We had water damage in the basement so the old vinyl tiles had to be ripped up. This left sticky glue all over the cement floor and little mounds of it so the floor is now bumpy and the dried glued areas are yellow. Is there a way to remove this glue - both the dried areas and the still sticky areas? Would a handheld sander work or the sandpaper would be useless once the sticky glue cakes on it after two passes?
This also brings me to the second question. To go the most inexpensive route for the floor (it's an unfinished basement), we're thinking of using that epoxy paint stuff. I've been seeing ones that specifically say for garage floors and some - not many - that say for basement floors. Is there actually a difference; aren't both cement floors? It's just there's many more options with ones that say for garage floors so if it makes no difference, we'll have more choices in price and color.
Also, the basement has like 50 large storage boxes and bins plus some old furniture down there. When the company ripped out the old tiles they basically piled everything to the center of the basement. If were putting down tile or even carpet, you'd start at one wall and when you got to the center you'd move the boxes onto the area you just tiled/carpeted and continue on. But with the epoxy paint, can you do sections at a time since we'd have to paint say one side up to where the pile of bins are, wait for that to thoroughly dry so the bins could be moved onto it, then epoxy the rest of the floor - would you be able to see some type of seam from where you stopped and started or would it just blend in once dry? It would be too much to lug all those bins and furniture upstairs to do the whole floor at once.
Thank you!
This also brings me to the second question. To go the most inexpensive route for the floor (it's an unfinished basement), we're thinking of using that epoxy paint stuff. I've been seeing ones that specifically say for garage floors and some - not many - that say for basement floors. Is there actually a difference; aren't both cement floors? It's just there's many more options with ones that say for garage floors so if it makes no difference, we'll have more choices in price and color.
Also, the basement has like 50 large storage boxes and bins plus some old furniture down there. When the company ripped out the old tiles they basically piled everything to the center of the basement. If were putting down tile or even carpet, you'd start at one wall and when you got to the center you'd move the boxes onto the area you just tiled/carpeted and continue on. But with the epoxy paint, can you do sections at a time since we'd have to paint say one side up to where the pile of bins are, wait for that to thoroughly dry so the bins could be moved onto it, then epoxy the rest of the floor - would you be able to see some type of seam from where you stopped and started or would it just blend in once dry? It would be too much to lug all those bins and furniture upstairs to do the whole floor at once.
Thank you!