Grinding workshop floors off Chelmsford Road and the B1008
Scale varies between the two. At Station Road Industrial Estate the floors belong to eight modest workshops in a single terrace, each with a loading door. Oak Industrial Park, by contrast, holds warehouse and production space with mezzanines and upstairs offices. A change of use at either usually starts with the floor.
Workshop slabs collect oil, paint spills and old floor coatings, and a production floor may carry an epoxy layer that is wearing through in the busy areas. Offices upstairs may hold carpet tile adhesive. A diamond grinder takes all of these off in thin passes, along with the weak top skin on some slabs and any ridges where one concrete bay meets another.
The point is to leave bare, open concrete that the next layer can bond to. That might be compound before vinyl in an office, a hard wearing high strength screed in a workshop bay, or a resin finish put down by a specialist. We do the preparation only: we do not lay resin or polish concrete.
For a large open warehouse floor, grinding is not always the quickest method. Shot blasting or scarifying strips a big area or a thick coating faster, and shot blasting is part of our floor preparation and shot blasting service. We look at the floor and the coating before choosing.
Oak Industrial Park sits close to the A120, and a written price for either site follows a visit to the unit.
Grinding new slab joins and garages near Stortford Road
A rear extension or knock-through on the Stortford Road and Woodlands Park estates leaves fresh concrete butting up to the original floor, and the two seldom meet perfectly. A small lip at the join shows through LVT or large tiles, and grinding it off is usually quicker and thinner than building the whole room up around it.
Converting a garage means preparing a slab marked by oil and paint before anything is laid, and a grinder cleans that back to sound concrete.
Lifting an old carpet or vinyl floor in any house usually leaves glue. Thin residue can sometimes stay under a suitable primer; thick or soft adhesive is ground off.
Know the limits before booking. Grinding removes high spots and coatings but cannot correct a floor that slopes or dips across the room; for that, the high points are ground and the floor then levelled. Over-grinding a screed can also leave it thinner than its minimum depth.
Dust is controlled. Concrete and screed contain silica, so we grind only with extraction and seal off the rooms next door. A smooth finish can then follow, such as a latex screed for vinyl or lino.
How we price floor grinding in Great Dunmow
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 Great Dunmow
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 Great Dunmow
On the map, Great Dunmow sits east-north-east of Slough, about 49.3 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CM6), next to Braintree (8.1 miles), Bishop's Stortford (8.7 miles), Sawbridgeworth (10 miles) and Chelmsford (10.4 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.