Grinding for Daedalus and Victualling Yard refits
A diamond grinder spins hardened diamond segments against the floor and cuts the top away in thin passes. On a commercial refit in Gosport it is usually the first trade in after the strip-out. When a unit at Daedalus, home to a hovercraft museum and marine related businesses, changes occupier, or redeveloped space at the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard is fitted out, the old floor tends to carry marks of its last use: adhesive from lifted carpet tiles, painted walkways, trowel ridges and lips where one concrete bay meets the next.
Grinding deals with all of those as one stage of preparation. High spots and ridges come down, paint and thin coatings are cut away, and the weak surface skin called laitance is removed so whatever follows bonds to sound concrete. Next might be levelling compound, a new screed, new flooring, or a resin system laid by another contractor. Our part ends with a clean, open surface ready for them.
Rowner Renewal brought a Tesco supermarket and smaller retail units, and at Royal Haslar restaurants and business premises sit beside the homes. A shop or restaurant fit-out in units like these follows the same pattern, with the extra need to keep dust away from neighbouring tenants.
Grinding is measured work. Take too much off a screed and it can end up thinner than its minimum depth, so we check thickness where we can and remove only what the next layer needs. For thick coatings or very large areas, shot blasting or scarifying may suit better, and both come under our floor preparation service.
Dust control and older Gosport house floors
Concrete, screed and tiles all contain silica, and grinding them produces respirable crystalline silica dust, fine enough to reach deep into the lungs. We grind only with extraction connected to the machine, and we seal doorways and protect adjoining rooms or units before starting. In an occupied Gosport house, or a shop with neighbours either side, that planning comes before the price.
At home, grinding usually follows lifted flooring. When old carpet or vinyl comes up in a Gosport house, it can leave patches of black or yellow adhesive that a new finish cannot go over. Ground back to sound concrete, the floor is ready for a thin latex skim before vinyl or for primer and compound.
Extensions bring a different need. Where the slab of a back extension meets the old house floor, a lip at the join is common, and grinding takes it down. If the whole floor slopes or dips across a wide area, though, grinding alone will not cure it: we grind the high spots, then level or screed.
Homes built between 2000 and 2014 account for 9% of the town, and even floors that young can carry trowel marks or old adhesive that must come off before a new finish.
How we price floor grinding in Gosport
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 Gosport
K & B Screeding’s own team, led by director Donatas Bardisevicius. Founded 2019, company 12298780.
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Concrete Floor Grinding from Slough to Gosport
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 55 miles from Gosport, which lies to the south-south-west. Postcodes here include PO12 and PO13, and Portsmouth (1.4 miles), Fareham (4.6 miles), Havant (7.4 miles) and Emsworth (8.9 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
