Warehouse and office floors at Kettering Business Park
Buccleuch Property's park north of the town centre puts offices and a hotel alongside its big distribution sheds, and each type of building needs grinding for different reasons.
In a warehouse, the usual targets are the lips where one bay of slab meets the next, ridges and trowel marks left from the original pour, and old line marking or floor paint. Racking aisles and turning areas are judged on flatness, so local high spots are taken down with diamond heads cutting a thin layer at a time. When a tenant changes, old coatings may have to come off before a new finish is applied, and grinding gives a clean, open surface for that finish to grip. We do not lay resin or polished concrete ourselves; we prepare the floor for whoever does.
Offices on the park need a lighter touch. When carpet tiles come up, the base is often spotted with old adhesive and patches of paint, and grinding removes them before levelling compound goes down for LVT or vinyl.
Grinding has a hard limit. It deals with local high points and surface material, not a floor that dips or slopes over a long distance. In that case we grind the humps and then level the floor, or recommend a high strength screed where a new topping is needed. Taking too much off a screed can leave it below its minimum depth, so depths are checked first. Where the concrete itself is breaking up, concrete floor repair is needed as well.
Extensions, garages and refits across Kettering homes
At home, grinding is a smaller but similar job. Semi-detached houses are 35% of Kettering's homes, and the town's post-war and later semis are where garage conversions and rear extensions tend to come up.
Where a new extension slab meets the original floor, a lip at the join is common, and grinding takes it down so one surface can run through. A garage being converted usually has years of oil, paint or a worn coating on its slab, which must be ground off before it is insulated, screeded or levelled. And when old vinyl or carpet is lifted in a refit, the hard glue and paint left behind are ground away before a latex smoothing coat or compound goes down.
Dust is the main risk inside a house. Every slab, screed and tile holds silica, and cutting into it releases a fine, breathable silica dust that harms the lungs. Our team grinds only with dust extraction fitted, sheets off doorways and protects the way in, so the rest of the home stays usable.
For very large areas or thick coatings, shot blasting or scarifying may be quicker, and both sit under our floor preparation service. Our grinders and diamonds stay with our team; we are not a hire or sales outlet.
How we price floor grinding in Kettering
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 Kettering
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 Kettering
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 60.1 miles from Kettering, which lies to the north. Postcodes here include NN16, NN15 and NN14, and Burton Latimer (3.3 miles), Desborough (4.9 miles), Corby (6.2 miles) and Wellingborough (6.9 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
