Help,
Youngest kid was working on his junk ans spilled 5 quarts of old motor oil on my NEW cement floor!(funeral on monday)
how can I get this cleaned up?I used kitty litter and rags to get the oil but the stuff is in the floor now.
I can't use any water based cleaners as its 8 above out.
it's inside the barn so i don't want anything flamable.
Do I just wait for warm weather?
Then after I get the stain out,what kind of sealer can I put on it.
Thanks Russ

How 'bout bleach/water mix? I know there's some stuff out there in the books that can be had, but seeing how bleach is readily available you might be set..if it'll work...I always make sure there's drip pans underneath before I let anything loose so spills almost never occur..and when they do, my floor gets camoflaged, never let it go though, Speedy Dry always comes to the rescue..lol


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I use Simply Green degreaser, then a hose, to get out stains that friends cars leave in my driveway. Car fluids on driveway is one of my pet peeves. If a friends car leaks, they are asked to park on the street during their next visit.

After a degreaser, then maybe hot water from the house, alittle scrub brush action, then sucked up with a shop vac? Just an idea.
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The only thing I have ever used that really got oil stains off of cement is laquer thinner, unfortunately it is very flammable.
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There are several driveway products for just that at local hardware stores etal. I also would suggest "greased lightning" available everywhere. Seems to work on oil stains and you might have to scrub then go for muratic acid out of the bottle direct. Then...pressure wash.

I will send flowers to the funeral home.
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Another good place to check is your local transmission repair chain store like AAMCO or the others. Our local shop turned me on to this yellow stuff that they use and it made stains non existant. I just asked what they used and he just gave me a couple of gallons of it. I only used about a cup of this stuff and it was like new.
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I wouldn't go with straight muriatic acid, we used it in a 50/50 proportion to clean concrete off of transit mixers back when i drove them many years ago. It eats up concrete, I'd try a 60/40 blend then pressure wash, I love my pressure washer!, go from there.
as far as your boy spilling those 5 quarts of oil, how many of us rodders did something like that when we first started playing with cars?
Mine was striping a brass fitting on a carb AFTER installing new heads, manifold and carb, did it all right but that lousy brass fitting. ended up pushing the car by hand and collapsing a lung! Wish I had spilled 5 quarts of oil instead!
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AS a sub for kitty litter. I save the sawdust my table saw generates in a pail. Extra cheap and soaks up everything.
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When using Muriatic acid, you need ventolation and with it at 8º outside, itmight keep til Spring. Being an oil stain at this time of year, its not going to dry out..
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purple stuff is good. i think you can even buy it at walmart now.
in our shop at work we use a good quality floor dry. leave it on the oil spill and work it around to clean up excess, sweep up and put clean floor dry down on the area and as said in an earlier post, do a dance on it, traffic on the foor dry will clean it right up and be as good as new.
you can purchase concrete sealer at menards and i would guess lowes, home depot, etc. it can be purchased in water base for easy cleanup or petroleum based. i used water base sealer and a 1 gallon sprayer, like you would use to spray weeds on you lawn. thompsons water seal is a good product.
worked like a charm.
rickd
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#1 Wait till spring to get the stain out?
#2 Stain the whole floor...
#3 What's a garage floor without a few oil stains, It's not like it doubles as a dining room or anything...Or does it?
#4 Dawn Dish dish detergent gets oil off everything, but it may be slippery on a floor.
#5 How long did you expect it to be your NEW floor anyway?

Looks like a good reason to build a NEW garage and use that one for parking the daily drivers. LOL.
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I sealed the floor right after pouring it in my shop, so things clean up pretty easy, but when it was new I started out being careful not to spill things. I finally gave up and now, (8 yrs later) all those stains bring back a lot of memories. In fact when I repainted the grandkid's bike I purposely splashed a little paint as a reminder of that day.

I vote for just using some speedy dry or sawdust to clean most of it up and leaving the stain as a reminder of the son you used to have. Somebody had to be the first one to spill something. In ten years you won't even notice it.
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Dump some more kitty litter around the stain, and pour a bit of diesel fuel on the stain. brush it around for a few minutes, and then cover the whole thing with kitty litter, a lot. the diesel fuel will draw the oil right out of the concrete.
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I always just throw a bunch of oil dry or kitty litter down and do a little "dance" twisting your shoes into the oil dry and grinding it even finer and finer,and at the same time,grinding it in. Then just leave it for a day or so. gets 95% of the stain. Leave the rest for the memories....

I use Purple Stuff. you can get it at any auto parts store. use it straight. Let it sit brush it. Hose it away. If that don't get it all. Open the doors and add some New Clean carb cleaner brush hose it out. Then repeat with the purple stuff. Keep Ventelated. If that don't work add another oil change next to it so that all is symetrical. Change your handle to (oilslick). Good Luck

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i do the same as slick, but do a cleanup with varsol and a rag first. after a bit of use it is hard to see the "stain"
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Parts cleaning solvent and a stiff broom. Then the floor dry. Repeat. Then you can power wash with hot water and soap. Or scrub with hot water and soap.
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Thanks for the tips,
Sorry I poped off on the kid.
Irene informed me that we are just like the guys on discovery channel,when thay go to orange county choppers.
kid has a lot of talent,Wish my dad was still with us so I could ask if I was that goofy
thanks Russ&Irene

Thanks for the tips,
Sorry I popped off on the kid.
Irene informed me that we are just like the guys on discovery channel,when thay go to orange county choppers.
kid has a lot of talent,Wish my dad was still with us so I could ask if I was that goofy
thanks Russ&Irene

That was a very cool story on that bike shop. That's one lucky teenager. Not only to have talent like that but to have a place to showcase that talent. I like heartwarming programs like that.
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"I use Purple Stuff"
You know me, I'm going for the "Purple Stuff" !!! LOL
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Slick, do you put on some "twisting" music when you clean the floor??lol I've found over the years that diesel fuel is great stuff for cleaning just about anything except for small carb parts. It does leave an oil stain since it is oil but it is clear..I really got off on George's idea of leaving the "stain" there but cleaning it so that it's not a threat to life, limb, and happiness!! I've spilled oil in the early days too when starting out and who hasn't forgotten to put the drain plug back in before pouring the fresh oil in and about halfway thru, remembering that you forgot the plug!!!! At least it's clean oil but at $4.50 a quart for Mobile One, you don't forget more than once!! lol
Concrete sealer and the 2 part mix paint will make it virtually resistant to even paint stripper...
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Russ, in the passed, when faced with these kind of small out of control emergency, I have always used the " kid got it in, the kid gets it out" solution. This proven method takes a little longer, doesn't always get as clean as you want, but relieves you of oh so much worrying. It also provides you with some very valuable leverage with the kid in the future. Constant complaining, naging and just in general bitchin, could produce enough motovation for the young lad to re-paint the whole dam floor in the spring. Not to mention, it will teach the boy to be more responsable when he is in the Holy confines of your garage and add increased motovation for him to get out of the house for good as soon as he is of legal age. Try it, Russ, it will provide you with an embarassing story that you will be able to tell at any social gathering of his friends for the rest of your life. See Russ? Problem solved.


blksheep.....in Charlotte

The concrete people told me to use "Trisodium Phosphate" for taking most any stain from concrete. As I recall you just sprinkle it on the stain, add a little water, scrub with a brush and rinse. You can get it at the hardware store.
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I threw it away yesterday, now I have to go buy one
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