Max Strip Floor Adhesive Remover - 1 Gallon - Professional Fast Working Gel Strips Multiple Layers - Removes Tough Mastics and Construction Adhesives - No Harsh Odor Leaves Surface Clean

I needed to remove decades-old adhesive from a terrazzo floor. I asked ChatGPT for advice. AI offered several suggestions, but none of them had 4-5 star reviews, so I searched Amazon. This product came up and looked simple to use, so I purchased it. The gel made it easy to apply, and it cleaned up well. I would purchase again.

I was a little skeptical from the not-so-stellar reviews but this stuff works. I guess with DIY there's lots of room for user error or specific differences in application. More folks should specify what they tried this on.My application was removing 33 year old vinyl flooring adhesive from a concrete slab. I'd done this in other room 25 years ago and it was a chore. I had some left over Jasco methylene chloride remover which just wasn't up to the task. Plus it is toxic and took three days to exhaust fan the stink out of a 2' x 3' test area.I tried this product on a similar sample size last night. I gave it about 2 hours to work and what a relief, most of the adhesive/goo mix scraped up like butter. I will have to reapply over about 15% of the area where either some of the area had thicker adhesive or I had applied the remover too thinly.EDIT: I visited the manufacturer's site to glean this; if you want to leave this on for more than one hour, it's best to cover it with, say, plastic to keep it from drying out which impeded penetration. But the best discovery was when, after scraping, I was wiping up with a sponge. After the first go-over with the sponge I reversed it to the scrubby side and all the thin adhesive that didn't scrape up dissolved in the slurry and was easily sponged up!

I bought this product to remove some leftover adhesive from old peel & stick tiles that were on concrete floor. At first try, it seemed to work well. I was scraping up what looked like the adhesive and stuck-on dirt and feeling excited. But once the floors dried from the soap/water rinse, they were still sticky. I’m beyond disappointed that I spent $60 and hours of my limited project time on this product.

I used this remover on CARPET TAPE residue that was on a painted surface. The remover was allowed to sit for the half hour required in the directions. NEARLY all the glue came up with the remover...a sticky film remained. Rather than reapply the remover I chose to use Goo Gone to remove the remaining FILM of glue because it worked well and I didn't like the mess of the remover. (The internet recommended Goo Gone for the entire job, but I tried it and it didn't work. That's why I bought this product.)Just know this is not an easy process. It's rather messy so have a lot of rags handy. As the remover lifts the glue it turns into a kind of jelly that is still sticky and gooey. I used a paint scraper to lift the jelly onto a rag so I could dispose of it that way. Newspaper works too.

I was surprised how well this works. It softened the glue within a few hours after spreading it over the floor with a roller. Then removed the softened glue with a floor scraper. It turned what looked like an contractor job into a DIY.

This product was a disappointment for what I needed it for. But it might work for someone else. Just didn't work for me.

I have a basement cement floor that has black mastic from late 1970’s troweled over the entire floor. Around the perimeter there is approx 2 ft band of modern yellow colored floor glue that had the carpet pad I just removed glued down. The mastic was from the original vinyl/lenoleum flooring that was removed at some point before the yellow glue was used to glue down carpet pad. I have done about 10x15 ft area so far and it’s working good. I coated the area and tarped for 1.5 hours and could scrape off all the mastic and all but about 10% of the yellow glue (where it was thicker) which I will do on a second round. It’s working better than I hoped. Having a good scraper helps. I mopped with hot water for cleanup but I think I may use shop vac I going forward. This stuff has an odor but it’s not bad and I had no issues with breathing or eyes watering etc. I’d give it an A+ at removing the black mastic and an A at removing the yellow floor glue. I wish I only had mastic to remove as the yellow glue has carpet pad stuck to it which is probably why that’s harder to get off in one round.

This stuff is amazing. We recently remodeled our bathroom and removed the old linoleum. I was afraid it would damage the lauan but didn’t. Worked quick and made glue removal a breeze