Grinding for Earls Court and King's Road projects
At Earls Court, the old exhibition centre land is to become around 4,000 homes, so construction there will run for years. On any large new build, floors laid in bays can leave an edge a few millimetres proud where two bays meet. Ridges and trowel marks show up too, and each one would telegraph through thin vinyl or LVT. Grinding takes those down in a few controlled passes so the flooring trade starts on a true surface rather than packing out the high points with adhesive, and it removes the weak top skin of a new slab before levelling compound or adhesive goes on.
Fit outs are the other source of grinding work. Restaurants and shops on the King's Road and Kensington High Street are fitted out afresh as tenants change, and each strip-out leaves glue, paint or tile adhesive on the slab. A diamond grinder cuts through those in thin passes until bare concrete shows, and the unit can then be levelled for its new floor.
We stop at preparation. Resin and polished concrete are left to specialists, and we have no grinders or diamond tooling for sale or rent. If a resin contractor follows, we grind to the surface profile they ask for. For very large areas or heavy coatings, shot blasting or scarifying can be faster; our floor preparation service covers both.
Grinding 1970s flats on the World's End Estate
Alongside its period townhouses, the borough has council estates of the 1970s, including the World's End Estate at the western end of the King's Road and Trellick Tower in the north. Any flat that has had several floor coverings over the decades can hide a mixed surface. When the old vinyl or carpet comes up, what remains may be a layer of adhesive and patches of paint or filler.
Grinding clears that residue back to sound concrete or screed, so the new floor bonds to the base and not to old glue. Before starting, we check the depth of any screed, because grinding too much from a thin one can take it below its minimum depth.
Silica is the main hazard. Concrete, screed and tiles all contain it, and grinding produces fine dust that can be breathed in. We grind only with extraction attached to the machine, seal doorways, and cover landings and lifts in shared blocks.
Grinding has a limit: it takes off high spots, but a floor that runs downhill or sags across a room stays that way. Then the high points are ground and the floor is finished with self levelling compound after grinding. For the neighbouring borough, see concrete floor grinding in Hammersmith and Fulham.
How we price floor grinding in Kensington and Chelsea
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 Kensington and Chelsea
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 Kensington and Chelsea
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 19.6 miles from Kensington and Chelsea, which lies to the east. Postcodes here include SW7, SW3, SW5 and W10, and Hammersmith and Fulham (1.2 miles), Westminster (1.6 miles), Camden (3.4 miles) and Wandsworth (3.8 miles) are close by.
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