Tonight we popped over to our local ACE Hardware and bought some special Adhesive Remover, made for laminate floor glue and a scraper. Tomorrow night we will be having another adhesive full frontal attack and I will let you know whether we emerge victorious!
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I've restored a few floors with residual glues and adhesives.
The solvent will probably work - if you use lots of it. But vent the room but not with an electrical fan - their motors spark and the solvent is very flammable. You will need special filter masks for volatile chemicals - the cheap paper ones won't work.
I'm guessing from the photo but you might need a heavy duty stripper - the kind for removing paint from furniture. This is usually is methylene chloride - again a powerful chemical needing venting, rubber gloves, goggles, etc. But it's the strongest stripper made. If you can't find this - try the strippers made of citrus products (smells like oranges).
Once that's done, you will need to neutralize the the residual chemicals in the wood - sanding isn't enough... every product should say what will do this.
Finally, do the sanding.
btw, here via the Black Box.
Thanks for this information, it does say non-flammable on the tin, but we will be very careful with ventilation, sparks etc. We also only plan on doing a small area at a time.
Wow - please do tell us how it all turns out!
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