Ok. I'll try to keep this simple. The facts are... 55 year old block house (block including the interior walls) built on a slab. VCT tile is through the whole house, it's stuck down with the cut back glue. Both most likely contain asbestos.
We've got a very limited budget, and we were just going to pop up the old nasty vct and prime and paint the floor. This is where I've hit a brick wall... After taking up the tile in about half the house we went looking for paint, then I was told by several paint stores no paint would ever stick to that cutback glue.
Now I have seriously spent 15-20 hours over the past few days researching forums, products, and how to videos. My options seem to be this...
1. Shot blast (too expensive)
2 Grind it clean (grinding asbestos is frowned upon in most societies)
3. Encapsulate it with a skim coat of SLC (like ardex feather finish)
4. Just prime and epoxy it as planned and hope for the best
Now if I had he money I would just have someone come tile the whole house for me.... But I don't have the pesos for that.
I believe my best option is to go the encapsulation rout and skim coat it, get a concrete primer on it, and then epoxy it. I need some professionals thoughts.
What I've tried...
1. Scraping = nothing
2. Washing with hot soapy water = nothing
3. I got some adhesive remover from Home Depot = best results so far. I just tested a small 2'x2' area. It dissolved some of it. But took several coats of the chemical, filled the room with fumes. It's not practical to do the entire house because it took FOREVER and still did not get it clean enough to call it good and clean.
Hopefully someone here has done this before and can give me some advice or at the least comments... Please help... I'm desperate! Hahaha. I just want to move myself and my stuff back into the bed room.
This is not a $100,000 home, I just need something to cover up this nasty black floor that will last about 5-10 years.
Any thoughts?!?! The cheaper the better.
Thanks in advance!
We've got a very limited budget, and we were just going to pop up the old nasty vct and prime and paint the floor. This is where I've hit a brick wall... After taking up the tile in about half the house we went looking for paint, then I was told by several paint stores no paint would ever stick to that cutback glue.
Now I have seriously spent 15-20 hours over the past few days researching forums, products, and how to videos. My options seem to be this...
1. Shot blast (too expensive)
2 Grind it clean (grinding asbestos is frowned upon in most societies)
3. Encapsulate it with a skim coat of SLC (like ardex feather finish)
4. Just prime and epoxy it as planned and hope for the best
Now if I had he money I would just have someone come tile the whole house for me.... But I don't have the pesos for that.
I believe my best option is to go the encapsulation rout and skim coat it, get a concrete primer on it, and then epoxy it. I need some professionals thoughts.
What I've tried...
1. Scraping = nothing
2. Washing with hot soapy water = nothing
3. I got some adhesive remover from Home Depot = best results so far. I just tested a small 2'x2' area. It dissolved some of it. But took several coats of the chemical, filled the room with fumes. It's not practical to do the entire house because it took FOREVER and still did not get it clean enough to call it good and clean.
Hopefully someone here has done this before and can give me some advice or at the least comments... Please help... I'm desperate! Hahaha. I just want to move myself and my stuff back into the bed room.
This is not a $100,000 home, I just need something to cover up this nasty black floor that will last about 5-10 years.
Any thoughts?!?! The cheaper the better.
Thanks in advance!
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