Preparing unit floors on The Causeway and West Station Yard
Grinding cuts the top of a slab away in very thin layers. Rotating heads set with diamond segments pass across the floor, wearing down whatever stands proud: a ridge where two concrete bays met, a trowel mark, a hump left by a poor pour. The same pass strips laitance, floor paint, thin coatings and the hard residue of old adhesive.
That is why it comes first when a unit changes use. Whether the unit is on The Causeway, at West Station Yard or on Wycke Hill Business Park, an older floor may carry years of paint and spills, while a newer slab may simply have a weak skin and lips between bays. In each case the aim is the same: a clean, open, sound concrete surface that the next material can bond to.
What follows depends on the tenant. It may be levelling compound and vinyl for an office, a new screed, carpet tiles, or a resin system laid by a specialist. We prepare the floor for all of these, but we do not lay resin or polished concrete ourselves, and we do not sell or hire out grinders or diamond tooling.
Grinding has a natural limit on size and thickness. Very large areas, or coatings thick enough to clog the diamonds, are often better handled by shot blasting or scarifying, which our floor preparation service covers. Where the slab itself is broken or spalled, the damaged concrete is repaired before any finish goes on. On a phased refit we work one bay at a time so the rest of the unit keeps trading.
Maldon extensions, garages and old flooring glue
Semi-detached houses make up 35% of Maldon's homes. When a house like that gains a rear extension, the new slab rarely meets the old floor perfectly at the doorway, and the difference often shows as a sharp lip a few millimetres high. Grinding takes that lip down so one run of flooring can cross the threshold.
Garages are another typical job. A garage floor that has been painted, or soaked with oil over the years, will not hold screed, adhesive or compound. Grinding back to clean concrete is the first step of a conversion, before insulation and screed go on; our garage floor screed guide shows the full build-up.
Then there is old glue. Lift the carpet or vinyl in a kitchen refit and the black or yellow residue below it is often too patchy for a new adhesive to trust. Grinding removes it.
Two cautions apply. Grinding takes off high spots, but it cannot correct a floor that slopes or sags over a large area; there we grind the peaks, then level the Maldon floor or lay a new screed. And taking too much off a screed can leave it thinner than its minimum depth. Because the dust from cut concrete and screed carries silica, the extractor runs whenever the grinder does, and the rooms next door are sealed off.
How we price floor grinding in Maldon
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 Maldon
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 Maldon
Maldon is about 58.6 miles east-north-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including CM9. The nearest towns to it are Witham (5 miles), South Woodham Ferrers (6.5 miles), Chelmsford (8.8 miles) and Rochford (10.4 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.