  Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 916 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.93.137 |
Heyo - is eap still round somewhere ? | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10535 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.37.236 |
I know where he lives. We should all meet up for tea and crumpettes sometime. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 917 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.117.32 |
He doesnt post anymore ? hm. Yeah, Ill email you Sport. | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6742 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.136.149.133 |
(sigh) Let the healing begin. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 925 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.27.215 |
This place is like an elementary school, where all the kids surround two guys chanting "fight fight fight!"....heh. itsJeff - you want me to go back to being Satan765 ? | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6747 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.136.149.133 |
That was YOU? Man, do I owe Kathleen an apology. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 926 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 68.40.44.168 |
Whaaaa ? Does she hate me know TOO ? Damn.... | ||
Jim Member Username: Jim Post Number: 977 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.27.192 |
Well, I love you.. or is that just inappropriate. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 927 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.27.108 |
lmao @jim btw - I promise I'll get my damn backyard in order so it dont look like ass while youre showing your house. Ive been stuck inside fixing my basement for 3 months. Black asbestos mastic-atcha... | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5818 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.57.57.12 |
That stuff is great! I had it on the floor of my master bedroom. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 928 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.27.108 |
HOW DID YOU REMOVE IT !!!!!?!?!?! | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6748 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.136.149.133 |
You're making quite an assumption there, Mauser. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 929 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.27.108 |
About the asbestos ? Woah, Im getting lost in my own thread.. Hey - I saw you the other day crossing Woodward headed for CM to watch the lunchtime concert - I yelled but was already to far down the road. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5819 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.57.57.12 |
How did I remove it? We scraped as much off as possible, then I rented a big pad sander from Home Depot, and went to town on it. It ate through pads, gumming them up like crazy. It cost me about $100 in pads, but the crap is all off the floor. Good luck. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 931 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.27.200 |
Phew - nasty. Ive been using soy bean oil, so far so good - but whatamess. The black mastic from my houses build era is actually water based so its immune to traditional solvents. http://franmar.com/ This stuff is working really good, but not quite as easily (in my case) as it says on the website. So far its the only thing that dissolves this evil crap. Off topic ? Actually this is some of the stuff I wanted ask eap about. But I guess the "Ask eap Show" isnt on the radio anymore. lol | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5820 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.57.57.12 |
As for being water based, we found that too... A wire brush, and lots of water can also be used with a small amount of sucess. We actually switch to water over comercially avialable solvents, seeing as the sucess rate wasn't that much different. Give good old water a shot Mauser. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5821 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.57.57.12 |
Here's a few shots for those reading who don't know what we're talking about.  After we ripped up the carpet, we found Linoleum tiles on the floor (white).  The asbestos laden mastic was used to secure the tiles to the hardwood floor.  Solvents, scrapers and a nylon brush were used to get off as much as we could. As I said we gave up on solvents and switched to water with almost identical results.  We got it to the stage in the photo above, and went with the sander to get the remains.  As soon as the floor was done, we switched to the ceiling... Old-house-atcha! | ||
Detroitteacher Member Username: Detroitteacher Post Number: 586 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 152.163.100.8 |
Those look like my floors prior to my sanding the hell out of them. Didn't know it was asbestos, though. It was gummy, made a horrid mess of the sanding pad. Looked like some type of varnish, though (I have a 1920 house). I learned something new today! Now I am going to die from inhaling all that asbestos laden crap! | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 933 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.27.127 |
 Heres what I am starting with. Entire basement, the house is about 52X52 feet square so thats the area Im dealing with. I have a leak issue I am struggling with (a whole utha story) and the water caused the mastic to let go of the tiles. But not water or even scalding hot water quite loosened this crap..So I shucked all the tiles and Im attempting to get down to the concrete.  Heres the soy bean oil - it seems to be working well, seeing how nothing else has.  Mmmmmmmmm....Poisonous !  This is about 1/8th the area that needs to be cleaned, Im trying to go in sections so I dont get overwhelmed (more than I am) | ||
Detroitteacher Member Username: Detroitteacher Post Number: 587 Registered: 06-2006 Posted From: 152.163.100.8 |
Mine didn't look like it had tile on it at all, at any point...maybe it wasn't asbestos stuff and it was really just some funky old varnish. I wish you luck. Took me 2 years to finally get everything the way I want it and I still haven't done the kitchen or 2 bedrooms. I did gut the bathroom (which used to be a jelly closet), and stripped 70 years of paint off of all the wood. It was a nightmare, but it looks great now. | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6749 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.136.149.133 |
I should have guessed when you started this thread, it was to ask eap's help with your mastik. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5825 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.57.57.12 |
52 x 52 would blow... We did maybe 15 x 10, it and it took several months. Best of luck, I hope your concrete is at least semi-level. | ||
Itsjeff Member Username: Itsjeff Post Number: 6750 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.136.149.133 |
Eap just called and asked me to point out a few things: Mauser and Andrew, your problems are not the same and will be resolved differently. Andrew's mastic is water-based, Mauser's is a solvent. Andrew's would have been fixed by pouring hot water & soap and letting it soak, then mop it up. It takes about three applications. Mauser, there's only one product that will work for your problem. It's called, (I swear) "Old Hard Adhesive Remover." It comes in a bright orange can and you can find it in the hardware section at Meijer. It's stinky and caustic (and be sure to shut off any pilot light down there) but works quickly. (Message edited by itsjeff on September 03, 2006) | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10547 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.246.37.236 |
AIW, That doesn't appear to be your wife in that ceiling picture, fess up! | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 935 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.27.172 |
Coolio - thanks for tha eap via itsjeff info. SS - I was thinking the same thing. heh. | ||
Aiw Member Username: Aiw Post Number: 5827 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 24.57.57.12 |
No, that's just some neighborhood prostitute we hired to help scrape the ceiling. | ||
Toolbox Member Username: Toolbox Post Number: 979 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 69.14.126.173 |
It is legal over there so that's cool. Hope she was worth the money. | ||
Mauser765 Member Username: Mauser765 Post Number: 938 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 4.229.69.245 |
The prostitutes in your area are much better looking than the ones in my area...hahaha. |
