Preparing Dunsbury Park and Meridian Shopping floors
Units at Dunsbury Park, part of the Solent Freeport, run from 20,000 to 200,000 sq ft. When one of them changes hands or a new occupier fits out, the floor is rarely ready as it stands. Painted aisle markings may have to come off, old fixings and patch repairs can leave raised spots, and the next flooring or resin contractor needs a clean, open surface. Diamond grinding does that work, shaving the surface down a fraction at a time until paint, adhesive, thin coatings and trowel marks are gone.
The same method suits the town centre. A shop refit at Meridian Shopping or along pedestrianised West Street often starts with lifting old vinyl or carpet tiles, which leaves adhesive behind. Ground back to sound concrete, that floor can take a primer and compound, or a new finish laid directly.
Grinding also corrects the small faults that thin finishes expose. A ridge at a construction joint, a lip between two pours or a raised patch around an old repair comes down in a few passes, ready for levelling compound on Havant shop floors if the surface then needs smoothing.
We remove only what the next layer needs. On a screed, grinding too deep can leave it below its minimum depth, so depth is checked as we go. On a very large area, or where a thick coating has to come off, shot blasting or scarifying may be more efficient; see shot blasting and other preparation.
Silica dust and house floors around Havant
Every concrete or screed floor contains silica. Grinding it releases respirable crystalline silica dust, so our grinders run only with extraction attached, and we close off and protect the surrounding space before the first pass. In a shop that shares walls with others on West Street, or in a lived-in home, that protection is planned as part of the job.
Houses need grinding for smaller reasons. Lift the carpet or vinyl in a Havant post-war house and there may be black adhesive or old floor paint underneath. Neither suits a new finish, and grinding takes the floor back to bare concrete ready for latex screed under new vinyl or compound. Where a single storey extension has been added, the join between new slab and original floor can carry a lip, and grinding takes it down.
There is a limit worth knowing. Grinding works on local high spots. If a whole floor slopes towards one wall or dips in the middle, cutting it flat would take off far too much, so we grind the high points and then level or screed.
Homes built between 1973 and 1999 make up 9% of Havant's stock. They are newer than the post-war houses, but a change of flooring in one can uncover the same old glue.
How we price floor grinding in Havant
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 Havant
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 Havant
On the map, Havant sits south-south-west of Slough, about 49 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including PO9 and PO7), next to Emsworth (2.2 miles), Horndean (3.7 miles), Portsmouth (6.2 miles) and Gosport (7.4 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
