Cleaning off glue/adhesive ?
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A friend has taken on a small warehouse unit and the floor looks like concrete painted over. The previous occupiers have part carpeted it and fixed this, and a metal strip, down with adhesive. Any ideas what could be used to clean the floor of the adhesive if the carpet is removed? He wants more of the floor bare. Looking at taking up around 11ft x 8ft. Many thanks. |
Cleaning off glue/adhesive ?
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Hi, A friend has taken on a small warehouse unit and the floor looks like concrete painted over. The previous occupiers have part carpeted it and fixed this, and a metal strip, down with adhesive. Any ideas what could be used to clean the floor of the adhesive if the carpet is removed? He wants more of the floor bare. Looking at taking up around 11ft x 8ft. One of these & plenty of elbow grease http://www.screwfix.com/prods/46108/.../Floor-Scraper Might need some kind of solvent depending on the type of glue, try white spirit of meths to start with. -- Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk |
Cleaning off glue/adhesive ?
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:29:56 +0000, no-one
wrote: Hi, A friend has taken on a small warehouse unit and the floor looks like concrete painted over. The previous occupiers have part carpeted it and fixed this, and a metal strip, down with adhesive. Any ideas what could be used to clean the floor of the adhesive if the carpet is removed? He wants more of the floor bare. Looking at taking up around 11ft x 8ft. Many thanks. Yucky stuff. The solution.. Equipment, Wallpaper scraper Dustpan and brush Plus magic ingredient... talcum powder. Liberally sprinkle the sticky glue with talc and scrape glue off with scraper. It will form into non-sticky little balls, easily swept up. Repeat as required. It won't get the last traces off, but 90%+. Then its down to belt sander or solvents. |
Cleaning off glue/adhesive ?
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Handyman writes no-one wrote: Hi, A friend has taken on a small warehouse unit and the floor looks like concrete painted over. The previous occupiers have part carpeted it and fixed this, and a metal strip, down with adhesive. Any ideas what could be used to clean the floor of the adhesive if the carpet is removed? He wants more of the floor bare. Looking at taking up around 11ft x 8ft. One of these & plenty of elbow grease http://www.screwfix.com/prods/46108 Might need some kind of solvent depending on the type of glue, try white spirit of meths to start with. If they've used contact adhesive then it may benefit from being charred with a blowlamp before scraping it off but repainting may be necessary. -- fred BBC3, ITV2/3/4, channels going to the DOGs |
Cleaning off glue/adhesive ?
On 20 Jan, 22:12, Simon C. . wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:29:56 +0000, no-one wrote: Hi, A friend has taken on a small warehouse unit and the floor looks like concrete painted over. * The previous occupiers have part carpeted it and fixed this, and a metal strip, down with adhesive. Any ideas what could be used to clean the floor of the adhesive if the carpet is removed? * He *wants more of the floor bare. * Looking at taking up around 11ft x 8ft. Many thanks. Yucky stuff. The solution.. Equipment, Wallpaper scraper Dustpan and brush Plus magic ingredient... talcum powder. Liberally sprinkle the sticky glue with talc and scrape glue off with scraper. It will form into non-sticky little balls, easily swept up. Repeat as required. It won't get the last traces off, but 90%+. Then its down to belt sander or solvents. Scraper - go to Screwfix and get one of their large snow scrapers - actually more an ice scraper as it has a steel broom length handle and a steel blade about 9" wide. |
Cleaning off glue/adhesive ?
Many thanks to all for the suggestions.
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