Monday, July 26, 2010

What brand and type and power level of pressure washer should I buy to clean OIL Stains off the driveway?

What brand and type and power level of pressure washer should I buy to clean OIL Stains off the driveway?





Would I need electric or gas powered? I got some tough stains on my driveway street area's that I want to clean up. My car USED to leak oil and I hate the oil stains onb the ground...They are kind of OLD stains and I tried all types of chemicals already to clean them but they didn't completely work. I want to try a pressure washer / cleaner now.





Any advice would be greatly appreciated!





Thanks in advance!What brand and type and power level of pressure washer should I buy to clean OIL Stains off the driveway?
Buy yourself a container of oil remover for hard surfaces from Halfords - Gunk or items listed below and treat the old stains with that first scrubbing the surface with a stiff brush. The top 3 driveway cleaners are:


1. Swarfega Oil %26amp; Grease remover


2. B%26amp;Q Patio and Drive Cleaner


3. Clarke Concrete CleanerWhat brand and type and power level of pressure washer should I buy to clean OIL Stains off the driveway?
If that's your main purpose for buying a power washer, you're wasting your money. If those stains, even without being set in for years, won't come out with todays array of cement cleaning chemicals, no amount of spraying with pressurized water is going to remove them, unless you plan on digging the cement out in the areas that are stained.
A gallon of clorox bleach is all you need, if that don't work the stains are deep enough that a pressure washer will be a waste of time and money. You might want to consider applying a concrete sealer as close to the color of the darkest stain as you can find.
i would suggest a gas powered one...if you can afford the extra price.





i have a good sized electric one, and it just can't get the pressure up enough to do that job.
If you've already tried to clean em up and they're old stains a pressure washer probly wont do ya any good unless you put some dirt or cat litter on it for a day or so and then spray it ...
Don't waste your money. Hire a driveway cleaning service to come out. A lot of the time they sand blast the driveway because water does not break down oil.
better than a pressure washer is plain old Tide laundry detergent, a big nasty scrub brush and lots of elbow grease.
they won't come out
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