Grinding unit floors at Heron Industrial Estate and Hurricane Way
Wickford Business Park is a cluster of warehouse and light industrial buildings off the A132 and the A130, and some of its units have mezzanines. When a tenant leaves, the floor they leave behind is rarely ready for the next one.
There may be painted walkways and bay lines, a worn sealer, glue from a showroom carpet, or a resin coat that is lifting at the edges. Racking leaves fixing holes and bolt stubs. Where the slab was laid in bays, there can be a lip at each joint that catches pallet truck wheels.
A diamond grinder deals with most of this. Rotating heads cut the surface away a thin layer at a time, removing coatings, adhesive and the weak top skin, and taking high spots and lips down to the surrounding level. Holes and damaged patches are then filled as part of repairs to damaged concrete.
What goes on afterwards is the client's choice: compound and vinyl for a trade counter, a new screed on a worn area, or a resin system laid by a specialist firm. We prepare floors for resin but do not lay it, and we do not polish concrete.
For a whole warehouse floor or a thick coating, shot blasting or scarifying can be quicker, and shot blasting is part of our shot blasting and floor preparation service. In a unit with offices or a trade counter, grinding often handles the edges and the smaller rooms while blasting covers the open floor.
Wickford extensions, garages and lifted carpets
In houses, grinding is usually a short job between stripping out an old floor and laying a new one.
When one of Wickford's 1960s to 1990s houses gets a rear extension, fresh concrete has to meet the original floor, and the heights rarely match exactly. A ridge of a few millimetres at the join is easier to grind off than to bury under compound. Garage conversions start with a slab marked by oil, paint and tyre rubber, and grinding gets it back to concrete a membrane or primer can sit on.
Carpet and vinyl glue is the other common target. Thick black bitumen adhesive is a poor base for primer and compound, so it is taken off rather than covered.
A grinder cannot fix everything. It cannot flatten a floor that slopes or sags over a wide area. In that case the high points are ground and the room is brought level with compound or screed, as set out on our levelling compound for Wickford homes page. A screed can also be ground too thin, so we check its depth first.
Dust is the safety issue. Concrete, screed and tile contain silica, and grinding them releases fine dust that damages lungs. We only grind with extraction on the machine, and we seal doorways and cover the rooms next door before starting.
How we price floor grinding in Wickford
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 Wickford
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 Wickford
As the crow flies, our yard in Slough is about 50.5 miles from Wickford, which lies to the east. Postcodes here include SS12 and SS11, and Rayleigh (4.1 miles), Basildon (4.2 miles), Billericay (4.5 miles) and South Woodham Ferrers (4.9 miles) are close by.
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.