Grinding unit floors in Horley's business parks
Horley has an engineering past, from Wade Engineering building superchargers here between 1947 and 1955 to Matbro and its telescopic handlers. Today its business parks hold offices, warehouses and trade units, and each change of tenant tends to leave a floor that is not fit for the next finish.
The usual leftovers are carpet tile adhesive, painted lines and floor paint in a trade unit, thin coatings that have started to peel, and lips where one concrete bay sits a few millimetres proud of the next. Diamond heads spinning across the floor shave the surface back a fraction at a time, taking all of that off and exposing clean, sound concrete that primers and compounds can grip.
Grinding has limits. It takes down local high spots and ridges, but it cannot correct a floor that slopes or dips across a large area. In that case we grind the high points and then level or screed the rest; levelling compound for office refits is the usual next step before carpet tiles or vinyl.
On large warehouse floors, or where a coating is thick, shot blasting or scarifying can be quicker than grinding. Both come under our floor preparation service. If grinding opens up cracked or broken concrete, that gets repaired before anything else goes down.
We grind as the contractor on your job. The machines stay with our team, since grinders and diamond tooling are not something we sell or hire out. Resin and polished concrete are outside our work too. If a resin system is going down by another firm, we can leave the slab clean and open for them to apply it.
Garages and extension joins in Horley houses
Grinding is not only a commercial job. Extensions and garage conversions are typical work in Horley's semis built from the 1950s to the 1990s, and both leave floors with rough spots.
Where a new extension slab meets the original house, the two rarely finish at exactly the same height. A lip of a few millimetres along the old back wall can be ground down so a levelling coat or new flooring runs across without a ridge. Garage floors carry oil stains, paint and tyre marks that stop a primer from bonding, and grinding takes the contaminated skin off. A garage slab that falls towards the door needs a screed to bring it level, though: grinding cannot lift the low end.
When carpet or vinyl comes up in a living room or hall, old glue and underlay residue are usually left behind. Thin, hard residue grinds off quickly, ready for a latex coat over the old base or a new finish.
Dust is the hazard. Silica is present in concrete, screed and tiles, and grinding turns it into fine dust that is harmful to breathe. We grind only with dust extraction connected, seal doorways and protect the rest of the house. We also watch the depth: grinding too far into a screed can leave it thinner than its minimum. For the same service a short way north, see floor grinding in Redhill.
How we price floor grinding in Horley
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 Horley
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 Horley
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 32.5 miles from Horley, which lies to the south-east. Postcodes here include RH6, and Crawley (4.1 miles), Redhill (4.8 miles), Reigate (4.9 miles) and East Grinstead (7.5 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
