Workshop and office floors on Witney industrial estates
Thorney Leys Business Park and the Witney Innovation Centre sit on the same council list of employment sites as the industrial estates. Premises there run from offices to workshops, and the floors vary with them, from a quick drying screed at one end to a floor strong enough for racking and vehicles at the other.
When a unit changes use, the old floor usually has to be taken back before anything new goes on. Grinding does that by cutting. Diamond segments on spinning heads shave the surface in thin passes, removing painted lines, worn floor paint, thin coatings, carpet tile glue and the ridges and lips left between bays. The result is open, clean concrete that primer and compound or a new screed can bond to.
Where a workshop floor needs to carry heavy loads, grinding is often the preparation for a higher strength screed laid on top. It is equally the preparation for a resin coating, but resin is laid by others. Resin and polished concrete are not part of our work, and our grinders and diamond tooling are never sold or hired out: the machines come with our own operators.
On a very large floor, or one with a thick coating, shot blasting or scarifying can be quicker than grinding, and our floor preparation page explains both. The choice depends on what is on the floor and how much of it there is.
Garages, extensions and heated floors in Witney
Homes built from 2000 to 2014 are 19% of Witney's housing, and in a house of that age, replacing the original carpet or vinyl is a common refit. Lifting old carpet or vinyl tends to leave adhesive that a new levelling coat will not stick to, and grinding takes it back to bare screed.
Extensions bring a different lip to deal with. On Madley Park and similar estates, it is the semis of the late 20th century and the newer houses that tend to be extended, and where a new floor meets the old one the two seldom match exactly. Grinding the high side lets the join be smoothed rather than ramped. Garages being converted often have paint or oil on the slab, which comes off the same way.
Those extensions often have underfloor heating, and that calls for restraint. Grinding too hard can leave a screed under its minimum depth, which on a heated floor means less cover over the pipes. Screed over heating pipes in Witney sets out the cover needed.
Grinding fixes local high spots, not a floor that slopes across a room; that floor is ground and then levelled or rescreeded. Silica dust is the other concern, so we grind only with extraction attached. We also grind floors in Oxford.
How we price floor grinding in Witney
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 Witney
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 Witney
Witney is about 40.2 miles west-north-west of our Slough base as the crow flies, with postcodes including OX28 and OX29. The nearest towns to it are Carterton (5.1 miles), Kidlington (8.8 miles), Oxford (10 miles) and Abingdon-on-Thames (11.9 miles).
More on floor grinding, part of our screeding services.
