Grinding unit floors at Chaucer Industrial Business Park Estate
A unit floor on an industrial estate collects years of wear. Forklift tracks, spilled oil, painted walkways, glue from old floor tiles and patch repairs that stand proud all have to be dealt with before a new tenant fits out. On the Chaucer Industrial Business Park Estate, a unit fit-out usually starts with that clean-up.
Grinding uses rotating diamond heads that cut away the top of the slab in thin layers. Run across the floor, the machine takes down ridges, trowel marks and the lips where one concrete bay meets the next, and strips floor paint, glue and thin coatings. What is left is a clean, open, sound surface that primer and compound can bond to. Racking or machinery going in afterwards also benefits from a slab with no proud ridges or loose patches.
The next layer decides how far we go. A smoothing compound before carpet tiles or vinyl needs a clean, keyed slab. A new screed needs any weak surface taken off. Where a specialist is laying a resin system, we can prepare the floor to their brief, but we do not lay resin ourselves and we do not produce polished concrete.
For large areas or thick coatings, grinding is slow, and shot blasting or scarifying may suit better; the floor preparation service covers those methods. Cracked or broken slabs need concrete floor repair as well as grinding.
Garages, extensions and old adhesive in Polegate homes
Grinding is not only for commercial floors. In houses it tends to solve three problems.
The first is the join between old and new. Extensions are common across Polegate, and where a newer slab meets the original floor there can be a ridge or a lip. Grinding the high side down often brings the two close enough for a thin compound to finish the job.
The second is old adhesive. Lifting carpet or vinyl from a solid floor leaves glue behind, and some of it is too thick or soft to cover safely. Grinding takes it back to clean concrete.
The third is a garage being turned into a room, where an oily, painted slab has to be cleaned before insulation, membrane or screed go on.
There is a limit. Grinding removes local high spots, but a room that falls or sags from one side to the other stays that way, and cutting deep into a screed can take it below its minimum depth. In those cases we grind the high spots and then level or screed, as the Polegate floor levelling page explains.
Dust is controlled throughout. The silica in concrete, screed and tile becomes a fine, harmful dust once it is cut, so the grinder always runs with extraction attached and the rooms next door are sealed off. Machines and diamond tooling are not something we sell or hire out.
How we price floor grinding in Polegate
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 Polegate
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 Polegate
On the map, Polegate sits south-east of Slough, about 62.5 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including BN26), next to Hailsham (3 miles), Eastbourne (4.1 miles), Seaford (7.2 miles) and Newhaven (8.9 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.