Bath Mat Backing Stuck To Floor

I had a rubber backed bath mat on a vinyl floor in the bathroom.

Bath mat backing stuck to floor.

I bought a bathroom set at walmart shower curtain and matching rugs. How to remove dried latex backing from a floor. Rugs with latex backings can stick to your flooring leaving behind a big mess when the rug is removed. Then let that sit overnight and scraped the backing off with a razor blade in one of those plastic holders.

The backing has come off badly on the floor i need to remove it. The floor is beautiful. If you use rugs with latex or rubber backing. One is rectangle and one is contoured.

Most of the backing is glued to the floor. I have an old adhesive backed bathroom rug on my ceramic tiled bathroom floor. The discoverer of this trick deserves a nobel prize. I poured glycerin over the stuck on backing.

Wd 40 enabled me to scrape off the stuck bits after a 10 minute soak. In removing the rug i found many areas where the adhesive rug backing has stuck to the ceramic floor. I need something to remove all the backing. I m currently scraping it with a credit card old one but it s going to be a very long job and it isn t removing all the stickiness.

Then i scrubbed with plain water and a plastic scrubber to remove the glycerin and the tiny pieces of backing still left behind. The rectangle one that i set in front of the tub has stuck to the linoleum floor. Some water got on the rug and went through the rug thus causing the adhesive backing to adhere to the floor in spots.