Grinding unit floors at White Horse Business Park
Two Trowbridge estates hold most of the warehouse and trade counter floors that grinding suits. Canal Road Industrial Estate is the main trade and manufacturing estate, north of the centre, and White Horse Business Park is south of it beside the A363. When a warehouse or trade counter on either is refitted, the slab usually needs taking back before anything new goes on.
A grinder works by spinning diamond segments against the slab, cutting the surface back a fraction at a time. It flattens the ridges and trowel lines left from the original pour, brings down lips where bays meet at a joint, and strips laitance, adhesive, line paint and thin coatings until the concrete beneath is clean and sound. That gives a primer or new layer something solid to grip.
What follows is set by the new use. Trade counters and offices are often primed and levelled straight after, and a heavily worn warehouse floor may need a hard wearing high strength screed on top. Where the client has a resin contractor lined up, we leave the slab ready for them.
It helps to know the limit early. Grinding removes local high spots, but it will not straighten a floor that slopes or dips across a bay. Those floors get their high spots ground and the low areas built up. For very large areas or thick old coatings, shot blasting or scarifying through our preparation and shot blasting service may be quicker.
Lifted floors and extensions on Paxcroft Mead and Studley Green
Paxcroft Mead and Studley Green are typical of the later housing in Trowbridge, where kitchen and garden room extensions are common and floors are lifted to add insulation. Both jobs can leave concrete that needs grinding.
Where an extension slab meets the original floor, the join is rarely perfect, and a lip of a few millimetres will show through LVT or crack a large tile. Grinding cuts it back so the two floors meet cleanly. After old carpet or vinyl comes up, the adhesive left on the concrete is ground off so new compound or flooring bonds to the slab rather than to old glue.
Garage conversions bring paint, sealer and patched repairs, which come off before insulation and screed go down. If the floor then needs smoothing, latex screed over the ground concrete gives thin finishes a flat base.
Dust needs controlling in a home. Concrete and screed contain silica, and grinding releases dust fine enough to breathe deep into the lungs, so our machines always run with extraction attached and adjoining rooms are sheeted off. We also grind only what is needed, because taking too much off a screed can leave it thinner than its minimum depth.
How we price floor grinding in Trowbridge
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 Trowbridge
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 Trowbridge
On the map, Trowbridge sits west-south-west of Slough, about 69.1 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including BA14 and BA15), next to Westbury (4.2 miles), Melksham (4.7 miles), Bath (7.9 miles) and Frome (7.9 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
