Industrial and lab floors around Milton Creek
Warehouse and industrial floors near Milton Creek, Kemsley and Ridham need flat, hard-wearing surfaces, and when a unit changes hands its slab usually carries the last tenant's paint, line marking, sealer and patch repairs. A laboratory at Kent Science Park being refitted may need old sheet flooring adhesive removed before a new resilient floor. None of these surfaces makes a reliable base for a new layer.
Grinding solves that by taking the top of the slab off in thin passes with rotating diamond heads. It removes coatings and contamination, levels trowel marks and lips at bay joints, and leaves an open texture that primer can soak into. After grinding, the floor may get compound to SR1 for a lab floor, a new wearing screed through our commercial screed service, or a resin system from a specialist.
That last point is worth being clear about. K & B is a screeding contractor. We grind as preparation. Resin and polished concrete are left to specialists, and we have no grinders or diamond tooling for sale or rent. If a resin installer needs a particular surface profile, we can grind to their specification.
On a working site, the grinding can be phased so parts of the unit stay open. Large areas with thick coatings may suit shot blasting instead, while cracks and broken joints found during grinding go to concrete floor repair.
Extension joins and garages in Sittingbourne homes
Sittingbourne's large share of post-war semis means plenty of rear extensions, where a new slab and screed have to tie in with the old floor. Even with careful planning, the join can end up with a lip a few millimetres high, or the old floor proves slightly proud once the wall is knocked through. Grinding takes that lip down so the two floors meet in one plane before compound and flooring go over both.
Garages are the other common case. Detached houses make up 18% of the town's homes, and a garage being turned into a room usually has an oil stained or painted slab that has to be ground clean before insulation or a bonded screed goes on. Lifting old vinyl or carpet tiles in a hallway can also reveal adhesive stuck hard to the concrete, and grinding takes it back to a sound surface.
Grinding has a clear limit: it fixes local high spots, not a floor that slopes across a room. For that, high points are ground and the rest is filled with compound or screed. We measure screed depth before grinding, because taking too much off weakens it.
Dust control is not optional. Grinding concrete, screed and tile releases respirable crystalline silica, so every grinder we use is connected to extraction, doorways are sealed and lived-in rooms protected. About 7 miles away, we also offer concrete grinding in Faversham.
How we price floor grinding in Sittingbourne
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 Sittingbourne
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 Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is about 61.1 miles east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including ME10 and ME9. The nearest towns to it are Faversham (7 miles), Gillingham (7.1 miles), Chatham (9.6 miles) and Maidstone (10.4 miles).
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