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?
Regards
David West

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?
Regards
David West

Cillit Bang and petrol. Definitely. ;-)

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

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?

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?
Regards
David West


acetone is wildly aggressive and also makes you very light headed..its
worth a try, as is petrol, white spirit and cellulose thinners of
varying types.

There seem to be no hard and fast rules..different polymers dissolve in
different solvents,.

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"david west" writes:
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?

If you don't care about scratching the tiles, use a flat edged
shovel as a scraper to get it off. That's what a carpet fitter
suggested to me, and it worked well.

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Andrew Gabriel