Does anyone know how to remove solidified Gripfill?
Can't be sure, but it looks like it might be Gripfill. Someone has attached carpet gripper extrusions to a concrete floor with some sort of paste/glue which has squeejee'd along the length of the gripper. Light brown appearance, and pretty solid.
I wondered whether there was a chemical agent which could deal with this, or if it's hard graft with a chisel.
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That stuff could be hot melt glue
Only thing I know it a scraper / chisel. I'm sure there is a chemical somewhere but It must be pretty nasty to remove that stuff.
Sorry
Tony
Thanks for that.
I bought me a Bosch electric scraper last week, can't imagine why I hadn't thought of trying that on this job before your response came thru!
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Should work. I loaned mine to my neighbour last week to remove some. Still fairly time consuming though.
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Good suggestion, but I'm used to hot melt glue and this didn't have the right consistency. Hot melt glue usually dries to be a bit rubbery and can be attacked with a stanley knife, this was more akin to dried and hardened polyfilla in its makeup (I've no idea if that makes it a pointer to gripfill - I have to admit having only recently started using gripfill and don't recall having gone back to a previously made joint, so I don't know what it physically dries like).
It's a light brown colour too, hence gripfill came to mind ahead of hot melt.
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Hello PoP
Easy, get somebody else to do it.
Floor level stuff is almost as easy, use a garden spade.
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