Reply #11: I think yours must be "real" glue

[Kali]

About 12 years ago my mother and I decided to get rid of an old linoleum kitchen floor that was starting to peel off on its own. it had some kind of wierd hard glue that my husband tried to scrape off with this weird roofing tool. We made him stop when we realized it was a beautiful wood strip floor underneath, not just plywood or whatever. Still the glue was a real problem. Then we noticed that plain old hot water disolved it - it was some kind of starch or somehting. Probably this floor was put in in the 50's or 60's maybe even earlier. So while it probably won't work for your more modern glue, anybody else out there give it a try - plain hot water and a paintscraper w/ lots of newspaper and paper towels.