Any Ideas On Removing 3m Spraymount

[David S Graves]

Any helpful person out there got any experience or failing that ideas about removing 3m Spraymount from a 100% synthetic carpet - a tenant has allowed kids to spray it on newspaper on the floor but they have oversprayed the edges and dirt has adhered! Any experiences with this would be useful and may save me time experimenting with the usual suspects - there are large areas (several square feet) of it so whatever I use needs to be pretty effective and work quickly... 3m say white spirit but I think thats for hard surfaces and I have pc and solution problem solvers

thanks guys!


this is the msds for the product
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/pdf/msds/3m/3M_Spray_Mount_Adhesive.pdf

 

[Jim Neal]

I'd try acetone first, indirectly via terry towel of course

 

[Jim Neal]

Ah there you go, just downloaded the MSDS... the carrier solvent used is acetone so there's a clue

 

[David S Graves]

Jim - yes thanks I saw that - I have acetone but do I have enough? anyway cheers for the advice

 

[John Bolton]

David,

Eco POG applied via a course cloth should take it off fairly easily.

 

[Richard lake]

What about spotslove

 

[John Bolton]

Richard,

Spot Solve will remove it but a little slower than Eco POG.

 

[David S Graves]

John - thanks yes EcoPog would be one of my 'usual suspects' but it is a big area I am 'clearing up' and I tend to think of using eco-pog fairly sparingly - 28 pounds per litre for ecopog and 7 pounds for a litre of acetone - I know which is my favourite for this job at least - I will report back when done

cheers

 

[John Dane]

Spraymount??

 

[John Bolton]

John,

It's a spray-tack adhesive, initially designed as an alternative to traditional Cow Gum for paste-ups.

 

[John Dane]

Cheers John,,,,I googled it....never heard of it.

 

[David S Graves]

Yes as luck would have it the only synthetic carpet in a 5 bed house - went straight in with acetone - it was first hot day of spring and I wish id worn a mask as well as gloves - could not find one on van till job fished (obviously) anywaysabout it worked an absolute treat and customer was amazed that it looked so white again - yes it was a white carpet in a kids bedroom - go figure! So not sure if I would be so liberal with acetone on a woolly floor!

 

[Andrew Bines]

Took carpet glue ( spray adhesive) off a carpet today, eco pog shifted it easily.

 

[John Bolton]

That's the way Andrew - Eco POG on a course cloth and it simply wipes off!

 

[Jim Neal]

Well done David, feels good to walk in and smack the problem in the face just like that doesn't it

Incidentally unless you invest in a very expensive respirator system you won't really do much about the smell from acetone whilst you're working with it. But the thing about acetone is it's an extremely 'volatile' solvent - it evaporates at one hell of a rate which is why it feels cold when you get it on your skin - the liquid itself isn't cold, it is just producing a very fast cooling effect, like accelerating the effects of sweating!

Anyway with a couple of windows creating a through-draught it will very quickly evaporate and the smell will go. I have found it is the cloth you're using that holds excess acetone that creates the lingering smell - just fling the cloth out of the room when finished with it!