Trade units at Cordwallis and Furze Platt industrial estates
Workshops and trade units take a beating. When a unit at the Maidenhead Enterprise Centre, or on the Cordwallis or Furze Platt estate, changes hands, the slab can carry the marks of the last occupier: painted walkways, a peeling floor coating, oil, or the glue from an office corner that once had carpet tiles. A new tenant's floor finish cannot go on top of any of that.
Grinding removes it. The machine runs diamond segments across the slab, cutting the top off in thin layers until clean, sound concrete is exposed. On the way it takes down high spots, trowel ridges and the lips where neighbouring bays of the slab finish at slightly different heights. What it leaves is a surface that primers, compounds and adhesives can grip.
In the regenerated town centre, office conversions and retail units throw up a similar list. A former office may have layers of carpet tile adhesive, and a shop may have old vinyl stuck hard. These come off before floor levelling for Maidenhead units can bring the surface to the flatness the new floor needs.
Our part ends at preparation. Resin and polished concrete are not part of our work, and none of our grinders or tooling is for sale or hire. Where a resin floor is going into a workshop, we grind the slab and hand it over to the resin installer. Thick coatings across a large unit may suit shot blasting or scarifying instead, which come under floor preparation.
Lifted floors and extension joins in Maidenhead homes
At home, grinding tends to follow a stripping job. Take up old carpet or vinyl in a Maidenhead house built between 1973 and 1999, a group that makes up 23% of the town's homes, and the slab underneath may be coated in hard adhesive or black bitumen glue. Thin floors such as LVT need it gone before compound or fresh adhesive goes down.
Extensions are the second reason. Extension work comes from suburbs such as Cox Green, Furze Platt and Pinkneys Green, and where the new floor meets the old there can be a ridge, a small step or a strip of rough concrete along the old wall line. Grinding takes it down so a continuous floor can be laid.
Grinding has limits. It takes off local high points but cannot correct a room that falls or sags from one side to the other; that floor needs the peaks ground and the low ground filled, sometimes with latex screed in Maidenhead where only a few millimetres are needed. It also removes material, so a screed laid at its minimum depth is measured before grinding to make sure it is not left too thin.
Dust is controlled throughout. Grinding concrete, screed or tile gives off silica dust, which is harmful to breathe. Extraction is connected at the head every time, and we seal the work area with sheeting, protect the route in and vacuum before leaving. Marlow is covered too: see floor grinding in Marlow.
How we price floor grinding in Maidenhead
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 Maidenhead
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 Maidenhead
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 3.3 miles from Maidenhead, which lies to the west-south-west. Postcodes here include SL6, and Marlow (4.2 miles), Slough (5.6 miles), Windsor (5.6 miles) and Beaconsfield (6.9 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.