I’m building a shop in the 3 car garage of our new house. The previous owner built the garage as a gym and had the concrete floor covered with padding and carpet. My plan is to pull up the carpet and then paint the concrete floor.
The carpet and pad is up but the the floor has residue from the adhesive used to hold down the padding. What’s the best way to remove the adhesive. It cleans up easily and completely with hardware store variety paint stripper but I ‘m really not excited about hand stripping an entire 3 car garage floor. I’ve tried pressure washing but that doesnt do it.
Anyone know a better way to do it?
thanks
dave
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rent a floor buffer from rental place w hardwood floor sanding equipment, put a sanding screen on it and run across florr alsways keeep it moving so concrete doesn't snag the screen i'd try number 80 grit screen first, if it grabs , go to 100 or 120 done this a few times, worked well use sharp scraper for tough lumps
Buy or get a flat shovel. Get a grinder and sharpen the leading edge. Place a few bricks, more the better but not so it is too heavy for weight on the shovel.
Now just push the shovel across the slab and see how much old glue it scrapes up.
my thought on this would be to go to walmart and buy about 5-10 gals of purple power cleaner.it's in the auto dept. then i would start soaking it for a few hours.then a pressure washer with 3000psi and 4gpm+.years ago i would have used a solvent based cleaning solvent! if that don't work it's time for the sander.larry
hand me the chainsaw, i need to trim the casing just a hair.
soak the floor with paint thinner... (portion at a time)
scrape and then mop up the residue...
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if the floor is smooth they make a "scarifier" (a buffer type machine with razors at the bottom) that you can rent usually i've used similar onesas the kind listed on page 4 http://www.aramsco.com/Literature/Catalogs/SurfacePreparation-2006.pdf
i have used a citrus stripper and a long handle scraper or rented floor scraper works well. any flooring store should be able to help find these items. smells like oranges