Willow Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Since people here seem to have answers to all these types of ques I'm trying to remove old lino type of tiles from the floorboards in what was the original kitchen in our house (and is now a throughfare to everything downstairs except loo and living room so we need to be able to continue to walk through if possible. These tiles will have been stuck there since the house was built in about 1960 and were stuck down with a very thick layer of tar like adhesive. Eventually I want to sand the floor with a proper floorsander from HSS but if I tried to do it with that much adhesive it would just clog the sandpaper. A s"Ooops, word censored!"er will remove the tile but not the adhesive. The florrboards don't come up very cleanly so lifting them and turning them over will result quite a bit of damage. Help ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quickcluck Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Have you tried white sprit and a s"Ooops, word censored!"er? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted January 14, 2009 Author Share Posted January 14, 2009 Yes it's too thick and sticky to make much of an impact Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purple hen Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Does it soften enough to s"Ooops, word censored!"e more easily if you warm it with a hair dryer? Being very careful not to overdo it and go up in flames Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Have just asked DH, a font of knowledge on all things difficult to remove. He suggests you heat up the s"Ooops, word censored!"er with the same tool used to remove oil paint and then try and s"Ooops, word censored!"e it off, keep heating and s"Ooops, word censored!"ing. When most of it is removed try removing the residue with a paint remover, Nitromores?? Hope this helps. Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abwsco Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 One of our bedroom floors was covered in the stuff. House bulit in the mid 40's. We just sanded it with heavy duty sheets with the industrail sander to get it all off. You'd nveer know that it had been there now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willow Posted January 14, 2009 Author Share Posted January 14, 2009 Heating the s"Ooops, word censored!"er sounds like a good idea. I must admit I thought about heating the adhesive but was a bit worried about noxious fumes and fire risk whereas heating the s"Ooops, word censored!"er wouldn't have either of those. Anne, Interesting you managed to sand, I did suggest we just give that a go to OH but he was adamant it wouldn't work. I know when we sanded a floor with much less adhesive it worked but we clogged the paper quite quickly but maybe we weren't using sufficiently heavy duty sheets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abwsco Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Heating the s"Ooops, word censored!"er sounds like a good idea. I must admit I thought about heating the adhesive but was a bit worried about noxious fumes and fire risk whereas heating the s"Ooops, word censored!"er wouldn't have either of those. Anne, Interesting you managed to sand, I did suggest we just give that a go to OH but he was adamant it wouldn't work. I know when we sanded a floor with much less adhesive it worked but we clogged the paper quite quickly but maybe we weren't using sufficiently heavy duty sheets. Patricia, it wasn't easy and I think if it had been our first time at sanding floorboards it would have put us off for life Can't remember how many sheets we used but I know that room took the most. It took us 2 days instead of the normal one to get them done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
