Someone who never tried removing thinset will not be able to appreciate the awesomeness of this.

Holy Moly!!! But it just goes to show you that the right equipment makes all the difference! Great work, folks!

Cool commentary and example of a large-scale job and what challenges come with that. Great video guys!

Great commentary as someone also said. I need to get resin off my floor and found this very helpful. Thanks for posting.

That's a really great crew working together like a hand and glove. First class work from top notch pros

The average person, myself included, has no concept of the weight of that thinset sitting there. A huge eye opener this was! Very informative video!!

Looks very nice to me. I think it is finished well enough for any type tile job. New thinset is forgiving to some extent. So seeing the end results, I think you got it correct...

Man, Id make sure Id have several belts on standby. I used to own that same grinder and anytime I did any type of heavy grinding/removals it would snap belts. But those HTC800's look like they are rockn and rolln for you. Thats a pretty serious prep job and great job! So much goes into a job like this behind the scenes that newcomers arent aware of..like how you figured out how to get all that dust removal from second floor, how to get power close enough, having a plan B when something doesnt go right or if your tooling choice didnt work out Great work on a tough project!

That's an easy way to pick up thin set. Thankfully thin set is soft, so that's why the bits look new. When I retiled my rental, just 1100sqft of chipping old thinset up took a week by hand. I never thought to rent a grinder and do it. Lol

Great informative video, we look forward to sharing some of our techniques in the future as well

I just chiseled, demo hammered and used a floor sander with a real low grit to remove thinset from a bathroom and kitchen it took forever. I wish I knew this tool even existed, definitely the right and easy way.

I grinded a whole warehouse prob about the same Sq footage and it's still quite a job! Respect guys! Well done!

Great job as always. Very fond memories of Honesdale. Would go there as a kid…40 + years ago 😫. I don’t believe there was a building there that large back then?

PCDs are awesome 👌. The silica dust does suck though, I like to use a soft squeegee, I know they're meant for wet flooring but it helps with pushing the dust into a pile and pick it up later. It creates less dust. Awesome work guys, keep it up. As always your videos make it look easier than it actually is, everything about the concrete grinding is noisy and long hours. 😀

Very interesting to big jobs done, with the right equipment. Great jobs guys. Just subbed.

Amazing! Nice work!

That's what great, I did 8000sqft of thick capet glue with a htc 550. I was there for 3 days, hopefully soon I'll get a monster like yours and then jobs are going to get a bit easier. Keep up the great work grentmen.

Excellent job. Helps to have the correct tools.

Best video yet!

When you can’t estimate your way out of a job. Kidding aside, Thanks for taking the time to share this and hope you got a nice check.

Nice job!

Phenomenal job!

awsome work!

I used to do concrete polishing...damn hard job.

Good job guys

Wow! you guys are awesome I wish i could be in you team I know this is not easy event if you have the beast grinding machine ! Cheers !

True professional’s 😎

Tremendous videos !! Incredibly interesting ! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Excellent work. Am. A. Floor installer. Lookin. To. Get. Into. The. Demo. Grind. And. Floor. Prep business great. Work. You. Guys did

great video, what would be the cost per SF to do this? Thanks

Looks like those machines really made that job manageable. My garage has a similar, but different problem. A previous owner decided they didn't like the look of the control joints and had a contractor cover them with what I assume is concrete floor resurfacing mix. It looks like concrete, but with vanishingly fine aggregate. They feathered the area around the "patches" to make them blend in, but you can tell the floor is slightly higher where the joints are. Of course what happened is the thin coat of resurfacer cracked over all the joints. It's coming up in small chunks now and I can see some sort of plastic that was laid over the joints probably to keep the layer thin to avoid problems with the resurfacer shrinking where it would have been thickest in the joints. I wanted to put an epoxy or urethane coating on the floor, but I need to deal with this problem first. Right now there is just a set of cracks in the shape of a + on my floor. Do you think my best option is to rent a smaller floor grinder to grind down those areas? Maybe I could try to break the resurfacer up with a hammer where I can first to make the grinding process faster. Once ground down with the plastic strips removed I assume the original control joints are under there in good condition, but regardless I need to restore the joints to the way they were installed to prevent any coating from cracking and possibly coming up at the edges of the cracks. What do you think? It's a 20x20' garage and the control joints form a cross splitting the slab into 4 sections. The slab is in great condition otherwise. I would like to make it as flat as possible. Thanks.

Good stuff

Cool stuff! Though I'm surprised the CFM rating isn't a tad higher for the dust extraction.

Credit to yous sir dealing with that dust .

Love your work boys. Professional Organised Clean Tidy Smart

I have no idea why I enjoy watching these videos lol but I do

Wow! That worked great. I had to grind off about 3/4" of concrete in my entryway because of a bump in the slab when I installed porcelain tiles. Even with a large fan sucking air out through the front door, my house still has concrete dust in the nooks and crannies of every room.

I would have just put down a tough underlay for the carpet padding and call it good. How much was this job?

We’ve all done a bathroom or kitchen where we needed one of these machines 😂

I have a home that has an overlay of concrete over existing slab. The overlay was then stamped. Its too rough and in a few spots its cracking. Im assuming we would need to do this method to get rid of the heavy stamp and ridges to lay new floor? Some other issues is the kirchen cabinets will need to.be worked around and the toilets in bathroom will.need to be removed. Not to mention covering everything

Wow just wow👍🏻👍🏻🏁🏁

Get the floor wet day before and you should most 40% faster. Greta work by the way...

Have you guys made a video on removing oil stains from concrete? If not can you please make one?

How many blades did you go through?

how much did you charge for that if you don't mind me asking. roughly.

When I went to remove the tile from my foyer I found they had used portland cement instead of thinset. Hadbto jackhammer it out.

Who popped up the old tile? That also had to be quite a job, although it didnt seem to have a very good bond with the thin set.

I can't remember which video it is, but you have a 'knee cart' or 'knee creeper' you talked about and use frequently. Do you have more information on that? (brand, where to buy, etc). Thank You.

How much smoother for a new epoxy floor ? I have been experimenting with epoxy on all kinds of materials from foam, concrete, OSB, MDF , and tile. Epoxy seems quite thick enough to cover small imperfections

What was the cost of your Scarifying blades

Looks great. Do you have a preference between the large plate PCDs vs the T-Rex segments?

Wow that worked great man. What do you charge for a service like this? We install floors and often use a Mikita chipping hammer for stuff like this. Way more dusty and probably takes 10x longer

Awesome work , I have learned a lot from your guys and I have a question, A self leveling concrete (compound) could be a solution rather than grind the floor ?

Nice work what would you charge for that job?

Water helps soften stuck thinset and keeps dust down. Thats if your using hand scrapers.

😮😮😮wow great job!! How much did you charge?

Yes, wear respirators. I've worked with ceramic tiles and thin set for many years and there is warnings on the bags indicating that there are cancer causing agents within the compound.

I have a 60 sf area (15' x 4') with a disastrous attempt to use self-leveling compound. It varies from 1/8" to 1/4" thick. I'd like to remove it back to the sub-flooring. Any ideas how to get this done? Thanks.

What's a sqft of grinding cost the customer?

How bad was that original tile job? It looks like the tiles must have just popped right up when they removed it without the thin set actually bonding that well to the tile.

Video Title: "The Easy Way" Actual Video: "This is not gonna be easy" LOL

Gah dam. That thing is a beast

I watched the entire video…..not sure why, but I did.

How much do charge to take thinset off

If you don't grind the thinset, can you put the self leveling concrete on top of the thinset??

Does anyone know I good reliable concrete company in the dallas area to redo floors?

very nice. we runbterrco 3100 for any heavy removal. then the planetary to smooth out.

Impressive dust extraction as you can't see any floating in the air where the sunlight is shining through.

The grinder worked better than I would have expected it to, but I'm curious why topping the well bonded mortar with a SLU and encapsulating it want an option?

How much a sq.f something like this work is charged ?

how much this machine? And where are we can purshase ?

I run husqvarna units but they have the htc plates as well look into the t-rex with backer diamonds those are really nice as well they are from htc

What does it cost per sq ft for this job

That JOB is where you separate “ The wanna BE from the Professionals. 😂

What is your process for low spots? Our machines are superabrasive brand, with a variety of sizes.

Did you quote the job accurately? In other words did you guys make money? I would love to see a follow-up video of the new flooring that was installed. Guys did a quality job!!

This is what I use to do for a living

I mean we saw the thin set removal I can’t imagine the mess and time it took to remove all that tile holy cow

But how do you remove thin thickset?

Great work! I have about 300 sq ft to do so this might not be completely applicable but still fun to watch. Has anyone told you that you sound like Jon Hamm?

How do you guys remove the existing epoxy/thinset in the corners when prepping for epoxy?

What do you regularly charge per square foot for that grinding?

PCD’s are awesome! How many set of diamonds did you go through?

“The easy way”, first thing you say, “this is not going to be easy” 😂

What do you guys dispose of the dust?

cost per square feet ??

Price ????

What's the grinder called? What're the brand and model?

Gotta love them PCD's .

How do you transport tons of dust and dump it?

All that work and expense for indoor outdoor carpeting ? 😳 Madness !

Close to 13,000 lbs of thin set on 20k SF based on 80SF coverage per bag

shot blasting, like for terrazzo floors might work...I would have just primed it and floor leveled it...

Do they make a rider grinder?

probably sort of a relief to just get called in for an occasional glue removal job instead of having to go over the whole place a million times for a full grind/polish

They going to save the drywall ???

I know it’s expensive but you guys earn every nickel

Best way to get it off of wood subflooring?

27,000 square feet of tile? I shudder to think of that price tag!

when someone doesn't understand that the instructions are right there in the NAME