How to Remove Heavy Duty Construction Adhesives
It’s difficult to remove a heavy duty construction adhesive and its residues from a surface. Well, if you are faced with the job to remove such an adhesive, don’t worry. A good clean up solvent can help you remove the stubborn adhesives. Before proceeding to eliminate such glue, you need to know the ways in which you can do the job without making any damage on the surface of panelings, walls, and floors.
Below appear some tips to help you remove adhesive residue:
1. Scrape off the adhesive from floor, molding and paneling
Employ a putty knife for scraping off the adhesive, to remove small amounts of the adhesive from your floor, paneling and molding. However, be cautious to not drive the knife edge too hard upon the surface, to prevent any damage. In case the adhesive does not come off from tiles easily, try to rub acetone or alcohol to help loosen up a light construction adhesive. However, their effectiveness many not be that much in case you need to remove heavy duty adhesives. Apart from that, acetone or alcohol may cause damage to painted surfaces, and so you should be careful when utilizing these substances.
2. Utilize an industrial grade adhesive remover
The most effective way to remove heavy duty construction adhesives is using industrial grade adhesive remover. As most of the industrial grade adhesive removers consist of strong chemicals, a clean up solvent should always be tested on a small, hidden area to ensure that the solvent won’t damage your floors or walls.
An adhesive remover generally comes with built-in scrapers and sponge applicators. So, you don’t need to purchase any additional tools. When applying an adhesive remover, apply the clean up solvent with the sponge application. After application of the solvent, leave it for some minutes and then try to scrape the adhesive off the surface. Several heavy duty construction adhesives don’t melt easily when you expose them to adhesive removers. If you find that the adhesives upon your floors or walls don’t melt easily, apply an abundant quantity of the remover on the affected surface. The clean up solvent should be left on the area for around an hour. After one hour, scrape the adhesive off the surface gently.
3. Blast the adhesive off using water
Construction adhesives that are stubborn and are on hard materials like rock and bricks, can be eliminated by blasting the area using water pressure system of high power or by sand blasting. Sand blasting and water pressure serve the purpose, however, they can leave marks upon the surfaces of the hard materials like rocks and bricks. Sand blasting may leave some ugly marks on floors and wall too, so, employ this method only when there are no other suitable options. If some areas on walls and floors become unevenly colored after application of sand blasting or water pressure for removing construction adhesive, consider repainting the areas to make the colors even.
4. Apply heat upon the surface affected
Heat can resulting in melting of stubborn construction adhesives without causing any damage to the surface of walls or floors. To eliminate construction adhesive from floors or walls, scrape the adhesive off gently while applying heat to the floor or wall surface. Perform the scrapping while the floor or wall surface is hot. Keep in mind that once the surface becomes cold, the adhesive tends to get hardened, which makes it difficult to remove the adhesive without causing any damage to the wall or floor.
Construction adhesives are often stubborn and removing them may be a challenge. However, these tips would help you remove the adhesives in an effective way.
