Getting off Carpet Glue

All,

Any Advice on trying to get carpet glue off? Close to resorting to a gridding wheel, they should my black boxes out of this stuff.

Thanks

Killit

 

Have you tried warming it up with a heat gun and scraping with a plastic scraper?

 

If it's anything like the glue they use for window tinting the only solution we found that removed it was Gin.

 

try wd40

 

seconded for wd40 - it's a great cleaner for lots of stuff

 

Paint thinners may work

 

Acetone.

 

a 12 step program?

 

acetone for sure i reckon. i just painted over mine, couldnt be bothered.

 

Isopropyl?

 

I used this stuff for cleaning off the old glue when I fitted new door rubbers, & it worked a treat..

http://www.bostik.co.uk/diy/product/evo-stik/Adhesive-Cleaner/114

 

Just as long as you don't have someone standing behind you

 

It's alcohol birdy, not rohypnol!

 

My bad. I was getting it confused with isopropyl nitrate

I've just wikipedia'd it. Interesting. It's not what I thought it was used for that's for sure.

 

I dread to think! Lol

 

Cheers Guys,

One of the suggestions is bound to work and if not I will be so high from the fumes and simply won't care.

Killit

 

ask zed he got it of my roof

 

Anything that melts it makes it harder to remove. I patiently scraped with a semi-sharp chisel, then thinners for the last tiny bit. It's easier on inside of a painted bus as it rolls up, but still hard work. I haven't found a magic solution and I've tried most things.

 

Would freezing it help? You could use a tin of the pipe freezing stuff that plumbers use.

 

I tried loads of things, 3m adesive remover, bostik adhesive remover, thinners, etc. some stuff came off with a razor blade but some stuff wouldn't shift and i got so *******ed off i used a cup brush on an angle grinder. If you're careful and use the one with the fine strands, you can remove the glue without damaging the paint.