Concrete Floor Preparation in the Hunter Region

Every floor prices differently, because the cost is driven by what's on the slab rather than by how big it is. A general grind to open up a slab for an epoxy system sits at one end; taking off glues, toppings or a failed coating sits at the other. Area, access, out-of-hours work and the amount of edge and detail work all move the number, and a lot of what we price across the Hunter is workshop, warehouse and winery floor, which sit in quite different parts of that range — an oil-soaked workshop slab needs far more taken off it than a clean new shed. We price the actual floor rather than work from a rate card, and the site visit costs nothing — the quickest way to get a real figure is to send us the details — the floor area, what's down now and what's going down afterwards — and we'll come back with a proper price.

It depends on the slab and the specification, not the size of the floor. Shot blasting is fast across open floor plate and gives a consistent profile, which suits most resin systems. Grinding offers more control, handles coatings blasting won't shift cleanly and takes high spots down. We walk the floor before quoting anywhere across the Hunter, from Maitland out to Muswellbrook, so the method is settled before anyone mobilises.

The ICRI concrete surface profile scale, running CSP 1 to 9, describes how rough a prepared slab is. Coating and flooring manufacturers specify a CSP in their data sheets, and the warranty generally depends on it being achieved. Tell us the system and we'll prepare to its number.

Close to it, though not literally. The shot and debris are recovered under a contained hood as the machine runs, which keeps dust down to the point where blasting is viable inside occupied buildings. There's still some, so we contain the work area and run extraction alongside it.

Yes. Much of our Hunter prep work runs at night, on weekends or during planned shutdowns — mine site workshops work to maintenance shutdown windows, wineries need their production floors back before vintage, and food production lines and aged care kitchens have to be handed over empty and back in use the next morning.

A day is the useful unit. An open 500 m² warehouse floor at Rutherford or Thornton will blast in a day; the same area of oil-soaked workshop slab around Singleton, with pits, plinths and edge work, can run to three. Access moves the number more than area does — a drive-through shed with a roller door at each end is a different job to a winery production room with tanks fixed to the floor and a single doorway. We give you a day count with the quote rather than a range, and where the floor has to be back in use by Monday we plan the shifts around that.