Grinding trade units on Vansittart Estate and Fairacres
Workshops, trade counters and offices sit side by side on Arthur Road's Vansittart Estate, and the Windsor Trade Centre at Fairacres Industrial Estate adds more industrial units. A floor in any of these has usually been worked hard. One tenant may have painted it, another glued carpet tiles over part of it, and a third patched it where a machine stood.
None of that is a good base. Levelling compound, a new screed or the adhesive for vinyl has to bond to clean, sound concrete, not to a layer of paint that could peel away. Diamond grinding deals with this by cutting the top of the slab off in thin passes. Rotating heads fitted with diamond segments strip coatings, glue residue and the weak surface skin, and they bring down ridges, trowel marks and the lips that form where two bays of concrete were cast at different times.
The ground surface is open and slightly textured, which is what a primer needs to bite into. From there the floor can take levelling compound for the new fit-out, a fresh screed, a resin system laid by another contractor, or the new flooring itself.
For us, grinding is preparation only. Resin and polished concrete are outside our work, and the machines are not for sale or hire: our operatives bring the grinders and diamond tooling and run them. Where a coating is thick or the area is very large, shot blasting or scarifying may be quicker, and our floor preparation and shot blasting page describes those methods.
Grinding floors in Windsor homes and extensions
Houses need grinding too, usually on a smaller scale. In Dedworth, where the semis date from the post-war decades, a rear extension is the typical project, and the line where its new slab butts up to the old floor can leave a small lip. Grinding takes that ridge down so the join disappears under compound. Homes built between 1973 and 1999 make up 19% of Windsor's housing, and lifting tired carpet or vinyl in a house of that age can reveal hard, old adhesive that must come off before anything new is glued down.
Grinding has a limit worth knowing. It removes high spots, but it cannot correct a floor that falls or sags across a whole room. Cutting deeper only makes the low areas worse by comparison, and it can take a screed below its safe minimum depth. In that case we grind the high points and then level or screed the rest.
Dust is the other concern. Silica is present in concrete, screed and tiles, and grinding them throws up fine dust that is harmful to breathe. Every grinder we run has an extraction unit connected, doorways are sealed with sheeting and the rooms next to the work are protected. For the town just over 2 miles away, see floor grinding in Slough.
How we price floor grinding in Windsor
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 Windsor
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 Windsor
Windsor is about 3.9 miles south-south-east of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including SL4 and TW19. The nearest towns to it are Slough (2.1 miles), Egham (4.3 miles), Staines-upon-Thames (5.3 miles) and Maidenhead (5.6 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
