Preparing unit floors at Castledown Business Park
Next door to Tidworth, Castledown Business Park occupies part of the old Army depot in Ludgershall, and its industrial and trade units need their floors put right when an occupier moves out and another moves in. An industrial unit handed over after years of use can carry the marks: tyre and pallet scuffs, painted walkways, patches of old coating and a dusty skin on the original concrete.
A concrete grinder deals with that by passing rotating diamond heads over the slab and shaving it down in thin layers. Ridges and trowel marks are cut flat, lips between pour bays come down to meet each other, and coatings, adhesive and laitance are removed until sound concrete is exposed. Extraction runs throughout, because cutting concrete releases silica dust that must not be breathed in or left to settle over a working site.
The ground surface is then ready for whatever the new occupier wants on it. We can carry on with primer and compound for a flat finish, or hand over a clean slab to a resin or flooring contractor working for the client.
Grinding has one firm limit. It removes high spots, but it cannot correct a floor that slopes or sags across a wide area, and trying to would cut far too deep. In that case the bumps are ground and the low areas built up. Broken or crumbling sections are dealt with through repairs to the concrete slab before anything else, and on very large floors shot blasting through our floor preparation service may be the faster option.
Garages and lifted floors in Tidworth homes
In houses the areas are smaller but the reasons for grinding are similar. When carpet or vinyl is lifted from an older solid floor, the adhesive left behind is often too thick or too varied for a new finish. Grinding takes it back to clean concrete in one pass rather than days of scraping.
The post-war semis and terraces in Tidworth are the homes owners extend, re-insulate and relay, and an extension slab rarely lands flush with the original floor. A raised edge of a few millimetres at the join can be ground down so LVT or tiles run straight across.
Garages are the other common case. Detached houses make up 14% of Tidworth's homes, and whatever the house type, a garage slab being turned into a room may carry paint, sealant or rough repairs that must come off before insulation and screed.
Inside a lived-in house, dust control is the priority. Our grinders run with extraction attached, doorways are sheeted and the rest of the home is protected. We also keep an eye on depth, because grinding a screed too far can leave it thinner than it should be.
How we price floor grinding in Tidworth
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 Tidworth
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 Tidworth
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 48.4 miles from Tidworth, which lies to the west-south-west. Postcodes here include SP9 and SP11, and Amesbury (7 miles), Andover (8.4 miles), Salisbury (13.1 miles) and Devizes (16.2 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.