Grinding unit floors on Rockingham Road and Airfield Business Park
A floor that has carried one business for years is rarely ready for the next. When a unit on the 1960s Riverside and Rockingham Road industrial estate is re-let, the slab may carry layers of floor paint, patches of old tile adhesive, bolt holes from removed racking and ridges where repairs were trowelled in. None of that gives levelling compound or a new screed a sound surface to grip.
Grinding is how we strip it back. A machine with rotating diamond heads cuts the top of the slab away in thin layers. It takes off coatings, adhesive residue and the weak, dusty laitance that sits on top of many concrete floors, and it shaves down local high spots and trowel marks. The result is clean, open concrete that primer can soak into.
At Airfield Business Park, beside the Harborough Innovation Centre, fit-outs of the warehouse and hybrid office units can bring a different task. Where floor bays meet, a small lip can stand proud, and an office fit-out wanting carpet tiles or vinyl needs those edges taken down before anything is laid. Grinding them out and then pouring compound is quicker than starting a new floor.
What follows the grind is your choice. We can lay levelling compound or screed ourselves, or hand the prepared floor to the flooring contractor. If a resin system has been specified, we leave the surface ready for the resin installer, as resin and polished concrete are outside our work. Heavier industrial floors may suit commercial screeding once the slab has been prepared.
Garages and extensions in Market Harborough houses
Detached houses make up 35% of Market Harborough's homes, and where one has a garage, its concrete floor may sit under years of oil, paint and tyre marks. If the garage is becoming a room, or simply getting a new finish, grinding takes off the contaminated top layer so whatever follows bonds properly.
Extensions bring a second job. Where a new slab has been cast against an old floor, the join often has a ridge or a small step. Grinding can take down a lip of a few millimetres, after which compound smooths the transition. It cannot fix a floor that slopes or dips across the whole room, though. In that case we grind only the high points and then level or screed the rest, and our Market Harborough levelling service picks up from there.
Old adhesive is a third reason. Lifting carpet or vinyl in a house of the 1970s to 1990s often uncovers black or yellow glue that compound will not stick to, and grinding removes it cleanly.
Dust is taken seriously. Concrete, screed and tiles contain silica, and grinding them makes fine silica dust that can be breathed deep into the lungs. We grind only with extraction connected, sheet off doorways and keep adjoining rooms closed.
How we price floor grinding in Market Harborough
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 Market Harborough
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 Market Harborough
Market Harborough is about 66.6 miles north of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including LE16. The nearest towns to it are Desborough (5 miles), Corby (9.4 miles), Kettering (9.9 miles) and Lutterworth (11.8 miles).
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