Preparing old slabs on the Marston Road Trading Estate
Manufacturing and light industry shaped the Marston Road Trading Estate in the years after the Second World War. A factory floor of that age has usually been painted, sealed, patched or marked out more than once, and a new occupier needs those layers gone before anything is laid. A diamond grinder cuts through floor paint and thin coatings and leaves bare concrete with an open texture.
Where an old slab is kept, a bonded screed is one way to give it a new surface. A bonded layer depends entirely on gripping the slab beneath, so laitance, dust and contamination all have to come off. Grinding does that on smaller or more detailed areas; for a large factory floor or a thick coating, shot blasting is often quicker, and both fall under our floor preparation service. The topping itself is explained on our bonded screed page.
Grinding also deals with lips where old bays meet, cracked edges that have lifted and trowel ridges left from the original pour. Taking those down stops racking from rocking and thin flooring from wearing through on the high points.
We are a contractor with our own operators and machines. Our grinders and diamond tooling are not for sale or hire, and resin or polished concrete finishes are outside what we lay. If another firm is laying a resin system, we can prepare the floor to its installer's specification.
Saxonvale fit-outs, garages and Frome extensions
Shops and a cultural quarter are planned as part of the Saxonvale regeneration. A retail fit-out on a fresh slab still runs to a deadline, and even a new floor can carry ridges or laitance that need grinding before compound and flooring.
At home the jobs are smaller but similar. Detached houses make up 21% of Frome's homes. Where a garage on any house is being converted, its slab may carry oil, paint or an old sealer, and grinding cleans that off before the new floor is built up.
Extensions bring the join between new and old. Around Adderwell, where most of the town's newer estates stand, an extension floor is normally set to match the existing level, and grinding down a raised edge helps the two meet cleanly before levelling.
Grinding cannot fix a floor that slopes or sags right across a room. Taking enough off to flatten it would remove too much and could thin a screed below its designed depth. Instead, high spots are ground and the rest is brought up with compound or new screed.
Dust control is part of every job. Concrete and screed contain silica, and grinding releases fine respirable dust, so our grinders always run with extraction and adjoining rooms are sheeted off.
How we price floor grinding in Frome
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 Frome
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 Frome
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 75.4 miles from Frome, which lies to the west-south-west. Postcodes here include BA11, and Westbury (6.3 miles), Warminster (6.4 miles), Trowbridge (7.9 miles) and Bath (10.6 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
