Unit refits on Hoddesdon Business Park floors
The park's Pindar Road campus, which takes in the New England Industrial Estate, Trident Industrial Estate and Optima Business Park, sits close to the A10 and Rye House station. When a unit there changes tenant, the floor usually has to be stripped back before anything new goes down. Line marking paint, a worn floor coating, carpet tile adhesive in an office area or a lip where two slab bays meet will all stop the next layer bonding or sitting flat.
Grinding deals with these by cutting the surface away in thin passes. The rotating heads carry diamond segments, and they take off ridges, trowel marks and laitance as well as paint and residue, leaving open, clean concrete that primer and adhesive can grip. Where a resin floor is planned by a specialist, they will normally want exactly that kind of open surface, and we can prepare it for them. Laying resin or polished concrete is not part of our work.
Large areas or thick coatings may be quicker by another route. Shot blasting or scarifying removes material faster across a big open warehouse, and shot blasting is part of our floor preparation and shot blasting service. Where the slab underneath turns out to be cracked or spalled, concrete floor repair comes before any new surface. For a production area that needs a harder wearing topping, a high strength screed can follow the grinding.
Grinding in Hoddesdon houses, garages and extensions
Grinding is not only for industrial floors. In a house it often comes in where a new extension slab meets the old floor and leaves a ridge across the doorway, or where a garage floor still carries paint and oil before a conversion. Detached houses make up 18% of Hoddesdon's homes, and lifting old carpet or vinyl from any concrete ground floor can leave hard adhesive that has to come off before a new finish.
There is a limit to what grinding fixes. It removes local high spots well, but it cannot correct a floor that slopes or dips across the whole room, because taking enough off to flatten it would mean cutting too deep. Grinding a screed too hard can also leave it thinner than its minimum depth. In those cases we grind the high points and then bring the floor flat with levelling compound for Hoddesdon floors or a new screed.
Dust is the other thing to plan for. Silica is present in concrete, screed and ceramic tiles, so cutting into them gives off fine respirable crystalline silica dust that is harmful to breathe. We only grind with dust extraction connected to the machine, and we sheet off doorways and adjoining rooms so the rest of the house or unit stays clean.
How we price floor grinding in Hoddesdon
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 Hoddesdon
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 Hoddesdon
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 31.4 miles from Hoddesdon, which lies to the east-north-east. Postcodes here include EN11, EN10 and CM19, and Hertford (3.8 miles), Ware (3.9 miles), Cheshunt (4.1 miles) and Harlow (4.7 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
