Remove Adhesive from a Wood Floor

In this video, we share how we removed that nasty, gummy, terrible black adhesive from our wood floors that had been used to glue the linoleum flooring down decades ago!!! We rented the Diamabrush Wood Tool from Home Depot, and it got the job done! This video is not sponsored by anyone!!! We were just extremely happy with the results and wanted to share our experience with you!!!

[@sondog7324]

I learned a lot. You showed me I'm spinning my wheels and what to use. thank you

[@Jackson-fk4nm]

Thank you for the video. We just did a full room scraping the stubborn adhesives manually on our knees, it was painful and so slow. Wish we saw your video before we did that. Now with our second room we will take your advice and do what you did!

[@MM-yh5sp]

How did you manually scrape the floor? What tools and products did you use? I need help with small areas the machine did not remove.

[@wits729]

Man oh man I don't see how you made it threw a full room, I'm struggling with a small dining room that's had linoleum on it for 50+ years.

[@wits729]

​@@MM-yh5sp I'm using Goo Gone and hand scrapers. Mine still needs to be grinded afterwards.

[@jkarasta1]

Great video! Exactly what I need to know with no fluff. Perfect

[@ehsanwedee5305]

Amazing videos! Super helpful. We just purchased the house in the kitchen. Has hardwood underneath the vinyl flooring. We noticed there is a lot of glue. Once you're ready to rip it all everything off we will rent one of these bad boys. Happy holidays!

[@frankcastillojr6575]

Best Video so far on how to scrape old glue from wood flooring....Thank you!!!!!!

[@FriendM2010]

👍👍👍👍👍. No easy way. Elbow grease and patience. Well done!

[@millerjoshua5080]

Thankyou . I just checked out that tool for concrete and wondered if it would work on hardwood.

[@captainunload]

Good video and pleasant narration.

[@spinydaisy3128]

Thank you!

[@Uvoted4this]

To keep the warming glue from gumming up could you throw sand down to mix with it?

[@stephrose2275]

Thanks for your video , it's very helpful 👍

[@markishamayes3272]

Thank you so much. Wish I would’ve watched this a year ago. But better late than never lol

[@jaybarber3840]

Thank you for this ! Literally saved us our backs😂

[@spinydaisy3128]

I had an IG friend tell me, and I was so very thankful for the advice! I thought I was going to have to spend days and days hand scraping!!!

[@abigailchild1057]

Is this a hard wood floor or soft wood. ?? We have a pine floor with black mastic and was told that tool might chop it up? what was yours? thank you.

[@spinydaisy3128]

The floors are fir, which is a type of soft wood. There was one spot where the fir flooring was damaged. Of course, it was right in the middle of the room! I filled it with tinted wood filler and no one seems to really notice.

[@unrelentingchemistry6877]

asbestos flying everywhere

[@spinydaisy3128]

*everywhere 😉

[@unrelentingchemistry6877]

@@spinydaisy3128 lol

[@christywilson4848]

Our floor guy wouldn’t refinish our one room that had asbestos and he said the black glue is asbestos lol

[@christywilson4848]

I hope this works for us we used a heat gun and still have so much left after hours of trying to remove. Our floor guy says he will try redoing but it gums up machine, if not I’m going to try your method! Thank you for video. Well I can’t attach the picture 😄

[@miketheyunggod2534]

Carpet tacks and staples only. Who would put glue on hardwood? That’s insane!

[@spinydaisy3128]

I know! Right???

[@MM-yh5sp]

Hi! How did you get the remaining adhesive off? Thanks for the video!

[@spinydaisy3128]

We used the same machine, but put the sanding pads on next. We used smaller electric orbital sanders for the edges.

[@MM-yh5sp]

@@spinydaisy3128 Thank you so much! We returned the machine so I'll use the orbital! Thanks again!

[@baltazarsantos5260]

Does this work on concrete floor?

[@xcopyttc]

good video, thanks

[@gorda1028]

Hello I am currently removing adhesive to put down a peel and stick floor. My question is do you think we have to completely remove the black layer to put down the floor?

[@TheMoomba19]

Hi Spiny Daisy - I'm interested if you had the material tested for asbestos before you started to remove it. I am about to start removing subflooring from my son's home (he just bought it - first home and I'm helping him) and I had the particle board, felt and the insulation between the floor joists tested. It all came back negative. However, I still wore a P100 when I began. The first thing I spotted beneath the felt (which was just below the particle board) was a white powder (possibly dried mastic or glue?) that appeared to only be in spotty areas but am now wondering if that could be asbestos. I know one can only be 100% certain after lab testing but have you ever run into something like this?

[@spinydaisy3128]

We were fortunate enough to not have asbestos in our glue. From what I have found from research is that most mastic that has asbestos is black in color. Maybe this is a positive note that the substance is white. Of course, you can never be sure unless you test it.

[@TheMoomba19]

@@spinydaisy3128 The flooring looks black to me but computers can certainly tint colors. Anyway, hope everything turned out ok with your project. Thanks and take care.

[@ehsanwedee5305]

@@TheMoomba19 I just purchased a house in Pennsylvania . There is vinyl flooring in our kitchen, underneath that is a really thin particle board, and underneath that are old newspaper from 1982 and then there's glue. The glue is blackish. I'm afraid that may have asbestos... What do I do?

[@nosedrain1594]

@spinydaisy3128, your glue looks black to me …

[@kristikinloch9727]

What type of sanding attachments did you use on the rental machine?

[@spinydaisy3128]

The attachment is called ‘Diamabrush Wood Tool’. It attaches to a buffer. Home Depot rents both the Wood Tool and the Buffer. They were very helpful with all the questions I had about how to use the equipment!!!

[@radroofer]

Thank you here all this time I was cussing the idiots for what they did to a beautiful floor

[@teresanoel4035]

Do you know if your wood floor was treated or untreated

[@spinydaisy3128]

I am not sure what you are asking! The wood floor was the original flooring circa 1921. Are you asking whether it had an finish or just bare wood?

[@BlueOriginAire]

@2:42..... that is some beautiful heartpine begging to be restored. 🥳🤩😱

[@redrockpaco]

Yeah but how would one do the edges?

[@spinydaisy3128]

This is a great question! I am glad you asked. We used an oscillating tool with the scrapper blade attachment. We bought our tool from Harbor Freight for $20. We actually burned up the motor in one of them, but I didn’t mind because I didn’t spend a ton on the tool to start with!

[@GaltsG]

My home inspector said the glue on top of my hardwood floors might contain asbestos.

[@leonaearly5503]

If built prior to about 1980 then possibly so.

[@tiffanyfoster5783]

So basically sand the crap out of it over and over

[@ruffus4life]

lol of course your in flip flops

[@OMNZero]

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[@spinydaisy3128]

OMNZero Great idea!!!