The 1st Philosophical Handyman of the Humber wrote:
david west wrote:
I am trying to remove form-back carpet that's fixed to vinyl tiles with an
unknown but probably carpet adhesive.
Any suggestions of a solvent apart from elbow grease?

Cillit Bang and petrol. Definitely.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/5234552.stm

A right silly bang that was. A for the carpet, the adhesive is probably
the foam itself. It aught to be laid on paper -even newspaper would
have sufficed.

What a nasty floor covering that sort of carpeting was. Do they still
make it?