Any bright ideas for mopping up spilt oil from a concrete garage floor?

I don't care about the stain, I just don't want to walk it around the house afterwards.

I used to sprinkle cement over oil, but then I walked oily cement dust through the house...

SWMBO tended to get upset...



David

Sawdust, better than cement and is clean to use. Not sure how easy it for you to get hold of but its the best by far..

prevention is better.

if your coucil is into recycling then the l;ids for the recycleing boxes are good - large area and shallow or buy some washing basins from poundland. Lots and lots of newspapers help too!!

On those rare moment, I would wipe up oil using newspapers and rags, a bit of sand on top then paraffin to scrub the floor.


Or just buy more cars to park over the stains to hide them

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Originally posted by Johnmor
Sawdust, better than cement and is clean to use. Not sure how easy it for you to get hold of but its the best by far..

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Cat litter/fullers earth (fresh of course!)

'Prevention' is a nice concept - it doesn't help when you wander into the garage and see a puddle of oil under the car...
(see thread in 'engines' - now resolved)

I like the cat litter or sawdust options...

David

Cat litter is good as well.

Sawdust is best though.

When you're at the petshop buying some, but a couple of 99p cat litter trays.

Great for changing the oil and collecting drips etc.

Pat...

i use cat litter works very well

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Originally posted by graememk
i use cat litter works very well

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For prevention, dough trays from your local Domino's Pizza work quite well...pretty shallow but with plent of volume - just park your car over it....

I do normally have a tray under the engine... but this time it was the steering rack that leaked, with the oil trickling along the bodywork and dripping out by the nosecone.

And, for info, it's accidental leaks I'm trying to clean up, not the common x-flow ones!

David

[Edited on 17/2/06 by David Jenkins]

if i was you i would use fine sand.

Beware the sand, done that, even after a good sweep everything i dropped was coated in abrasive annoying crap.

Tesco/Sainsbury's/where ever's bugdet cat litter. Once dropped a complete sump on the floor Took an afternoon, but the floor ended up cleaner than it had been in the morning! And it cost a few quid.

Linky Linky Might help. Not locost I know

David, try your local motor factors for oil absorbant granules. Spread over oil leak , put on an old pair of boots and scuff it in . As used in most garages , they should know about oil leaks.