Oil on sealed block paving - Block paving
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trixsimtb
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I have a sealed block paved driveway installed last year April, however house next door has lots of oil on his drive and has driven off his drive over mine and now two long very oily tyre prints on drive, plus some old oily footprints from before I've had chance to tell him keep off. Hes washed it down yesterday with hot soapy water but I can still see it, not so much but its obvious. Please tell me how I can get rid of this. I know they were sealed at the time of purchase, (bought hte house this year) help before I strangel the guy next door
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Tony McC
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It should wash off a sealed pavement, but if it's hanging around, you can 'digest' it using a product such as OT8 from Oil Technics.
I used this on my own oil-stained driveway a couple of years back and was very impressed. It smells of oranges and uses a bacteria to literally 'eat' the oil, making it easy to simply wash away.
I'm sure I've published these photies before, but they show a VERY heavily oil-stained pavement where I treated one half of the big oil patch and left half untreated for comparison. It took three treatments to make the stain all but disappear, but given how bad it was to start off, I think that's damned impressive. Also bear in mind that much of the stain is engine crud (the black stuff) and not oil.
This is how it was, thanks to my now departed Shogun. There was so much oil on the drive that I was worried George W Bush might invade me!
This shows how it looked after just one treatment. I can't find a photies of how it looked when completed. I have photies of it wet, after the final wash-off, but I had to wait a couple of days for it to dry off completely (it was November 2006 when I did it) and the photies I took then must have been downloaded to a different folder, which I can't find. They may have been lumped in the 'block paving' folder because that's what they show, and with over 12,000 photies in that folder, I don't have the time right now to trawl through looking for them.
This is the result after a couple of treatments
I used this on my own oil-stained driveway a couple of years back and was very impressed. It smells of oranges and uses a bacteria to literally 'eat' the oil, making it easy to simply wash away.
I'm sure I've published these photies before, but they show a VERY heavily oil-stained pavement where I treated one half of the big oil patch and left half untreated for comparison. It took three treatments to make the stain all but disappear, but given how bad it was to start off, I think that's damned impressive. Also bear in mind that much of the stain is engine crud (the black stuff) and not oil.
This is how it was, thanks to my now departed Shogun. There was so much oil on the drive that I was worried George W Bush might invade me!
This shows how it looked after just one treatment. I can't find a photies of how it looked when completed. I have photies of it wet, after the final wash-off, but I had to wait a couple of days for it to dry off completely (it was November 2006 when I did it) and the photies I took then must have been downloaded to a different folder, which I can't find. They may have been lumped in the 'block paving' folder because that's what they show, and with over 12,000 photies in that folder, I don't have the time right now to trawl through looking for them.
This is the result after a couple of treatments
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