Trying to get this horrible old carpet up from around a pool. So far I've done 2 metres in 2 hours :-(
Such a boring job and it's stuck like poo to a blanket!
Who makes a tile-carpet adhesive?!
Sorry, just had to get that out of my system. Rather you than me mate that's horrible work. Looks worse than difficult lino as it looks like it rips easier. Somebody stuck that down well eh?!
Get the jigger pick out and just SLC the mess after lol
Fire did cross my mind at one point!
Ive found the best way is to divide it up in to strips using my breaker (yes the stupidly big overkill one that is taller than me nearly) and then get the carpet stripper and just ram the crap out of the strips of carpet and they come up slowly. I've done around 70% of it now so the worst is done. Got home nice and dusty had to have a shower and now going to sink a couple of beers!
Hey all
I have just found out that Chris Emery from Schlüter-Systems Ltd will be at Tileflair in Reading on Wednesday 15th May for a Q&A session!
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