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I ripped off the carpet which was installed on top of the slate stone flooring sometime back. I saw a layer of "glue-like"
I assume it is for the carpet to glue down, which it did not even do its job (it was very lose).
Question is How do I scrape off this layer of glue, given that it is very sticky to the stone but NOT at all to the carpet.
Tool rental places probably rent concrete grinders for big jobs like refinishing concrete floors and then you can use a sander that get get into corners.
Floor Grinder
Concrete Sander
You can probably rent one or both of these, depending on the amount of glue. If it's just spotty you can probably use the hand sander.
Like I said, these are for professionally prepare floors for concrete finishing. If it is thin you might try belt sander or palm sander, and buy a sampling of sand papers and see which works best.
Belt Sander
Palm Sander
There is no reason to glue down engineered hardwood floor to an underlayment. This is just for initial aesthetics. The glue will NEVER last (in a residential setting). The only thing the glue will do is give you fits and make your install seem tighter. Within weeks or months the glue will come loose and you will have a floating floor.
Nothing wrong with a floating floor. But the fact is you should be gluing the pieces together, not under them. The big boxes sell the generic engineered wood flooring glue. Buy that and glue your pieces together, not under them. The only time I have seen gluing to the floor to be an option is thin flooring onto concrete for commercial purposes. The only thing I would glue down in someone home is vinyl sheets/squares.
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The mesh was a heat activated glue strip to join carpet usually found at doorways and if the room was wider than the roll 2 pieces are butted together and a iron that heats the glue and carpet is used to melt the glue and make a seam. Some of the heated glue sticks to the floor but it is used for the splice. Most places use 4" wide but I prefer 6" as it holds better. This stuff releases with heat a heat gun is what I use but a hair dryer on high heat low air flow may be hot enough. A razor scraper will shave and left over glue, and a bit of heat makes it softer (think hot glue gun) for the type of glue used.