How To Remove Yellow Carpet Glue or AdhesiveDoing The Impossible - Removing That Carpet Glue From A Cement Floor.If you have ever tried to remove that yellow carpet glue from under a wall-to-wall carpet or rug that you have removed from your floor, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You know how difficult it is. I have tried just about every chemical that is available at Lowe''s. You would think that someone there would know exactly what to do to remove it, but nobody does....(I've asked) and if they do, they aren't talking. I have just gone through this dilema and you won't believe it, but I have found a fix. Actually, it was not I who found the fix, it was my neighbor, who I would refer to as "extremely intelligent." After trying many different chemicals and cleaners, including Goo-Gone (I really thought it would work), and even after trying to use a heavy duty sander (wrongly recommended to me by a carpet store) that I had to rent from a machine rental place, I came to the conclusion that it was going to be impossible to remove the carpet glue from my floor.
But I was wrong. My neighbor came over with what looks like a hoe but it is really a flat scraper. She told me to boil some water and throw it on the floor. After letting it sit there for a few minutes, under the hot boiling water, say, 5 or 10 minutes, the glue becomes softer and more pliable....and only then, one is able to scrape it off. No chemical would remove it....no machine would remove it (it just made the coarse sandpaper one goey, sticky mess), but hot water did the trick! I then, used the $17.00 heavy-duty hand blade scrapers that I bought at Lowe's (I would say that this was the only great purchase that I made). I thought to myself, I have to share this with everybody, with someone else who is trying to do the impossible, who right now must be yanking their hair out in frustration, or banging their head against the wall. Believe me, don't waste your time and money buy going to the hardware stores to buy more chemicals because they won't work.Don't Bang Your Head Against The Wall...
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Lowes --- a national home supply center --- sells multiple styles and colors of carpet tiles. Lowes may also provide some guidance on installation, although it is very informal. Like any homeowner project, laying carpet tiles will take some preparation and planning to ensure that the carpet goes down correctly and will remain a fixture in your home for a long time. Set the carpet tiles in a room next to where you will install them. Allow the tiles to sit for 24 hours so they acclimate to your home's interior environment. Clean the floor before laying the tiles; sweep or vacuum dirt from the floor. Patch holes with concrete filler or wood patch depending on your subfloor material. Measure the length and width of the room to determine its center. Use a chalk line to mark along your measurements to have guidelines for laying the carpet tile. Use a square to ensure the center corners snapped by the chalk line are at 90 degree angles. Re-measure and re-square if needed.
Lay four carpet tiles in each quadrant in the center of the room. Peel the backing from the tile and stick them carefully to the floor. Ensure the arrows on the bottom of the carpet tiles are pointing in the same direction. Surround the initial square of carpet tiles with another set of tiles. Attach the carpet tiles according to the directions in Step 5. Continue to lay carpet tiles by surrounding the initial square with additional tiles. Do this until you lay all the carpet tiles. Roll over the tiles with a weighted floor roller to ensure no air bubbles exist between any carpet tiles and the subfloor. If you have to cut floor tile, flip them over, mark them with a pen and use a utility knife to cut along the line. "The Big Book of Home How-To"; For home improvement projects or even building from the ground up, Lowe's Home Improvement is a good place to start. As their name implies, carpet tiles are squares of carpeting approximately 18 to 20 inches square, depending upon the manufacturer.
Self-adhesive vinyl tile was developed as an alternative to linoleum. The tiles are backed by factory-applied glue that is covered with an... How Does Interlocking Carpet Tile Work? How to Install No-Adhesive 2X2 Carpet Tiles How to Lay Linoleum Squares Adding a Bathroom to a Home How to Tile a Concrete Slab How to Tighten CarpetCompare EPDM Rubber Waterproofing Membrane for Underlayment in Low Price Weifang Luyang Waterproof Material Co., Ltd. US $0.9-4.9 500 Square Meters The hottest deals voted on by our community. Selected and verified by our team of deal editors.I’m going to preface by saying that shopping experience will vary by race/ethnicity/gender/age/location/time-of-day/mood/phases of the sun/alignment of jupiter and the stars…its all relative and you can have good/bad/other over the course of a lifetime. Statistics that speak to consumer satisfaction are skewed as the jobs of many at both organizations depend on their ability to sell the surveys they use to measure these statistics, making the information biased.
Shopping experience is subjective.To elaborate on Mike Jackson’s answer, the difference between Home Depot and Lowe’s is business strategy. Home Depot started re-structuring its business model in 2007–2009 (best seen in its annual reports) and by 2010 had a clear direction with Carol Tome as the CFO. She created several 5/10/15 year plans for Home Depot and its stock prediction based on some basic principles such as keeping things simple, incorporating technology/internet into shopping, and figuring out ways to cater to the needs of the customer.These strategies are reflective in the 2010–2015 annual statements, and can best be seen in their stock price (go to Google and type HD stock, then press MAX for timeframe). Starting in 2009 with a price of $18, Tome made predictions for its growth that were spot-on and sometimes better. This year will mark the first year she was incorrect (was predicted to hit 150 by the end of 2016, but new data suggests probably won’t hit that but we’ll wait until the end of the year)To then look at Lowe’s, their fiscal information, when placed alongside Home Depot’s shows a curious pattern.
If you look at Lowe’s stock as just a baseline to compare, it will show a value of $13 in 2009 and a similar trend in growth to today, with a final value of $80. Interestingly enough, I would predict Lowe’s stock to mirror Home Depot because they saw that Home Depot had success with its strategies and decided to implement the same changes.Bottom line, one wears vests, the other wears aprons, they both have the same types of practices. You can find different deals and different styles/values at each, and if you’re truly a frugal/bargain shopper your best bet is to shop both all the time based on what you need, but in the end you’ll be buying similar items and products.Take a look at the annual 10-K reports for both year by year, and google each one’s stock (HD & LOW), click max for the time frame, and you’ll see an identical graph with different financial values.Source: worked for Home Depot for several years, business-shopped Lowe’s many times, did a few projects on Home Depot during my MBA studies of financial statements.