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Need to remove carpet glue from concrete floor, can't kick up a lot of dust, remote location so I'm limited on tool options
I'm working on getting rid of old carpet in my clothing store, there is concrete underneath. I'd like to remove the carpet, get rid of the glue, and then epoxy the concrete Pulling up the carpet is easy, epoxy coat I can figure out later, but the carpet glue is stubborn and here are options as far as I can tell and their issues. I have a few guys who I can get to help me work btw, but not for free. I'd estimate the square footage is at least 2000 but that's a really rough ballpark figure, but definitely not a small area or a garage Hand scrape the glue as best as I can with or without a glue removing solvent. I think this would be the cleanest and wouldn't damage any clothing, and I could do it at night after the store is closed, but would be really labor intensive and would probably need to buy a lot of solvent since it's a large area, like maybe 20-40 gallons of solvent Angle grinder with vacuum attachment which would be less labor intensive maybe? But also might kick up a lot of dust. Could cover all the displays/clothing racks with plastic wrap if the angle grinder(s) are fast enough to get the job done in a day or two. Or could do this at night during closed hours Rent a big professional floor stripper, which seems to be the recommendation of this sub for getting rid of glue, but again if it's going to kick up a ton of dust that will be a pain in the ass and potentially damage a lot of inventory (covering with plastic bags again is an option, but makes me a bit nervous). The other issue is the store is located in an area that it would be a considerable pain in the ass to get a machine rented and shipped there; pick up from Home Depot, drive to a barge, pick it up the next day, use it for however many days it takes and then ship it back So yeah I guess my options are, long slow process that might take a ton of man hours and be really expensive, but will be safe for inventory and not interfere with business, or trying to do it the professional way that might get messy or have to shut down business for a few days. Any advice would be really helpful, like if you think scraping is the only safe way, or if there are ways to do it fast without causing much mess, etc, thanks in advance! submitted by /u/fixingyourmirror [link] [comments]
I'm working on getting rid of old carpet in my clothing store, there is concrete underneath. I'd like to remove the carpet, get rid of the glue, and then epoxy the concrete
Pulling up the carpet is easy, epoxy coat I can figure out later, but the carpet glue is stubborn and here are options as far as I can tell and their issues. I have a few guys who I can get to help me work btw, but not for free. I'd estimate the square footage is at least 2000 but that's a really rough ballpark figure, but definitely not a small area or a garage
Hand scrape the glue as best as I can with or without a glue removing solvent. I think this would be the cleanest and wouldn't damage any clothing, and I could do it at night after the store is closed, but would be really labor intensive and would probably need to buy a lot of solvent since it's a large area, like maybe 20-40 gallons of solvent
Angle grinder with vacuum attachment which would be less labor intensive maybe? But also might kick up a lot of dust. Could cover all the displays/clothing racks with plastic wrap if the angle grinder(s) are fast enough to get the job done in a day or two. Or could do this at night during closed hours
Rent a big professional floor stripper, which seems to be the recommendation of this sub for getting rid of glue, but again if it's going to kick up a ton of dust that will be a pain in the ass and potentially damage a lot of inventory (covering with plastic bags again is an option, but makes me a bit nervous). The other issue is the store is located in an area that it would be a considerable pain in the ass to get a machine rented and shipped there; pick up from Home Depot, drive to a barge, pick it up the next day, use it for however many days it takes and then ship it back
So yeah I guess my options are, long slow process that might take a ton of man hours and be really expensive, but will be safe for inventory and not interfere with business, or trying to do it the professional way that might get messy or have to shut down business for a few days.
Any advice would be really helpful, like if you think scraping is the only safe way, or if there are ways to do it fast without causing much mess, etc, thanks in advance!
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