Preparing unit floors at the Abbey Industrial Estate
A unit that has had several tenants carries the evidence on its floor: painted walkways, patches of glue where offices were stripped out, trowel ridges between concrete bays, and lips where a later slab was poured against an older one. None of that gives a new finish anything reliable to bond to, and grinding is how it comes off.
The machine carries diamond tooling on rotating heads and shaves the surface away in thin passes. It brings ridges and lips down to the floor around them, cuts through floor paint and thin coatings, and opens up the concrete so a primer can soak in. On a calcium sulphate screed it also removes the weak laitance that would otherwise sit between the screed and the flooring.
What follows depends on the unit. An office area might get levelling compound and carpet tiles; a workshop might need a new screed. Some tenants want a resin coating, which a specialist resin firm lays on the surface we have prepared, because resin and polished concrete are not part of our work. The same preparation applies along Budds Lane, at Greatbridge Business Park and the Frobisher Industrial Centre, when a unit there is refitted.
For a very large area or a thick coating, shot blasting or scarifying can be quicker than grinding, and our floor preparation service covers both. Where a slab has broken edges at the loading doors or holes from old fixings, concrete floor repair is done before the grinder goes over it.
Garages, extensions and lifted vinyl in Romsey homes
Grinding is not only for industrial floors. When carpet or vinyl comes up in a house, it often leaves a dark film of old adhesive, and some older adhesives react badly with modern primers. Grinding them off gives clean concrete to work on. A garage slab with oil stains or flaking paint gets the same treatment before it is screeded or levelled.
Extensions are the other household case. In Cupernham and Halterworth, rear extensions mean a new floor meeting an older concrete slab, and if the two finish at slightly different heights, the high side can be ground down so the step disappears under a thin finish.
There is a limit worth being clear about. Grinding removes local high spots; it cannot flatten a floor that falls across the whole room or sags in the middle. For that, we grind the peaks and then lay compound or a new screed. Taking too much off a screed can also leave it thinner than its minimum depth, so we measure before cutting.
Wherever the floor is, we grind with dust extraction fitted and seal off the rooms around it. The same preparation work is available in Eastleigh.
How we price floor grinding in Romsey
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 Romsey
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 Romsey
Romsey is about 52.7 miles south-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SO51 and SO16. The nearest towns to it are Totton (4.9 miles), Eastleigh (6.5 miles), Southampton (7.2 miles) and Winchester (9.6 miles).
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