached, and we screen the work area so production or a counter elsewhere in the building can continue.
Thick coatings over a large floor may come off faster by shot blasting or scarifying, and our floor preparation service covers those methods.
Extensions and garage conversions in Ferndown homes
Grinding is not only for industrial units. Ferndown's detached houses and bungalows bring their own reasons, and with 18% of the town's homes built since 2000, newer slabs sit alongside the post war stock.
Rear extensions come first. Where a new extension slab finishes slightly proud of the original floor, grinding the high side at the opening gives one level for a floor that runs straight through. Larger differences go to compound or screed.
Garage conversions are next. A garage slab often carries oil stains, paint or a sealer, all of which stop new layers bonding. Grinding clears them before a membrane, insulation and screed are added, and the garage conversion floor guide explains that build-up.
Then there are floors under old coverings. Lift carpet or vinyl in a 1970s or 1980s house and the adhesive underneath is often still there. Grinding it off leaves concrete that a primer and latex or compound can grip.
Grinding has a ceiling. It deals with local high spots, not a floor that falls or dips across the whole room, and too deep a cut on a screed can leave it below its minimum depth. Where that is the case we grind the highs and finish with compound or a new screed instead.
How we price floor grinding in Ferndown
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 Ferndown
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 Ferndown
Ferndown is about 74 miles south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including BH22, BH21 and BH24. The nearest towns to it are Wimborne Minster (4.3 miles), Ringwood (5.3 miles), Bournemouth (5.6 miles) and Verwood (5.6 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
