I’ve repaired lifting carpet tiles (squares) by removing the old tiles, cleaning the old glue with warm soapy water and a scraper. This works fine if you have a tile to replace the old one. My problem is that a client wants me to glue tiles that are lifting at the corners without removing them. Should I try to clean the glue off in the lifting corners and then glue the corners down or should I just go ahead and glue the corners without any clean up. I’m concerned cleaning the glue where the tiles have lifted will compromise the glue next to where I’m cleaning. Any help would be appreciated.
Greg Kurtz
Edited 5/1/2006 12:03 pm ET by G3
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Greetings Greg, as a first time poster Welcome to Breaktime.
This post, in response to your question, will bump the thread through the 'recent discussion' listing again.
Perhaps it will catch someone's attention that can help you with advice.
Cheers
half of good living is staying out of bad situations
Thanks for keeping this alive. I seem to have made this problem go away. I didn't clean the glue. It would have been difficult without completely removing the tiles. I was able to insert some glue under the lifting edges but they were curling quite a bit and didn't want to stay down, so I put sandbags on a piece of plywood over top of the carpet tiles and left them over night. The next morning the tiles we flat and adhered to the concrete floor. Problem solved because the customer didn't want them removed and I didn't have to.
Yep, multiple ways to skin a cat and good use of ingenuity.
That's for replying back to clarify the issue.
Cheers
half of good living is staying out of bad situations