How to remove latex carpet glue?

[Steven J Corpstein]

Anyone have an easy sure fire way to remove latex indoor/outdoor carpet glue from concrete stairs? It doesn't scrape worth a 'pooh' and grinding with a disk grinder just heats it up and smears it around. Any luck with a particular kind of chemical stripper?

[Dan Stuewe]

I know you mentioned that you tried to scrape it, but I just wanted to pass on my recent experiance. When I was preping our dining room floor for the wood floor we recently installed, I used a floor scraper that I think is marketed to be used to remove vinyl tile. It uses a very sharp blade (borderline razor). You do need to find the right angle to get the adhesive off, but once I started I had nice long ribbons of old glue. One note, I don't know what type of glue was used, but it seemed pretty flexible for being probably around 20 years old.

Anyway, that's what worked for me.

[Tom Kollien]

Try using denatured alcohol or lacquer thinner either one should work. Should be able to get them at a big box store.