Concrete Grinding And How Much Can A Grinder Remove?

Concrete Grinding And How Much Can A Grinder Remove?

The Concrete Grinding process is also used to level very small highs in concrete slabs up to 3 MM, grind expansion joints level, and prepare surfaces for the application of leveling compound or for the re-installation of floor coatings or floor coverings such as Carpet Tiles, Vinyl, Floorboards as they all need a clean smooth and porous slab to bond too.

Concrete Grinders often only remove a thin layer of material from the surface of workpieces per pass. Typically, diamond grinding tools only remove between 0.25 MM to 0.50 MM of material for a maximum of 3 MM.

Industrial or heavy-duty Concrete Grinders with correct diamond tooling or other tooling can grind depths of up to 6 MM of material from the workpiece.

After this point, a ‘Concrete Scarifier‘ or ‘Concrete Shotblaster‘ must be used to get further depth

Regarding how many MM can be taken off, please follow the guide below:

– Concrete Grinding – Residential – (3MM MAX)
– Concrete Grinding – Commercial – (6MM MAX)

– Bump Removal – (8MM MAX)

– Coating Removal – (6MM MAX)
– Coating Removal – Double Layer – (12MM MAX)

– Concrete Scarifier – (6MM / PER PASS)
– Concrete Shotblaster  – (10MM / PER PASS)

– Floor Levelling – (1MM – 100MM / RAISE)
– Concrete Cutting – (Up to 1/4 of the thickness of the concrete slab)

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