Preparing unit floors on Hume Avenue and beyond
Industrial and logistics floors take the heaviest wear in Tilbury. The Port of Tilbury has more than 30 terminals, Tilbury2 handles RoRo traffic and construction materials, and Amazon's fulfilment centre at London Distribution Park is one of the largest in the country. Smaller industrial units on Hume Avenue sit nearby. When a unit changes hands or a floor is due for a new surface, the slab often carries old line paint, worn coatings, adhesive from offices fitted inside the building and lips where pour bays meet.
A diamond grinder works through that in thin passes. Rotating diamond segments cut the surface back to sound concrete, taking down ridges and trowel marks and removing laitance, so a new screed, levelling compound or adhesive can bond. Where a resin floor is planned, the resin installer is another firm; we prepare the slab to the surface texture they specify and leave the coating to them.
Grinding has limits that are worth knowing before work is priced. It does not fix a slab that falls across a whole bay; the high spots are ground and the low areas built up with compound or screed. It is slow on thick coatings or very large areas, where shot blasting or scarifying is quicker, as set out under floor preparation. And broken arrises, spalled patches or cracked slabs need concrete floor repair before any surface work.
We neither sell nor hire out grinders or diamond tooling. The machine comes with our crew, who can also lay the compound or screed that follows.
Grinding in Tilbury homes without the dust
In Tilbury homes, grinding tends to be small and specific. A typical case is a kitchen floor in a terraced or ex-council house: once the old vinyl comes up, the concrete underneath carries a crust of adhesive that new compound will not trust. Grinding strips it back to bare, sound concrete.
Small rear extensions are the other case. Where the new slab or screed finishes a touch higher than the house floor, a grinder takes the lip down so one run of flooring can cross both. If the gap is the other way round, with the extension low, the fix is building up, not grinding.
Silica is the reason we never grind dry. Concrete, screed and old tiles release respirable crystalline silica dust when cut, so the grinder is always connected to an extraction unit. In a terraced house with no back access, the extractor stays in the room being ground, doorways are sheeted, and the hall is protected where the leads run.
One caution applies to every floor: over-grinding a screed can take it below the depth it was designed to have. For a garage being turned into a room, our guide to converting a garage floor explains the build-up after grinding.
How we price floor grinding in Tilbury
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 Tilbury
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 Tilbury
Tilbury is about 43.8 miles east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including RM18. The nearest towns to it are Gravesend (1.3 miles), Northfleet (1.7 miles), Grays (2 miles) and Swanscombe (3.5 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
