maintaining a clean porous surface on concrete

i need to maintain a clean and porous surface on my basement floor in order to apply a waterproofing product. unfortunately half of it was covered with those cheap linoleum squares and the adhesive that remains is a thin layer of super stiff puddy. i spent a whole day doing about

80 sq/ft. hitting it with an angle grinder. first with a steel brush attachment to remove the bulk, then with a cement attachment to remove the residual. the tricky part is i needed to remove the right amount of cement as i take off the adhesive. otherwise the grinder gets gummed up and just spreads the adhesive around. very tedious.

i feel like i need to stick with a mechanical method as the concrete is supposed to have an open and clean surface for application. i don't want to risk using some degumming agent or lacquer thinner.

any ideas? i'm thinking i'd have to rent some pro-ish floor refinishing gear. i'm in san francisco so maybe that wouldn't be too hard.

much thanks

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Acid might work if you have a way of rinsing it off.

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