Nice I just recently got my drive done and waiting to seal coat it and seen alot of oil spots from my old Silverado! Alot of work going on I'm building a shop but I just want this shit up
I've got a black driveway (now a faded after a couple of years) but have a small patch of oil on it. I don't want to seal or treat the entire thing driveway, just looking for something that will lift off the oil patch.
Thanks for your videos, they're very helpful. But I have a question, and I hope you can help on this. I need to redo my small driveway, cause my landlord is pissed. really! I have some very old Oil stains, and my car has been leaking gas, by the drip (having lots of trouble finding the spot to fix it), but du to this, it has made a fairly big drop in the driveway, holes, stains of gas and oil. what do you recommend I do if I would want to refinish it and make it look as new as possible, (and of course, fix the leak in my tank would help and will be done). Please give me a good professional opinion for a very low budget family. Thanks!
Honestly, the same process should work with cleaning it. If take your car to an auto shop first only to see if they can find the leak, then determine whether you can fix it your self or shell out the money to the mechanics
Don't redo the driveway thats just silly. Any oil stain will come out with dilute Muratic acid. Its sold at Home Depot, Lowes, or a local pool store. Get a 5 gallon bucket, Rubber gloves and rubber boots. Fill the bucket up about 1/4 the way with water. Now slowly and gently pour 2-3 cups of muriatic acid in the bucket. Use a paint stick or something and slowly stir the contents of the bucket. Mark the top edge of the bucket with a permanent marker, make a couple lines. The mark is where the liquid in the bucket will spill out onto the ground. now dump a few cups on the ground and use a long handled brush to brush the mix around. Let sit for 5 minutes after brushing then hose it off. The concrete will look new.
Kind of surprising that he doesn't even use sealer primer over oil spots before sealing it. I would expect that from some of the companies with low standards but not from someone with so much pride. No matter how much he washes those spots, they still have oil in them. Also, you aren't supposed to wash that oil out into the surrounding land. With oil that heavy, you scrape it clean, put down some oil dry and then once you take up the oil dry, you spray it with primer. I only bother mentioning this because of how arrogant this guy has been with his "best sealer company in the world" claims.
Which have all been sarcasm. Also I am curious what you think the oil dry is going to do. You pick it "all" up (get 50% and blow/wash the rest is more like it) and then it goes right into the landfill still polluting the environment. The sad truth is there is no answer.
If you were going to pressure wash it with detergent, then why did you use the dish soap and the brush? Isn't that what the pressure washer is used for? You've double worked yourself because, the pressure washer was all you needed.
I don't know, I think I would have used kitty litter that could be properly disposed of, rather than washing all those hydrocarbons down the street. Would prolly do a better job with less elbow grease too.
And then do what with the contaminated kitty litter? Right into a land fill. LMAO. There is no answer. There is no "proper disposal". At least washing it into the gutter forces the state and your local water plant to actually deal with it.
First what? He first scraped everything he could off. Add water and that movable sludge is now dispensed onto the whole parking lot. You mean after that? He added soap and agitated it. You apply too much water and the soap is diluted and cant do its job of mixing with the oils properly. And then he indeed pressure washed it.
It doesnt get it off, ive tried. A few months ago, our idiot neighbour flushed his diesel tank from his truck and washed all the diesel towards our house now it looks like the road outside our house is permanently stained. Ive tried everything to get it off nothing works.
@@The_Sword3 Thankfully it did come off by itself. But it took a long damn time. And those asshole neighbours finally got evicted this month after trashing that rental property. Good riddens.
I like the style: "Whatever you do, do it as well as you can." However, those oily wash waters should be vacuumed up and disposed of as a toxic waste. See . 40 CFR § 261.33 . You don't know what is being washed off, and you are not going to have a "Toxic Leach Characteristics" lab screen on each job to prove that ground-run off is "OK". (It isn't.) Friend, you are risking your company if a "claim" is filed. You should buy a vacuum truck, and make sure your competitors do also, as it IS the RIGHT thing to do. It really is.
What exactly do you expect them to do? Whenever it rains that shit is going into the environment anyway. Dont like it, ride a bicycle. Something tells me you are still going to drive a car.
