Dealing with old sticky tile and what to replace it with

[Electron2002]

Doing a bunch of work to fix up my wife's old house. A prior owner had put down wood grain pattern sticky tiles over half of the garage floor. Of course they're god awful and we're getting rid of them. They are scraping up easily enough, but of course there is ton's of adhesive residue (non-asbestos). After getting them up, I am considering applying an epoxy

So, my question is, what is the simplest way to deal with the adhesive residue? Are there any epoxies that will actually seal over the residue without other issues? Or, will we have to get the old adhesive up before any epoxy would take?

Thoughts?

 

[Electron2002]

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