Preparing ageing floors on Moons Moat and Washford units
A grinder carries rotating diamond heads that shave the top of a slab away in thin passes. On an older unit floor that does several jobs at once: it knocks off the lips where one concrete bay sits proud of the next, cuts back trowel marks and ridges, and strips floor paint, old adhesive and thin coatings left by a previous tenant. What remains is clean, sound concrete that the next layer can bond to.
That matters when a unit on Moons Moat, Washford Industrial Estate or Park Farm North and South changes hands or is refitted. Whatever goes down next, whether self levelling compound, a new topping or a resin system laid by another firm, needs a surface free of weak material and contamination. Grinding is the step before that. We are a screeding contractor, so we grind as part of preparing the floor; we do not lay resin or polished concrete, and we do not sell or hire grinders or diamond tooling.
There is a limit to what grinding can do. It brings down local high points, but it cannot flatten a floor that falls or dips across a whole bay. Taking the slab down until the low areas match would remove far too much, and on a screed it could leave the material thinner than its minimum depth. In that case we grind the high spots and then bring the floor up with levelling compound for Redditch floors or a new screed.
For large warehouse areas at Lakeside or Enfield, or very thick coatings, shot blasting or scarifying may be quicker, and our floor preparation service covers those methods.
Garages, extensions and lifted carpet in Redditch homes
Grinding is not only for industrial estates. Detached homes make up 26% of Redditch housing. Where a house has a garage, its floor may carry years of paint, oil staining or a peeling coating that has to come off before a conversion or a new finish.
Rear extensions on estates such as Matchborough, Winyates and Church Hill raise a different problem: the point where the new slab meets the old. A small step or ridge often forms along that line, and grinding it down is usually quicker and neater than building the rest of the floor up to match.
Then there is what turns up when an old carpet or vinyl is lifted. Thick black adhesive, hard patches of old screed and bits of tile glue all stop a new floor from sitting flat or bonding. Grinding cleans them back to the slab.
Dust is the part to take seriously. Concrete, screed and tiles contain silica, and grinding creates fine respirable crystalline silica dust that you do not want in a home or an occupied unit. We only grind with dust extraction connected, sheet off neighbouring rooms and keep doors closed while we work. Where the slab turns out to be cracked or broken rather than just rough, concrete floor repair comes first. The same grinding service is available in Warwick too.
How we price floor grinding in Redditch
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 Redditch
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 Redditch
Redditch is about 77.1 miles north-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including B97 and B98. The nearest towns to it are Solihull (10.1 miles), Stratford-upon-Avon (12.7 miles), Evesham (14.8 miles) and Warwick (15 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.