How do you get your driveway stains up? Should I just go buy some coke and pour it every where? Pressure wash them?

I got a nice combo of tranny/oil all in the driveway.. [:@]

 

well funny story (i guess) so i just got my stang and my mom had just got her back yard redone and i meand realy redone hotub new side walks fence ect. and so stupid me take my deain pan back there and i slip over corect and there it was 4 ft. circle of oil in my moms brand new back yard..... and she was mad i tyrd evey thing to get it out ( oh ya she was out of twon at the time so i had all that atisapation.... man that sucked..... well if it aint that big you can spry it with some stuff called silmple green and then preser washs it and that shoud take car of it........
good luck

 

I own a pressure washing company and even we can't get those out sometimes. Try renting a pressure washer if they're fresh. If they aren't then call a pressure washing company. They should use oxalic acid and a surface cleaner to get it out. If you really want it gone and a pressure washer wont get it out then you could probably seal your driveway but that's pretty time consuming.

 

Don't just use the Simple Green from the grocery store designed for household use though. Go to an auto parts place and get the Simple Green designed for cleaning engines. You could also use some degreaser too. After you get it all cleaned and dry, go to Ace hardware and get a couple of gallons of "Sealtech" sealant and use a paint roller to apply it to your driveway. That stuff will keep water from damaging your concrete driveway, and makes cleaning up oil a snap. Good stuff!

 

I have used liquid laundry detergent and it works great. Just pour it on w/100% coverage and let it sit. Let the sun and rain rremove it. Don't seal until you are happy with how it looks or you will lock in the stains.

 

when i managed at a zaxbys here in brunswick we used a product called houndog it was orange soap that turned green when u wet it used it in the parking lot to clean the grease stains up works wonders!!! look up resturant or industrial supplies!

 

Was it a tar or concrete parking lot? Most of the products meant for blacktop won't work on concrete.

 

My DA brother has a bar-b-cue cooker on his back concrete porch, and some of the grease from the cooker got on his concrete. Well, he used muriatic acid to remove it. Yeah, it removed it.......with about a 1/16 inch of the concrete. [sm=badidea.gif]

 

Did he pressure wash it? That stuff is only s'posed to sit for about 10min...

 

I wasn't there when he did it, and I didn't ask him how much time he let it sit before washing it off, but he said the earth worms were running like hell when he washed it into the grass.