Seeking your expert advice for my daughter who just moved. Prior owner glued carpet directly on cement basement floor. Carpet now pulls up easily but a lot of hardened glue is left on floor. Any suggestions on how to remove glue would be greatly appreciated.

Adhesive solvent is probably going to need lots of ventilation. Before trying that, I would see how much you can just scrape off. Use a hand tool or an oscillating too if there isn't too much area. Then try to remove it with heat. Either a heat gun, steam cleaner or boiling water.

LOL, Ally!! I wonder how you know that works? Pretty sure I know. LOL

Yes, that dried construction adhesive is murder to remove. I have had luck with using an edger that is made for lawn care (flat steel shaped like a half circle at the end of a long handle) and a hammer and cold/brick chisel. It takes time & muscle, but worked. There will be some imperfections in the concrete after, but nothing that can't be solved.

I like Vee's suggestion and would add one thing. Wet 1 area 3'x3' for example and wet it down , then add a couple 3 or 4 layers of newspaper down and wet that thoroughly. Give it over a day & a night and wee what happens. If there ar some results try the same for a fes days and what happens.

in the garden apt of my fire building my glued down carpet was soaked by the FD. I was surprised how easily it came up. I could not scrape it all off. There were some new transition areas and I used leveling patch cement, so this created new surfacing too. Anyway I used double sided carpet tape (n lots of it) to apply the new carpet.