Workshop and studio units around Albion Street, Southwick
Shoreham Port runs the Lady Bee Enterprise Centre near the lock gates, just off Albion Street, whose 14 units are let as offices, studios and workshops. Further along the street are refurbished business units, and the harbour industries lie south of Brighton Road. Each time a unit changes use, the floor has to suit the new occupier, and the old finish is usually the first thing in the way.
A workshop slab may be coated in floor paint that is flaking, marked by oil and scored by trolleys. An office or studio may have carpet tile adhesive spread across it. In both cases, the new covering, compound or screed needs to bond to sound concrete, not to an old film. Diamond grinding takes that film off in thin layers and cuts down raised joints and ridges at the same time.
Because these are working buildings, dust control is planned as carefully as the grinding. Concrete and screed give off respirable crystalline silica when cut, so we run grinders only with extraction attached, screen off the area being worked and protect stock or equipment elsewhere in the unit.
After grinding, the next step depends on the use. A studio may go straight to compound and LVT. A workshop that needs a hard-wearing floor may need a new commercial screed. Where an occupier wants resin or polished concrete, a specialist lays it; we prepare the slab for them and leave the finish to that trade.
Old adhesive and paint in Southwick houses
Only 3% of Southwick's homes were built since 2000, so most floors in the town are decades old and may have carried more than one covering. Lifting the latest can reveal traces of the others: black tarry adhesive, carpet glue, paint around the edges and patches of old repair.
Leaving that residue under a new floor is a gamble. Fresh adhesive or compound may grip the old layer, which then lets go. Grinding back to sound concrete removes the doubt, and the clean surface can be primed for levelling compound under LVT or a thin latex skim over the slab.
Rear extensions add a second task. Where the new floor meets the old semi at a slightly different height, grinding the high edge is often the simplest way to bring the two together.
Keep expectations clear, though. Grinding removes high points; it cannot correct a floor that dips or falls across a whole room, and cutting too deep could take a screed below the depth it needs. For whole-room problems, the high spots are ground and the floor built up again. We are a contracting team, so grinders and diamond tooling are not for sale or hire.
How we price floor grinding in Southwick
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 Southwick
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 Southwick
On the map, Southwick sits south-south-east of Slough, about 51.4 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including BN42), next to Shoreham-by-Sea (1.5 miles), Brighton and Hove (4.2 miles), Worthing (6 miles) and Burgess Hill (9.6 miles).
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