Grinding shop floors between tenants at Elmsleigh Shopping Centre
When a shop changes hands, the old flooring comes up and leaves its traces: patches of adhesive, painted areas, sealer and ridges where earlier repairs were trowelled in. A new tenant's vinyl, LVT or tiles cannot go over that, and neither can levelling compound, which needs a clean, open surface to bond to.
Diamond grinding provides it. Heads set with diamond segments rotate against the slab and shave away a thin layer on each pass, removing the contamination, trowel marks and weak laitance and bringing down local high spots and lips between bays. The surface left behind is clean and slightly textured, which is what primers are designed for.
A unit in either centre is usually handed between tenants on a short timetable. Grinding suits that, the dust is captured at source, and once the floor is clean the levelling compound for the unit can often follow straight after.
There is one thing grinding cannot do. A floor that slopes or dips across a wide area would need far too much concrete taken off, so the right approach is to grind the high points and then level or screed the rest. Damaged slabs with cracks or broken edges go through concrete floor repair first.
We are contractors, so we do not sell or hire grinders or diamond tooling, and we do not lay resin or polished concrete. If resin is being laid by another firm, we can prepare the slab to their specification.
Silica dust and home floors in Staines-upon-Thames
Concrete, screed and ceramic tiles all contain silica. Grinding them produces respirable crystalline silica dust, fine enough to reach deep into the lungs, so we grind only with an extraction unit connected to the machine. In an occupied house the room is sheeted off and nearby floors protected before we start.
At home, grinding usually means one of three jobs. On the inter-war and post-war semis, including the Kingston Road estates, rear extensions are common, and the new slab can sit slightly proud of the original floor; grinding the lip lets the flooring pass from old to new. Garage conversions are another, where paint, oil or an old coating comes off before the membrane and insulation go in. The last is old carpet or vinyl adhesive left on a concrete floor.
We keep an eye on depth throughout. Grinding too much from a screed can leave it below its minimum thickness, so we take off only what is needed.
For big areas or thick coatings, shot blasting or scarifying may be faster; see our floor preparation service. We cover concrete grinding in Ashford on the same terms.
How we price floor grinding in Staines-upon-Thames
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 Staines-upon-Thames
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 Staines-upon-Thames
Staines-upon-Thames is about 8.9 miles south-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including TW18. The nearest towns to it are Egham (1.6 miles), Ashford (2.2 miles), Chertsey (2.9 miles) and Sunbury-on-Thames (4.2 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.