With old flooring you have to consider asbestos in the tile and the mastic.
A bid more of a concern than allergies.
George Castleberry
1954 BN1-L/157155
AHCUSA
----- Original Message -----
From: Susan and Mark Miller <marknsuz@pacbell.net>
To: Brian Kennedy <kennedybc@mediaone.net>
Cc: shop talk shop talk <Shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: Basement floor
>
> You can rent or buy pneumatic chipper. They have them at harbor freight,
and
> probably someplace else that sells decent tools. For a single floor I'd
> recommend renting a better one. But this is good to look at:
> http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=37073
>
>
> Happy scraping,
> Mark Miller
>
>
>
> Brian Kennedy wrote:
>
> > I have an old (1911) basement floor with the old 9" tiles. I want to
remove
> > the tiles and paint the floor. Current advice is to rent a machine to
remove
> > the old tiles but that still leaves the glue. One suggestion is to just
> > paint over the glue with a latex epoxy paint. The paint store guy says
the
> > oil based epoxy paints will react with the glue and cause problems.
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