Bean-e-doo Mastic Remover 1 Gallon by Franmar Chemical

Not sure what the issues have been with other users but let me share my experience. Home built in 1960, vinyl 9x9 tile glue with black mastic. Removed from one room and tried the scraping method which was messy and dusty, time consuming and had to rent a sander from HD which was not pricey but back breaking. Oh I also tried the iron, and Hydrogen Porixide as found on YT.I thought, my compulsive researcher that I am, "There has to be a better way!" after some hesitation and reading the reviews I rushed order a gallon of this Bean-eDoo.Wow! Yes, it's messy when you don't plan ahead but works great and it's safe for me and environment. You will need exactly what they recommend on YouTube videos, do your preparation. A squeegee, a sponge, bucket, cat litter and gloves. Pour on floor, let sit, squeegee desolved mastic into one area, pour cat litter and scoop up & place in trash. Sponge the remaining residue this is the messy part. Once you have rinsed down your floors of residue, you can prepare for leveling, red guard and lay your new tile. This is what I did with no problem.The smell is not bad, unless you are sensitive, same with skin exposure, but this product worked. Look forward to using paint remover as reviewed by another user. Have one more room to do and I will be using this product again and recommend it to friends. Plan ahead and have a process in place.

This product works great for loosening the glue. I had the peel and stick tiles and after I took them up, there was a lot of adhesive residue. The product works, but it's not as easy as some would say (at least for peel and stick tiles). I let it set 3 hours and then used a scrapper to scrape up the glue. It even removed the tile lines. I would definitely invest in a long handle floor scrapper to make this job a little easier. Make sure you get the one with the razor blade on the bottom, not the floor scrapper for scrapping up tile. I'm really glad I read all of the reviews and suggestions as the kitty litter worked great at getting up the oil. Make sure to watch the video. I then cleaned the floor with water and Dawn (again, glad I read the reviews as Dawn really does work at removing the oily residue.) I actually squirted Dawn on the floor and then added water with a scrub brush. This is a lot of work, but very happy with the results and I don't know of anything else that would have been easier. Also really like the fact that the product is non-toxic! Hope this helps. The reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because it's a lot more work than what it first appears to be by the description.

I have a 2001 searay 180 with some old ragged carpet that was starting to fall off on its own. The carpet was easy to remove, but the mastic stayed on the fiberglass. After hours of trying to sand off the mastic and burning through loads of sand paper, I gave up and started searching for a chemical solution.When I read all the other reviews for this product I was pretty skeptical, plus they all were reviews for removing black mastic from concrete, and I was trying to remove a light colored mastic from fiberglass. Either way, I thought it was worth a shot, so I bought a gallon.I applied generously over the who boat floor and waited about 3 hours. Then simply used some plastic putty knives and 80% of it came right off with little effort. I reapplied to get what the first coat didn't loosen up and waited a few more hours then scrapped again. Worked great!!!Cleanup was a little tricky. As others have mentioned the product leaves an extremely slippery film on the floor (I'm sure concrete is worse then fiberglass, as concrete is very porous). I wiped off what I could with paper towels, then scrubbed the whole floor with dish soap. Then pressure washed it just to be sure. Even after all that it still felt a little slippery, so I wiped the floor down with xylene, which did the trick.

This concept may work well for a small area but for a large area please reconsider!!This will turn the glue into essentially liquid tar. Anything it touches will be stained and clean up is very difficult. I used the recommended amount and it still barely came off. It ruined the walls and anything it touched. Go with the sander options.

No good. I bought into the hype and dropped $92 on two gallons of this stuff and now I feel like an idiot. I purchased it to remove some old carpet glue from my concrete patio and it did very little. I'm confident that any random liquid (coca-cola, milk, sweet tea) would've removed just as much glue as this stuff did. It was very effective, however, in producing a tremendous, greasy mess that will take me a week to clean up. Don't waste your money. It might be more effective on different glues and mastics than what was on my patio, but at $46 a gallon I feel it should be able to remove anything and cure dozens of human diseases. Yeah, I'm pretty upset.

This product works. It did remove the mastic (after two applications and hours and hours of scraping). The mess, however was epic. If a layer of sludgy motor oil all over your floor is not daunting to you, go for it. We also have the added conundrum of a slightly greasy floor. We used kitty litter, 2 scrub downs with TSP and an acid etcher - the floor still is a little greasy. We thought it might be "good enough" to paint over. No. Not at all. I'm not sure how we will get anything to stick to the disaster floor - paint or adhesive. Bean-e-doo works, but in my opinion it is not worth the colossal clean up effort.