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03-28-2009, 01:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Iowa | | | GIANT oil stain on the driveway, what to do?!
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Something terrible happened and now there's about a gallon of oil on my driveway. It's everywhere. What do I do?!
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03-28-2009, 01:24 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | fire.
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03-28-2009, 01:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago | | | kitty litter, or similar, it will soak most of it up. there is oil absorb stuff they sell at the auto parts store. |
03-28-2009, 02:38 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Iowa | | | I used towels and then kitty litter to soak up the liquid oil. I sprayed down the driveway with the hose to no avail (alas, oil and water do not mix). I tried dish soap and I have a good feeling about this! I will continue dish soap rinsing the driveway, and then let it soak overnight. Tomorrow I'll buy some professional product.
I also peed on it. That may or may not help. |
03-28-2009, 04:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Norway | | The big car leaked a little oil a few months ago. I used strong industrial soap (no idea what kind, only that it was strong) and one of these to remove it. 
It took ages.
Pretty much the same as you are doing with your dish soap and hose, only stronger soap and water with much higher pressure. |
03-28-2009, 04:58 AM
| | | They make alot of products for this.
Over the years with my POS cars and working at a hardware store for many of them
rooto makes a concrete cleaner which does an amazing job http://www.rootocorp.com/rooto/concr...p_cleaner.html
all you need is a stiff blush on a dowel and a hose.
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03-28-2009, 05:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: New Zealand | | | Some sort of detergent will get it off. Had the same thing happen to me. |
03-28-2009, 08:23 AM
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03-28-2009, 08:27 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2002 Location: Kunsan AB, South Korea | | | Kitty litter & a 2x4
When I used to change oil at one of those Quick Lube joints, we would grind the kitty litter into the oil stain holding a 12" long 2x4. Swept it up after a good grinding and the stain disappeared. |
03-28-2009, 08:32 AM
|  | Eat at Joe's | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: J-Actionville, NC | | yep, kitty litter to absorb what you can. Drysweep andsimilar clean up porducts are just expensive kitty litter. For a solvent you will want a degreaser, there are some products made for cleaning broilers and grills that cut really thick grease that might work. PRoblem with soaps and waters is that it will take a lot and you are basically just spreading it around. I personally would just leave it as a mark to show all my neighbors that I am a man and work on my own cars 
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03-28-2009, 08:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Pacific Northwet, USA | | | cement or blacktop driveway? |
03-28-2009, 09:17 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | | Quote: |
GIANT oil stain on the driveway, what to do?!
| Buy another house?
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03-28-2009, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by Ericman197 Something terrible happened and now there's about a gallon of oil on my driveway. It's everywhere. What do I do?! | Find a new spot to unload the drum of K-Y and make sure the lid is on tight when you do.
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03-28-2009, 09:59 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | | You should definitely have firm girls fight on it.
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03-28-2009, 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by L-A You should definitely have firm girls fight on it. | This.
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03-28-2009, 12:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Prince Edward Island | | | You can have it sealed, the guys come and it looks like they paint it black. Makes the asphalt look brand new and costs a LOT less than repaving.
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03-28-2009, 12:30 PM
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03-28-2009, 12:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: St. Louis,MO | | | Kitty litter will absorb some of it.
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03-28-2009, 12:55 PM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Pour the same kind of oil all over the entire driveway, then tell everyone you had a professional *oil tint* applied.
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03-28-2009, 12:56 PM
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