Commercial floor grinding at John Wilson Business Park
Large retailers, offices and light industry occupy the John Wilson Business Park and the other parks around the fringe of Whitstable. Each new occupier tends to inherit a floor that was finished for somebody else's use. Painted concrete, worn line markings, carpet tile glue and old thin coatings all have to come off before new flooring, levelling compound or a resin system can bond.
A diamond grinder does that by cutting. Heads fitted with diamond segments spin against the floor and take the surface down in thin passes, removing the contamination along with the weak top skin of the concrete. What is left is a clean, slightly textured surface that a primer can soak into, with no loose dust or flaking paint to undermine it.
The harbour has floors of its own. Fishing, fish processing, cargo and boat storage all happen on the working harbour, and buildings used like that may have coated or sealed floors. Grinding takes back thin coatings; where a coating is thick or the area is large, shot blasting and other floor preparation is usually quicker.
We prepare floors for resin applied by specialist firms, but we do not lay resin ourselves, and polished concrete is outside our work too. Our part ends with a sound, open surface ready for the next trade, or for a hard-wearing commercial screed laid by us.
Dust, depth and limits on Whitstable floors
Silica is the reason we never grind without extraction. Concrete, screed and ceramic tiles all contain it, and grinding produces respirable crystalline silica dust fine enough to hang in the air. Every grinder we use runs through an extractor, and we seal doorways and sheet adjoining areas, which counts for a lot in a shop sharing a wall with a trading neighbour or a house where the family is still living.
Grinding is also not a cure for every uneven floor. It works on bumps, lips between bays, trowel marks and ridges. A slab that sags across a room or falls towards one wall is a different problem, because grinding it flat would mean removing far too much, and over-grinding a screed can leave it thinner than its minimum depth. The answer then is to take off the highs and fill the lows with levelling compound.
In houses, those built between 2000 and 2014 make up 11% of Whitstable's housing, and when flooring in a house of that age is changed for the first time, the glue left behind may need taking off. Garage conversions are similar, with paint and oil to remove. Either way the grinding is done by our own team: we do not hire out grinders or sell diamond tooling.
How we price floor grinding in Whitstable
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 Whitstable
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 Whitstable
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 73.1 miles from Whitstable, which lies to the east. Postcodes here include CT5, and Herne Bay (4.5 miles), Canterbury (5.9 miles), Faversham (6.5 miles) and Sittingbourne (12.6 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
