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What seems to be the best way to remove large amounts of flooring. In this case its 51,000 +/- sq feet of flooring tile in a grocery store. Its not ceramic but glue down vynal kind. I need to get the floor as clean as possible for the new flooring that will be a mixture of carpet and ceramic tile. Its being converted to a department store. I am going tomorrow to look at the job at the prebid meeting with the GC, and just want to have an idea as to what i should be looking at equiptment wise. The store is empty and I can bring in diesel powered machinery if needed. There is also internal walls, coolers, freezers, etc to remove.
You can rent a machine that will remove the tile with ease and the machine will remove most of the mastic on the first pass. It'll cut your time in half.
Sunbelt rentals can get me a machine like this, and I will definatly use it if it is the best method. I am mostly concerned about the mastic that is left over more than anything. I want to leave the floor as clean as possible.
Well see how clean they want the flooring surface.
You can rent a floor buffer machine with grinder heads that will get all the the mastic removed. Or some machines, like the terminator, will get a lot of the mastic up.
i tend to use a bobcat with a super scraper attachment it can do about 15,000 square feet a day but if you can get your hands on a terminator machine they work just as well but might be a little harder to find. If you absolutely need to get all the mastic up shot blasting is the way to go and that can do about 20,000 sqaure feet a day of mastic.
I am going down to take a look at the area either tomorrow or tues, and make a list of notes and questions for the GC while I am there. They do plan on putting down carpet in much of the area not tile, and it is the commercial glue down type, so I would assume that the more thats removed the better.
If you look at thebluebook.com and research south florida for demo jobs the job comes up with a full set of drawings online to view. The GC is pinnacle constructors.
Went and looked at the site, the old grocery store is totally there. As in they packed up the food, electronics, and personal effects and left. Every display, checkout counter, safe, appliance, mixer, refer case, etc is still there! The floor is what I thought it was, glue down 12X12 tiles. 70%+ mastic removal is ok also.
Do you asbestos sampling report?
How will you qualify 70% mastic removal?
Is the glue black cutback adhesive or yellow glue?
We just bought an attachment for our skidsteer, not a disc but a scrapeing set-up. We bought it at Aramsco.
Check it out, cost about $4,500.00
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