My garage floor is full of leaked tranny oil, mixed in w/ motor oil. I want to clean my entire garage out this weekend and also clean that **** up off the floor. Damn my leaking tranny and oil pressure sensor!

Anyone recommend a method or product?? I heard a long time ago that cat litter works... i dunno, i'd rather prefer a product. As for the driveway... i wanna clean as much of it off, then ill put a thin layer of cement to cover it up. As for the garage... i cant use the cement method because the ground is really smooth and different tone color... weird. Alright, thanks guys.

 

The best I have found is flour or dry cement. Just put in on and sweep around a bit and it picks it right up and takes all the moisture too.

We use it in the underground parking in our Condo.

Litter is ok for large amounts but to get right into the concrete or ashphalt you need something much finer.

PS BTW I have tried almost every commercial product and nothing works like plain old all purpose flour.

 

Wow, I've never heard that method before but it totally makes sense. Thanks! I will do that today.

 

Spray brake cleaner on it and let it sit for a bit but not dry out and it will wipe up many times...it may need slight scrubbing with stiff brush if set-in.

Also Simple Green works many times as well...

 

This is what I do,

get kitty litter (Generic brand is fine) and pour about a 1/2 inch on the spot. YOu can either let it sit there for a while, or wear an old pair of sneakers and 'grind' the kitty litter INTO the ground. It will soak up all of it in due time.. it will work, just that you will look like you're doing the 'Twister' on the floor.

 

The fluids or the stains? The fluids...saw dust, kitty litter. To get rid of the stains you will need power washer to cut some of the surface.

 

Castrol Super clean works great for taking stains out....use full strenghth spray onto stain...scrub...let sit 5 minits...scrub..and wash off.

 

I wouldn't recommend applying a thin layer of cement over the spot. It will just crack and look even worse and also present a hazard for your tires and safety in general. Just clean it as best as you can.

 

He meant concrete, cement comes in bags.

 

kitty litter

 

thats still not gonna change the fact that it will crack right off, I do mason work, if you want to get a stain out of cement or concrete or bricks go to ace and get some muriatic (sp) acid and mix it with some water and then with thick rubber gloves and a wire brush scrub the stain and then wash off with water, we do it all the time when the trucks leak oil on someones driveway, that **** is nasty so be carefull.

 

Coca Cola. No joke. Let it sit for about 10 minutes and wash off. It's scary what this stuff does to oil, imagine what it does to your insides (for those of you that drink too much cola).


Dave

 

re-pave your driveway

 

Just the stuff I was thinking off.

I need to paint my concrete basement floor with dust suppressant. I was told that using muriac acid is important to degrease the concrete first.

 

thanks for all your advice guys. Well stage one is complete... lol at least the garage floor. I sprayed some water over the huge oil stained area, then used a brush to scrub it down.. then i sprayed a ****load of Orange Clean degreaser.... let it sit for a couple min, then scrubbed some more. Then to top it off, i poured flour on top of it all... hahhaha omfg it looks worst now lol! well I was able to scrape off majority of it.

at least it is dry! I can walk all over it now w/o getting my feet oily. The only thing left now is the ugly oil stain. I will check out the muriatic acid. Thanks guys!

 

if your house fairly new? if it is you probably dont have to but if you do mix it up weak, and make sure you open the windows, Once i took a breath of that by accident man that sucked lol

 

Gasoline will clean it right up, just be sure to not have a flame around.

 

That's just the combination of acetic acid, and CO2 from the carbonation. Granted it won't do as well as muratic acid (hydrochloric acid), but it works. Doesn't hurt your insides unless you drink too much....I'm talking about a gallon a day. Who drinks that much??

 

I have had good success with powdered laundry detergent. A quarter scoop of Tide and a little bit of water, work the paste into the stain. Let sit overnight, and hose off next morning, you will see the stain greatly reduced.

 

what if i were to use bleach too?

 

Just don't mix that with muratic acid...or any acid for that matter. Unless of course you want to produce some mustard gas.