Franmar Chemical Black Mastic Removal Project

[medusa569]

Well I just used it today and was found at a point of no return. It is a good product if you are SURE you have a thin mastic to deal with . Other than that you will find yourself buying 2-4 times as much which is costly and very messy to work with. If you melt all the mastic great..if not you are working and dealing with the LeBrea tar pits. I'd go mechanical if you've got more than one layer of mastic.

[medusa569]

I am curious about the smell/fumes factor. I don't see the guys wearing masks but that doesn't always tell the story. How much fumes is produced that may be harmful to breathing and health? Other than that it looks like a great product! I wish my landlord didn't hire cheap people to do a job right.

[franmarchemical]

We don't recommend using BEAN-e-doo Mastic Remover if you have a wood floor under the mastic or a wood substrate. The soy oil will leech into the wood floor possibly causing problems or damaging the wood floor.

[staceyc509]

I have wood floors under mastic will this stuff be ok to get it up without damaging the floor?

[drsmith33]

Update - This stuff worked GREAT!! Tried several other methods first. Wasted my time and money. I did scrub some thicker areas with a deck scrubbing brush for better results. Other than that, let it work for 4 hours, and cleaned it up.

[drsmith33]

Hope this stuff works.  Ran into this video by doing a Google search. I have been trying EVERYTHING to get this tar-like mastic up. I will report the results on here when done.

Thanks for the vid

[TheJascal]

Does this clean mastic well enough to stain the concrete?

[franmarchemical]

@TheJascal Yes BEAN-e-doo will clean the mastic off the concrete great, enabling you to stain the concrete. We rarely talk to customers that have had problems with staining. We always recommend doing a small test area for both the removal and a small stain test due to it's hard to determine what the substrate is like after being completely clean. Feel free to email me at market@franmar.com if you have any other questions.

[TheJascal]

@franmarchemical To follow up; the concrete took the stain very well after cleaning off black mastic with bean e doo. The color chosen was a very dark brown which likely helped.

[princealbertnow]

I just slaved for about 20 hours like a savage carefully scraping tile and mastic off a floor (with water and a reparator of course) and now I want to cry

[PatriciaErhat]

Does anyone know where I can get a machine like the one melting the vinyl?

[franmarchemical]

@PatriciaErhat

Patricia, send me an email at marketg@franmar.com and I will give you the information for that company.

[LobinaLoco]

Can you give me the name of the company that removed this asbestos tile and mastic?

[LobinaLoco]

I am looking for a contractor to remove 2000 sqare feet of asbestos tile from a concrete floor. Can you give me the name of these guys?

[2thrifty]

The music for this video is awesome. Does anyone know the name of the artist and title of this song?

[franmarchemical]

@2thrifty We did this shoot about 6 years ago and for the life of me I can't remember the name of the song. If I remember it, I will be sure to post it for you.

[2thrifty]

Thank you for your prompt response!

I have another non-music related questions for you.

We have small bits of mastic on one of our bathroom walls that was used to secure a large mirror. We're trying to figure out the easiest way to remove it without using a bunch of chemicals. Any suggestions?

[franmarchemical]

If the mastic on the wall is on a drywall substrate I would not recommend using any chemical stripper as they can leach into the drywall causing other issues. If the substrate is plaster you can use the BEAN-e-doo Mastic Remover, by spraying the mastic and letting is sit until the mastic is soft enough to scrape off. If the surface is drywall, you could cut around the mastic area and peel out some of the drywall and repatch the area with patch/drywall mud and repaint.

Hope that helps....

[2thrifty]

Thank you for your advice! My husband was able to chisel the Mastic off the plaster. He's busy patching the wall now.

How can you tell if flooring is adhered by Mastic? We have a 1936 Spanish Colonial that we purchased this past summer. The flooring in the breakfast room, kitchen, service porch, and the above mentioned bathroom all have sheet linoleum. We estimate the floors to have been installed in the mid-1980's. How do we start to take it up or is this a job for professionals?

[Amy31415]

By the way, what's the giant machine at the beginning of the video? Some sort of giant steamer? I've been removing asbestos tiles and they certainly aren't flexible.

[franmarchemical]

The machine you see in the video is a special tile heating machine designed for asbestos tiles. The contractor that was doing the job that we shot video on, heated the tiles up so much to a point that they were slightly flexible so that the asbestos in the mastic did not create any air borne hazards.

[Amy31415]

Ahh. Thanks. I'm doing it old-school with a hammer, a scraper and water to reduce dust. I just ordered 3 gallons of the mastic remover, I'll be back to review afterwards. . .

[Amy31415]

Fantastic! I'll be trying this soon, you should put the video on your official website.