Glued carpet

[PHorwood]

My son who lives in France is renovating his house and has come across a problem. Someone has glued the carpet to a wooden floor. The carpet has been removed and a mess remains. The glue is similar to Evostik, ie rubbery. A sander clogs up very rapidly. I suggested that he tries to get it off like paint, using a scraper and blowlamp, this would take ages as it is a large room.
I would appreciate any ideas.

[coccinelle]

In a DIY shop he should find some methylan or dissoucolle, you spray this on and it scrapes away quite easily. Other people swear by a steamed wallpaper remover but again needs to be scraped away. For very large surfaces a machine can be hired from large DIY places (ie Kiloutou) to do the job.

[Rouffian]

Hi chaps. I am the son in question and the job is now done. Here's what I did:

First I rented an 85kg ponceuse from Kilotou, and sanded the bits I could reach with that. This worked, but I ran out of time with the kit and was left with a ring of glue about 5cm wide around the walls.

To get rid of this, I first tried the blowlamp, but it was blackening the wood too much, so I went to plan B, the solvent, I got a paint stripper thing and tried that. It was pretty good but had a nasty habit of dissolving a little glue and spreading it in an impervious layer across the wood I had sanded, so I had to re-sand by hand.

Eventually I used a wire brush attachment for my drill and scraped it off with that. I then sanded the edges with my hand-held belt sander and voila!

Thanks for all of the great suggestions.