[Shop-talk] Concrete floors and oil stains

Eric Russell ejrussell at mebtel.net
Sun Sep 13 18:25:44 MDT 2020


I've used lacquer thinner or brake clean on oil stains then covered the 
liquid with sawdust or kitty litter. Grind it in, sweep & re-apply the 
thinner or brake clean. Usually improves the appearance.

Eric Russell
Mebane, NC

> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 1:38 PM Thomas Coradeschi <tjcora at icloud.com 
> <mailto:tjcora at icloud.com>> wrote:
>
>     All: I’d like to seek some input from y’all on successes (or
>     failures) in cleaning oil stains from a trowel finished concrete
>     garage floor.
>
>     I’ve been down the simple green & pressure washer route, don’t
>     really see any positive results there. I’m not looking for a “like
>     new” outcome; concrete is way too porous for that, but I would
>     like to see better than I have right now.
>

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