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Garage Floor is painted [Epoxy Paint]

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I don't just have grease and oil spots, I have a grease and oil layer. I can literally take a putty knife and dig into the crap that has accumulated on my garage floor in the middle. I think all the previous owners of my house must have all had LBC's, or something that leaks and drips equally.

I'd most likely have to removed it using some mechanical means, then follow up with as powerful a degreaser as I could find, probably something stronger than 409. Also, the concrete in my garage has a rough surface texture and very porous, and has many big cracks and chips in it. I just don't think it would make a good candidate for this treatment, and I'd hate to spend that kind of money and not have it come out nice. Guess it's just another excuse to knock down my whole garage and build another, this time three bays wide! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
 
there you go,....bigger is better /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
 
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...then follow up with as powerful a degreaser as I could find, probably something stronger than 409.

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How about some hypochloric acid? That should do the trick /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/jester.gif Or maybe just pour Castrol brake fluid all over the place. That stuff has eaten up everything it's touched for me! Seriously though, I dripped some on the floor the other day and neglected to clean it up immediately. I came back the next morning, cleaned it, and it had eaten through about half a millimeter of concrete.
 
There are lots of products out there for cleaning concrete. If the floor is real bad I'd use some sort of mechanical aggitation to scrub with,....even if I had to rent a machine. Fortunatley, I have a few scrubbing machines at my disposal (I work in the Cleaning Industry).

I've heard(thru my work) that this stuff Pour-n-Restore works great,...although I have not tried it personally.

Maybe if someone tries it out they can post thier opinion.
 
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How about some hypochloric acid? That should do the trick Or maybe just pour Castrol brake fluid all over the place. That stuff has eaten up everything it's touched for me! Seriously though, I dripped some on the floor the other day and neglected to clean it up immediately. I came back the next morning, cleaned it, and it had eaten through about half a millimeter of concrete.



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Well, I used to bring small parts into my lab on the weekends and degrease them in the fume hood using straight methylene chloride. Talk about easy cleaning, MeCl2 will remove just about anything petroleum based, and many other things. Small problem with it being carcinogenic though. Now if I could just find a way to cover my entire garage in one of those bubbles, like in the movie ET, and then I could get a level A containment suit for myself, I might just get the floor clean with a 55 gallon drum of methylene chloride.

I once spilled a small amount of brake fluid on the fender of a Chevy Impala I owned, about the size of a dime. Didn't notice it until 2 or 3 minutes later. When I wiped it off it ate a beautifully round hole through the paint right to bare metal, looked like I had masked and painted it that way.
 
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