Thread: House Tech: Pulling up floor tile

Quote: Originally Posted by Muddin Nick says that actually, that would give you the nicest floor. He says to get aircraft paint stripper, lacquer thinner knee pads with plastic inserts, good gloves, and go to town. Open the windows. Strip it with the aircraft stripper, then wash the floor with lacquer thinner. Nick used this method to strip epoxy from a garage floor. When finished, it was perfectly clean bare concrete. Does Nick sell this...

He has already removed the tile (damage done) all that is left is the glue... Right?

Quote: Originally Posted by NECKSTER Almost all black cutback (VCT tile adhesive) contained asbestos until 1988. Some manufacturers quit using asbestos around 1978, but it was few and far between. There is about a 99.88% chance your glue is asbestos. In all honesty, your small room does not contain enough to really be all that harmful. Also, it isn't harmful unless you sand it and make it dust, and it becomes airborn. To answer your...

Quote: Originally Posted by trampas This. ^ It contains asbestos almost with a 100% certainty. Knock down any 'large chunk' of cutback and leave that crap alone at that point. Float over it and continue... this is what i said too. in commercial construction that is known as encapsulation. no need to remove it. if your going back with thinset just skim over it.

Quote: Originally Posted by animator Does Nick sell this kind of stuff at his store? You can get the lacquer thinner there, but the aircraft paint stripper he said is at Homodepot...along with lacquer thinner.

Quote: Originally Posted by animator For floor sanding or a grinder, would I need to worry about this stuff containing asbestos? From searching the web, I'm seeing people mention products such as WD-40 or Bean e-doo. Any thoughts on the efficiency of either? Depending on the floor elevation in comparison to the other floors, we used to install a new 3/8" underlayment down, right over the asbestos based flooring. You encapsulate...

possible to use a blastrac type machine to blast the glue off using steel bb's. This is probably going to be a little much unless your doing an area the size of a grocery store or so. Edit: Depending on when it was put down it most likely contains loads of asbestos.

Quote: Originally Posted by ItsaCJ6 Power scraper, grinder. floor sander, chemicals, All massively time consuming That's it right there. No fun way to do it.

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Pour concrete on top of the tile, then you'll have bare concrete...infinitely easier!