paint and glue removal

SigristPW

SigristPW

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So i did this ladys house today ( Turned out great!!). So she asked me to do her side walks and setps to her house also. I started with the side walks used some bleach and a turbo nozzle they turned out great.but thennn....She had carpet on her concrete steps that when she had it removed there was red paint and glue left on the concrete.Long story short she wants me to remover the paint and glue. i tried to hit it with the turbo nozzle at 3000psi got some gule off but i dont want to scar the concrete. is there anything that i can buy that is local that will eat that stuff off the concrete? please let me know

THANKS,
WES
 
Look around for an industrial chemical supplier. If you have trouble finding one, you might try calling a carpet cleaning company and ask them (be honest with them). Talk to them, they'll refer a paint stripper or solvent. Hot water will help a lot. If all else fails, a heavy heat gun will take a long time, but you might get a valuable customer for life, and referrals.
 
When I moved into a house 17 years ago, the previous owners had astroturf glued to the front porch. we peeled the turf, which left the glue lines. I used high caustics, butyls, methylene chloride, thinner, everything on it and it wouldn't budge. I ended up lightly sandblasting it, and, with a fresh coat of porch paint, it looked great.
 
SigristPW said:
So i did this ladys house today ( Turned out great!!). So she asked me to do her side walks and setps to her house also. I started with the side walks used some bleach and a turbo nozzle they turned out great.but thennn....She had carpet on her concrete steps that when she had it removed there was red paint and glue left on the concrete.Long story short she wants me to remover the paint and glue. i tried to hit it with the turbo nozzle at 3000psi got some gule off but i dont want to scar the concrete. is there anything that i can buy that is local that will eat that stuff off the concrete? please let me know

THANKS,
WES
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Greetings:

If you have a chemist around you that is familiar with some basic chems, ask him to mix dimethyl glutatrate , d-limonene, Hexanedioic acid and dimethyl succinate.

I am not a chemist, I just looked at the mix formulation that the chemist gave me, all particular MSDS for this mix are listed on line I am sure.

I had this and a similar mix made for less then $50.00 a gallon, 110 gallons were the minimum we could buy. As well you can make this formulation food grade with some minor adjustments.

My mix is exothermic for a decent amount of time and does a great job with glues, epoxies, paint and ink. You will need to adjust your mix according to your needs cause like I said before, this mix was made for me specifically for a project we worked on.

I do not know the disposal parameters for this mix, as we had it characterized and drummed up by a haz-waste company, even though we were told that in this mix haz disposal was not needed, just better to be safe.


 
Russ Johnson said:
When I moved into a house 17 years ago, the previous owners had astroturf glued to the front porch. we peeled the turf, which left the glue lines. I used high caustics, butyls, methylene chloride, thinner, everything on it and it wouldn't budge. I ended up lightly sandblasting it, and, with a fresh coat of porch paint, it looked great.
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Sandblaster sounds great! I had a neighbor pull up some turf in a garage. I helped him lay new turf after three weekends of futile scraping, soaking, and everything else he could think of!
 
thanks alot. i bought some paint stripper (nasty acid) im going to see if this will work
 
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