Warehouse and trade unit floors around Gravesend's estates
A grinder spins diamond segments across the floor, and each pass shaves a little off the surface: ridges where bays meet, trowel marks, laitance, paint, sealers and the adhesive left when an old floor covering comes up. The aim is a clean, sound surface that a primer and the next layer can bond to.
Gravesend has several places where that work applies: the warehouse and hi-tech space at Lion Business Park, the smaller units of Canal Industrial Park and the Norfolk Road estate, and the trade and retail units on Imperial Business Estate. When a unit is re-let or a trade counter refitted, the old floor finish usually has to come off before anything new goes down.
We are a contractor and grinding is part of floor preparation. Our grinders and diamonds are never sold or hired out, and resin and polished concrete are not part of what we lay. If the new floor is to be resin, the specialist lays it onto the surface we leave.
Grinding is not always the quickest tool. Across a big warehouse, or where a coating is thick, shot blasting or scarifying can strip it faster, and our floor preparation page covers those methods. For new screed over a prepared unit floor, see commercial screeding.
Depth is watched throughout, since a screed must keep its minimum depth once the grinding is done.
Riverview Park extensions, garages and silica dust
Riverview Park, built in the 1960s, has post-war houses that suit kitchen and garden room extensions, and each new floor has to join the existing slab. Where the new floor finishes a fraction high, a ridge appears along the old back wall, and a thin LVT or vinyl will show it. Grinding takes that lip down cleanly.
It will not cure a floor that slopes or sags over a large area. Grinding only lowers high points, so a floor that is out across the whole room is ground where needed and then brought up with latex screed in Gravesend or a deeper compound, or rescreeded.
Garages can need grinding too, especially where one is being converted. Detached houses make up 11% of the town's homes, and a garage floor may carry oil stains, old paint and a dusty, weak surface. Grinding removes them before the next layer.
All of this produces dust. Ground concrete, screed and tile give off fine silica particles that are harmful to breathe. Every grinder we use runs with dust extraction attached, the work area is sealed off, and rooms next to it are protected. In flats and semis, where walls and floors are shared, we plan that protection with you before the work starts.
How we price floor grinding in Gravesend
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 Gravesend
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 Gravesend
Gravesend is about 44.2 miles east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including DA11 and DA12. The nearest towns to it are Northfleet (1 miles), Tilbury (1.3 miles), Grays (3.2 miles) and Swanscombe (3.7 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
