Was just cleaning my garage floor the other day and thought I'd share a little trick I came up with for getting rid of oil spills and stains....How I came up with this was a few years back I was renting a house from a property management company. When I went to move out, the driveway had the typical few small stains from oil drips that any normal car over 5 years old would leave. Well, the management company was trying to charge me over $1000 to clean them up (total sham company I came to find out). So I went about the usual: carb clean the spots, brake cleaner, gasoline, Dawn dish soap, Simple Green, Purple Power, industrial strength cleaner, on and on. Finally, as a last ditch while doing a load of laundry, it dawned on me to try the powdered Tide I was using. I gave the driveway a light wet down, then sprinkled some powdered Tide on it. I spread it around with a broom and let it soak for about 15 minutes, then lightly wet it again and scrubbed it with the broom. I did that for a bit while I had a couple of beers.....soak, lightly scrub with the broom, wait, soak, lightly scrub....when I did my final rinse, I was amazed. The concrete looked brand new. Totally bright, clean, and oil free. I've been using this trick to clean my garage floor every time since then. As a bonus it leaves the garage smelling like clean laundry for a week or two. Just thought I'd share.
Not liquid tide only the powder stuff. Yars ago, I used to wash my cars with tide soap until a neighbour (body/paint man) told me not to a tide was hard on the finid=sh).
That brought back a memory.Back in the mid 80's when I was 16 I worked at a Good Year store, doing all sorts of crap work. One of the jobs was cleaning the concrete floors every Saturday. I remember using like a 20lb box of tide to do the floors. Man, the mess that I hosed outside was pretty bad.
I don't believe you, come and do my driveway to prove it The wife was just on my case wanting to replace our concrete driveway because it looks old It has some slight spalling but nothing bad, it could use a good cleaning though.
I've used powdered Tide several times to clean nasty concrete floors and driveways. The trick is to do it just as Lucas posted. Can't get in a rush.
I used to use coke, it worked pretty well. Also, handy to have in the garage for oil spills is a bag of cat litter tray stuff.
Ive used powdered laundry soap on my epoxy finished garage floor. Works fast and smells fresh for a week.
