Workshop and unit floors around Eddington Business Park
Commercial units change hands, and every new occupier inherits the old floor. A unit at Eddington Business Park, on the former Eddington Farm site, might come with painted concrete, glue left by carpet tiles, or a ridge where a partition used to stand. The industrial estates on the edge of Herne Bay, where firms make kitchen furniture and factory machinery, have workshop slabs that can carry worn coatings, fixings and lips left by removed equipment.
None of that should sit under a new finish. A grinder carries rotating diamond heads that cut the top of the slab away in thin passes, removing paint, thin coatings, adhesive residue and trowel marks and taking ridges and lips between bays back down. The result is open, clean concrete that primers and compounds can grip.
If the new occupier wants a resin floor, a resin specialist lays it after we have finished, as we do not install resin or polished concrete ourselves. Our part ends with a prepared surface, and when the unit then needs bringing flat for carpet tiles or vinyl, the next step is levelling a Herne Bay unit floor.
For a very large area, or a coating too thick to grind economically, shot blasting or scarifying can be the faster method, and both come under our floor preparation work. We say which method fits once we have the floor size and a description of what is on it. Once the commercial and community buildings at Strode Farm are built, their floors may need the same preparation before finishes go down.
Extensions, garages and lifted carpet in Herne Bay homes
Grinding is useful in houses as well as units. Extensions are the usual reason. Where a new slab meets the original floor, a lip can run along the line of the old back wall, and a long run of tiles or LVT would show it. Grinding takes the high side down so the join can be skimmed and the flooring carried straight through. Semi-detached houses, 22% of Herne Bay's homes, are a typical place for that kind of rear extension.
Lifting old carpet or vinyl is another. Underneath there is usually hardened adhesive, sometimes black and brittle, sometimes still tacky. New adhesive and compound will not bond reliably to it, so it is ground back to sound concrete, after which latex screed for Herne Bay floors can give a new sheet finish its smooth base.
Garages being turned into rooms often have oil stains, paint or a dusty, weak top. Grinding opens the surface so the new build-up holds.
There are limits. Grinding removes local high spots; it does not correct a floor that falls or sags across the whole room, which needs the high spots ground and then levelling or a new screed. Taking too much off a screed can leave it thinner than its minimum depth, so we measure first.
Dust needs controlling as well. Silica is present in concrete, screed and tile, and grinding releases it as fine dust you should not breathe. We grind only with extraction connected and seal off the rooms next door.
How we price floor grinding in Herne Bay
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 Herne Bay
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 Herne Bay
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 77.3 miles from Herne Bay, which lies to the east. Postcodes here include CT6, and Whitstable (4.5 miles), Canterbury (6.7 miles), Faversham (10.9 miles) and Sittingbourne (17 miles) are close by.
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