Unit and shop floors at Gillingham Business Park and Rainham
As the main employment area, Gillingham Business Park has the largest concentration of unit floors in the town, and a refit there often begins at floor level. Warehouse and office floors of any age tend to pick up layers: painted walkways, adhesive from old carpet tiles, sealer coats and ridges where one bay of concrete finished higher than the next. Grinding takes them back to a clean, flat base.
Each pass of the diamond heads shaves a little off the concrete. Paint, glue, trowel marks, laitance and raised areas go with it, and the open texture left behind gives a primer something to grip. What is left is sound concrete or screed, ready for the next layer.
Shops follow the same pattern on a smaller scale. A shop in the Rainham precinct, or one of the empty town centre shops the Love Gillingham campaign aims to fill, may have several old finishes stuck down one over another.
We stop at grinding and the layers that follow it. Resin and polished concrete are not part of our work, though a resin contractor can lay onto the surface we leave, and our machines and diamonds stay with our own team rather than being sold or hired.
On a very large floor or a thick coating, shot blasting or scarifying can be quicker, and our floor preparation service covers both. Where grinding exposes a slab that is cracked or breaking up, our concrete floor repair page explains how it is put right.
Extension joins and garages in Park Wood and Twydall
Houses in Park Wood, Twydall, Wigmore and Hempstead often gain an extension or a replacement conservatory, and each new room needs a floor that meets the house. When it does not quite, the result is a lip at the old outside wall, often a few millimetres. A diamond grinder takes that ridge down so a thin finish runs across without a line.
Grinding has limits, though. It cannot level a floor that sags or slopes over a wide area, and grinding deeper than needed can eat into the thickness a screed has to keep. Where the whole floor is out, we grind the high points and then bring the rest up with latex screed in Gillingham or another compound, or advise rescreeding.
Garages can need it too. They are more usual on detached houses, which make up 15% of Gillingham's homes, and their floors often carry oil, paint and dusty, weak concrete. Grinding takes that back before a conversion floor or a new coating goes on.
Dust is the serious part. Ground concrete and screed give off fine silica dust that is harmful to breathe, so every machine we use is coupled to an extractor. We seal off the work area and protect the rooms around it, which matters in a semi or terrace with a neighbour on the other side of the wall.
How we price floor grinding in Gillingham
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 Gillingham
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 Gillingham
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 54 miles from Gillingham, which lies to the east. Postcodes here include ME8 and ME7, and Chatham (2.5 miles), Rochester (3.5 miles), Snodland (6.5 miles) and Sittingbourne (7.1 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
