are you talking carpet glue adhesive or a cementious mastic for tile? we just removed 400 sf of very heavy carpet glue using a delimolene striipper and scrap away head. found that a 6 ft floor scrapper with a razor blade worked wonders, they sell them as a local carpet supply store for the carpet layer people. after that we ran our 50 grit braised diamond which cleaned up the rest of it, underneath it is a terrazzo floor we are restoring..Malish makes a mastic removal head that is a glorified scrap away..i have mixed feelings about it, it has been much improved over the original model that came out 2 years ago..still too expensive for what it is. sometimes you can rent a scrap away at rental place..the  best stripper for glue is called Big Orange from Zep, but it has a really really strong citrus smell. i prefer a dilluted version called Citrus Kut, very low odor..

From: Georgia <georgia@stonebuff.com>
To: Stone and Tile PROS Technical Support <sccpartners@stoneandtilepros.com>
Sent: Friday, October 5, 2012 10:11 AM
Subject: RE: [sccpartners] Mastic Nightmare

Hi Dr. Fred,

What product will have the CO2?

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Fred Hueston <fhueston@gmail.com> wrote:
If the mastic is thick enough and it is gooey, you can freeze it with carbon dioxide and it will make it brittle and it will scrape right up.    

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Georgia <georgia@stonebuff.com> wrote:
Hi all,

I have run into a mess.  52 year old house. Client removed old cork flooring. Mastic was left. I had the concrete and mastic tested for asbestos and it is negative. We need to remove this mastic. We dry ground with 50's but it was barely cutting it.  So we grabbed some mastic stripper and saw it was helping a bit.  It ended up spreading all over and making a more sticky mess.  Does anybody have any tips on how I can remove this 50 year old mastic?

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