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Concrete Floor Grinding · Warwickshire

Concrete Floor Grinding Contractors in Warwick

K & B grinds concrete and screed floors in Warwick with diamond heads and dust extraction, removing raised edges, bumps, old glue, painted lines and worn coatings. Our own team does it as preparation, so the floor is ready for compound, a screed, another firm's resin or the flooring fitter. Offices, workshops and warehouses on the town's business estates often need it before a refit.

Unit floors at Tachbrook Park, Heathcote and Wedgnock

Workshops and warehouses build up layers on their floors over the years: line marking paint, spilled adhesive, thin coatings worn through in the aisles, and the weak dusty skin called laitance on top of the original concrete. Between bays there are often ridges or lips where one pour met the next.

None of that is a good base for a new floor. Paint and coatings stop a primer reaching the concrete, and a lip of a few millimetres shows straight through LVT or a thin resin. Diamond grinding solves it by cutting the surface back in shallow passes until the concrete underneath is clean and sound.

In Warwick, that covers workshops and warehouses on the southern estates at Tachbrook Park and Heathcote, as well as Wedgnock. Office refits, whether at Warwick Technology Park or the Warwick Gates business park, bring the same need when old carpet tiles come up and leave their adhesive behind.

Resin and polished concrete are not part of our work. If a resin floor is planned, we prepare the slab and the resin contractor follows. If the unit is getting new screed or compound, our crew can continue with that, and heavier floors fall under commercial screeding.

Dust control is not optional on these sites. Grinding concrete releases respirable crystalline silica, so every machine runs with extraction and the work area is sealed from the rest of the building.

Extensions and garages in Warwick homes

On the domestic side, grinding solves small, specific problems. A rear extension on a house built between 2000 and 2014, which covers 17% of Warwick's homes, can leave a lip where the new slab meets the old. Grinding brings the high side down so the new floor runs through the doorway in one plane.

It will not rescue a floor that falls or dips over several metres. Removing enough material to fix that would take too much, and on a screed could cut it below its minimum depth. Grind the high spots, then level the low areas with compound or screed; our floor levelling in Warwick page covers that second stage.

Garages being converted are the other common case. Oil, paint and a crumbly top layer are ground off before a membrane, insulation and screed go down. For floors where the concrete itself is cracked or broken, concrete floor repair comes before grinding.

Where a coating is thick or the area is very large, shot blasting or scarifying can be quicker than grinding. Both are part of our floor preparation service, and we will say which suits the floor before pricing.

How we price floor grinding in Warwick

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 Warwick

Floor preparation with boards and screed hose before a pour
Floor preparation with boards and screed hose before a pour.

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 Warwick

On the map, Warwick sits north-west of Slough, about 65.8 miles from our base in a straight line (postcodes including CV34), next to Royal Leamington Spa (2.3 miles), Kenilworth (4.1 miles), Stratford-upon-Avon (8 miles) and Coventry (9.3 miles).

More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.

FAQs

Concrete Floor Grinding in Warwick: your questions

How much does grinding take off a concrete floor?

Usually very little, just enough to remove the high spots, laitance or coating. Diamond grinding cuts in thin layers, so the depth can be controlled. On a Warwick screed, that control matters, because taking off too much can leave it below its minimum thickness. Larger corrections are made by adding compound or screed, not by grinding deeper.

Do you lay the resin floor after grinding?

No. Those finishes are laid by specialist firms, not by K & B. We grind and prepare the slab so it is clean and sound, and the resin contractor lays their system on top. On a Warwick industrial unit, we can agree the surface they need before we start so the handover is straightforward.

Is shot blasting better than grinding?

It depends on the floor. Grinding gives fine control and suits removing high spots, adhesive and thin coatings in rooms and units. Shot blasting or scarifying can be faster on very large areas or thick coatings. For a Warwick warehouse or office, the choice rests on the floor itself and on what goes over it, and we recommend one method once both are known.

Free, no-obligation quote

A fixed price for your Warwick floor