you can usually get adhesive off in one of 2 ways a heat gun to soften the
glue then use an Ice scraper to scrape it off or to freeze it with dry ice
causing it to crack. Floating would be quite a bit of work plus it will add
to the height of the floor.

Wayne

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I looked at a basement floor where there had been a flood, and all the wood
parquet tiling had been removed. The room is about 12X16. That adhesive
is
as hard as a rock and would be about impossible to remove. Would the
standard procedure be to float the whole floor in thinset before applying
either
vinyl tile or paint? Wood the finished thinset job really be smooth
enough to
paint, or would it be full of swipes and ridges, if a professional did the
job?
Is putting down the thinset something an ameteur could do?