Stripping unit floors on the Cranborne Industrial Estate
Floors on the estate range from small light industrial units to suites inside multi-let blocks like Summit House. When one of them changes hands, what is on the floor tends to reflect every previous tenant: carpet tile glue in the offices, painted concrete in a workshop, marking lines in a store, and sometimes a thin coating worn through along the walkways. None of it makes a good base for the next finish.
Grinding strips it with diamond segments set into heads that spin across the floor, removing a thin layer at a time. Along with paint and glue, it takes off trowel marks, the ridges left where concrete bays were cast against each other, and the weak surface skin known as laitance. The result is clean, open concrete that a primer can soak into and an adhesive, compound or new screed can bond to. If a resin floor is planned, the resin contractor will specify the surface they need; we prepare it, and they lay it. Resin and polished concrete are not something we install.
On a large open floor or a thick coating, shot blasting or scarifying can be faster, and shot blasting is part of our shot blasting and floor preparation service. Where grinding uncovers cracks, holes or broken edges, concrete floor repair in older units is done before anything else goes down.
Extensions, garages and dust in Potters Bar homes
Extending a 1920s to 1960s semi usually means a new slab built up to meet an old floor. If the two finish a few millimetres apart, the step shows through any flooring run across the join, and grinding the high side down is often the cleanest fix. It works on local high spots only. A floor that slopes or dips across the room cannot be ground flat without cutting too deep, and on a screed that can leave it below its minimum thickness, so we pair grinding with levelling compound across the room or a new screed.
Detached houses make up 18% of homes in Potters Bar, and a garage being turned into a room may have paint, oil marks or sealer on its slab that need grinding off before the membrane and screed go in. Old carpet and vinyl adhesive on a ground floor are handled the same way.
Indoors, dust control comes first. Because concrete, screed and tiles all hold silica, grinding gives off fine respirable crystalline silica dust. We grind only with dust extraction, and we seal doorways and protect the rooms around the work. Grinders and diamond tooling are not something we sell or hire out; the work is done by our own team.
How we price floor grinding in Potters Bar
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 Potters Bar
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 Potters Bar
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 22.5 miles from Potters Bar, which lies to the east-north-east. Postcodes here include EN6, and Borehamwood (4.1 miles), Hatfield (5 miles), Enfield (5.6 miles) and Barnet (5.7 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.