Help!: bitchemen

[jamie]

Hi

can someone please give me advise as to how to remove bitchemen (i think thats how to spell it) from a concrete floor? I thought i could remove it with a heat gun and a big scraper but it's stuck firmly to the concrete floor. Should i try to remove it or just self level over the top?

[pjtiler]

Hi

can someone please give me advise as to how to remove bitchemen (i think thats how to spell it) from a concrete floor? I thought i could remove it with a heat gun and a big scraper but it's stuck firmly to the concrete floor. Should i try to remove it or just self level over the top?

we,ll need a bit more info bud

[garythetiler]

the last time i removed bitchumen adhesive from a screeded floor i ground it off with a concrete plane took a while and was extremely dusty even wth hoover attached

[pjtiler]

if your tiling the floor ??
just go over it

[whitebeam]

Tile over I,ve had no probs

[garythetiler]

Tile over I,ve had no probs

if you have ufh you must remove bitumen as when the heating is switched on the bitumen boils and the tiles will delaminate from the floor also if you are tiling outside you should un couple the floor tiles from the substrate tiling over bitumen is far from being problem free

[whitebeam]

The bicht I normaly tile onto is the thin vinyl type nothing heavy

[Raja]

Knew some one who had bichumen poured over their car

Insurance company gave him a new one as the dealership could not get it off
Apparantly it is a buggar once it is dry to get out