How to Remove Oil Stains From Your Garage Floor
by Zap Garage Doors|24 October, 2019
As well as supplying high quality products and installations, Zap Garage Doors have a wealth of expert advice to share too. So if you’ve recently been grumbling over some unsightly oil stains on your garage floor, do not fear, our experienced team have put together some top tips that’ll make those pesky marks vanish in no time.
Is it important to clean my garage floor?
Oily products and hazardous substances can cause health and safety risks to anyone who enters and exits your garage, which is why it’s important to keep up with spills, to prevent trips and falls. Not only that but contaminated shoes makes it easy to contaminate the rest of the home, which can have a knock-on effect on your carpets, vinyl flooring or tiles. This can also be an issue for children who may sit and play on the floor and to pets, who may lick their paws. Failing to keep up with regular cleaning can also mean a more expensive and time-consuming task in the long run, when you do finally attempt to remove spills and stains.
What equipment do I need to remove oil stains from my garage floor?
- Rubber gloves
- Wire brush
- Scraper
- Cloth
- Bucket filled with water
- Degreaser
- Old towel
How to remove stains from my garage floor
- Using a wire brush, scrub across the stain
- Take the scraper and remove any excess that’s come loose
- Damp the area with a little water, using a cloth
- Pop on your rubber gloves and apply undiluted degreaser onto the affected area
- Scrub the area with a wire brush again and leave to sink in for 5/10 minutes
- Wipe the area with the cloth, rinse out in the bucket of water
- Repeat until the stain has gone
Sometimes you will be left with discolouration if the stain has been there for quite some time but to test that the spilled oil has gone, sprinkle some water droplets over the area, if they form into beads on the floor then there’s some remaining residue from the original spill.
Removing large oil stains from your garage floor
If your spills are much larger than a few dotted around then it’s advised you empty your garage. Like cleaning a mark on a painted wall, you can’t just spot clean because then the rest of the wall looks dirty and so, like the painted walls, a large spill on a garage floor requires the full works.
What equipment do I need to remove large oil stains from my garage floor?
- Rubber gloves
- Large wire sweeping brush
- Scraper
- Bucket filled with water
- Degreaser
- Pressure washer
How to remove large stains from my garage floor?
- Empty your entire garage
- Sweep the whole garage with a large wire sweeping brush
- Pop on a pair of rubber gloves and mix 1 gallon of water with ⅓ cup of degreaser
- Pour degreaser and water solution across the floor and leave to soak for 5/10 minutes
- Scrub the floor with a large wire sweeping brush
- Open your main garage door and pressure wash the floor
- Leave to dry
- Repeat if stains have only faded
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