Floor preparation for Calleva Park refits
Calleva Park dates from 1989, and its offices, workshops and warehouse units are spread across 25 buildings. Floors in buildings of that age are likely to have been through more than one fit-out, and each tenant leaves something behind: carpet tile adhesive in the offices, painted lines or coatings in the workshops, fixings and patches where benches or racking once stood.
Before a new floor goes down, those layers come off. Our grinders carry rotating diamond heads that cut the surface back in thin layers, taking off paint, thin coatings, adhesive residue, laitance and trowel marks, and bringing ridges and lips at bay joints down level with the floor around them. What is left is clean, sound concrete or screed that primer can bite into.
Then the fit-out carries on. Offices usually move on to levelling compound and carpet tiles or vinyl. A workshop might need repairs at doorways, which our concrete floor repair work covers, or a new screed. If a tenant wants a resin finish, a resin specialist lays it on the surface we have prepared; resin and polished concrete sit outside our work.
Thick coatings over large warehouse floors can be quicker to remove by shot blasting or scarifying, and we will say when one of those suits better. When a shop on Mulfords Hill or Bishopswood Road is refitted, its floor can be ground back in the same way, with the work planned around opening hours so trading carries on.
Garages and extension joins in Tadley houses
Converting a Tadley garage usually means building the floor up with insulation and new screed until it meets the house level. Before that build-up starts, the old garage slab should be clean. Oil stains, flaking paint and loose dust can stop a membrane, a bonded screed or a primer from doing its job, and grinding takes them back to sound concrete.
A single storey rear extension on a post-war semi or detached house brings a different task. The new floor and the old one rarely finish at exactly the same height. Where the difference is a lip or a ridge along the join, grinding the high side brings it down so a thin finish does not show it.
Grinding has limits worth knowing before you book. It cuts off local high points but does not straighten a floor that falls across the room or dips in the middle. For those, we grind the peaks and then lay compound or a new screed; the Tadley floor levelling page explains that next step. Grinding a screed too hard can also leave it below its minimum depth, so we check thickness first.
In a lived-in house, dust control comes first. Concrete and screed contain silica, so every machine runs with extraction, and doors to other rooms are sealed. The layers in a converted garage floor are set out in our garage floor screed guide.
How we price floor grinding in Tadley
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 Tadley
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 Tadley
On the map, Tadley sits west-south-west of Slough, about 24.9 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including RG26), next to Thatcham (5.7 miles), Basingstoke (6.7 miles), Newbury (8.1 miles) and Reading (10.1 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
