- Q.What is the best
way to clean polyurethane adhesive from skin? How about
from carpeting?
A.The best idea is to
wear gloves and not get it on your skin to begin
with. I use cheap vinyl gloves from
Grainger’s. If polyurethane glue does get
on your skin, wipe it immediately with a waterless
hand cleaner. After it dries, the only way to
remove it is to use an aggressive pumice-based hand
cleaner, which will remove most of the glue (and
part of your skin). The dried glue will wear off in
about a week.
On carpeting, the last thing I would do is try
to clean it by wiping it with anything containing
water. Naphtha should remove the bulk of it,
without initiating curing.
— J.J.