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As with most garages that house british cars, mine has become saturated with oil and various other fluids from my 6. Do you guys know of any good cleaner that will take the oils, brake fluids, etc. out of the concrete?
 
I always use carb cleaner, doesn't help with stains but gets the stuff up pretty good.
 
I've never tried it, but I've heard this stuff works

Pour-n-Restore
 
I start with a cheap homemade mix of 50% cheap liquid laundry detergent and 50% kerosene (or mineral spirits). Mix those two together until the emulsion goes "white". Pour it out on the floor and work in with a broom. After it's had about 15 minutes to work, hose the floor off. This will lift the heaviest greases and oils leaving "milder" stains behind which you can attack with cleaners ranging from POR-15's Marine Clean to less expensive stuff like Simple Green.
 
Go buy a few 2 liter coke bottles, pour it on, Let stand and rinse off, It might take a bit, But I read a great article about it...I may need to find it again.
Good luck
 
I use Bix concrete cleaner, found at local hardware store. About $6 gal, and is biodegradeable. Gets down deep into the concrete and when finished, the floor is fairly stain free, but more importantly, dry.
 
I'll have to try some of these out and let you know. I've got a big ATF stain on the driveway that my lovely bride is nagging me about. Somehow the rear seal blowing on HER transmission is MY fault. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

The BIX sounds promising... but then god knows we go through enough Diet Coke around here that I might have to try a couple of cans on a little spot and see what happens. It sure did a number on the paint on my deck.
 
Occasionally I have to get up on my soap box about urban legends and such. It is now that time.

Coke/Cola as a cleaner, meat tenderizer, etc. is a series of urban legends. Not that I put a lot of faith into the TV show "Mythbusters"... but they took on the cola myths for study. They found that cola does not tenderize meat, it does not dissolve teeth, it does not clean up blood (oil)(windshields)(etc.). The ONLY thing they found Cola good for (other than drinking) was used in combination with aluminum foil... it does work as a pretty good chrome polish. Don't waste your time and money pouring cola on oil stains. You'll just find you've created a sticky, oily mess out of what had been just oily.

Now on to "biodegradable". This is something that has ALWAYS irritated me. It really doesn't make a bit of difference if your cleaner is biodegradable or not. Why? Chances are you're going to apply the cleaner and it will lift the grease, oil, ATF off whatever you're cleaning... any you'll hose the whole lot down the drain/driveway into the environment. Those biodegradable cleaners don't somehow magically neutralize all that grease and oil you're washing away. It's false environmentalism to focus on it as if it did.

Sermon over.
 
We apologize for irritating you. Now, might you perhaps offer some positive suggestions as to what we can use?
 
For the Pour-n-Restore you can call 800.508.7939 to order.

For the Castrol Super Clean,...Walmart has it.
 
Paul, I gave my suggestion for cleaners on the first page of this thread. My comments were intended only to point out that focusing on the environmental "friendliness" of a cleaner is only important if you collect and treat the run-off from your project.
You won't find me perpetuating urban legends. I won't recommend anything unless I have first hand experience with it or know someone who has actually done/tried what I post about. I don't pass along third and fourth hand comments.
 
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Paul, I gave my suggestion for cleaners on the first page of this thread. My comments were intended only to point out that focusing on the environmental "friendliness" of a cleaner is only important if you collect and treat the run-off from your project.
You won't find me perpetuating urban legends. I won't recommend anything unless I have first hand experience with it or know someone who has actually done/tried what I post about. I don't pass along third and fourth hand comments.

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Did I miss somthing here... Or was this response for the other Paul?

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Wow! the first mini-flame war I've noticed since I joined in January...

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Nah, we're more like family here. Every once in awhile, there'll be a small spat, but no one ever takes it to the next level, because at the core, we're all too busy enjoying and sharing our Brit cars to bother hating someone else.
 
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Is today Friday??????

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