Avoneer
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| posted on 24/10/04 at 12:59 PM |
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Drive Cleaning
Anyone any good guggestions how to get all the oily film off my tarmac drive before my t'other half cuts off my esticles?
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Northy
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| posted on 24/10/04 at 01:14 PM |
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LMAO! 
Move house, thats what we're doing!
[Edited on 24/10/04 by Northy]
Graham
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 24/10/04 at 01:32 PM |
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If you buy/hire a pressure washer, you can get stuff to clean drives... works really well, but don't use it on tarmac drives...
rgds,
David
(who's got a REALLY patchy tarmac drive, since cleaning an engine with Gunk & a pressure washer )
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blueshift
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| posted on 24/10/04 at 01:32 PM |
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I think you can get driveway cleaning stuff.
Personally I'd try a bucket of hot water with fairy liquid in, and a broom. give it a sluice and a scrub then hose it off.
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scoobyis2cool
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| posted on 24/10/04 at 02:58 PM |
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You can get driveway cleaning stuff from B&Q and places like that, I used it when I left a 6ft pool of gearbox oil on my dad's drive
Pete
It's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care...
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Avoneer
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| posted on 24/10/04 at 04:18 PM |
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Guy from down my road gave me a tip whilst I was scrubbing away with a brush and some fairy liquid - washing powder. So I sprinkled a load on, left if
for half and hour, scrubbed it, rinsed it - and it's bloody clean and smells nice too!
Job's a gud un....
Pat...
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 24/10/04 at 05:53 PM |
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Shall try the washing powder cleaning when i move my cars
Ben
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Avoneer
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| posted on 24/10/04 at 06:15 PM |
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Hard bloody work with the stiff brush though!
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tractorboy
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| posted on 24/10/04 at 07:22 PM |
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my misses wants to know what brand you used and was it recomended by hotpoint?
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Hellfire
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| posted on 24/10/04 at 08:10 PM |
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The dish washing liquid AND washing powder for clothes makes a lethal mix of ammonia, but rubbed in with a stiff brush will remove most oils. Try it
on your hands, put liquid on dry then srinkle on washing powder. Plays hell with the hands but really gets 'em clean! Don't breath in the
vapours OR light up near it!!!
I did it on the drive of my old house - got all traces of oil off! If first application doesn't get it off, let the solution stand on it for a
while.... then wash off!
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 24/10/04 at 08:16 PM |
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Cheers for the warning 
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Hugh Jarce
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| posted on 25/10/04 at 03:58 AM |
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Yep, washing powder and fairey liquid worked for me on many an occasion.
If you've got oil spills on concrete, they are much harder to remove or disguise than on tarmac. What I do first is flood the area with a
solvent such as white spirits or parafin to help dilute the oil. After a while I then resort to the tarmac treatment.
Very nasty fumes though, so if it's in a closed space or garage, open the doors and windows and get out.
Don't allow anyone to flick a fag but into the area thinking the wet stuff will extinguish it. I've seen the result at a friend's
house.
The pay isn't very good , but the work's hard.
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Ben_Copeland
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| posted on 25/10/04 at 07:04 AM |
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Well that'll burn the oil off the driveway
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Peteff
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| posted on 25/10/04 at 08:57 AM |
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Don't know what it's called but
My brother in law gets some orange smelling stuff off the shopping channel. It comes in a gallon container and you dilute it into a spray. It's
brilliant stuff. He drained his sump and left the can outside the door and then kicked it over as he was coming out. We used cement dust to soak it up
but it left a big black stain. He sprayed this stuff on it and left it overnight. I went down next day and there was no trace of it. You can use it on
hands as well apparently
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Avoneer
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| posted on 25/10/04 at 11:14 AM |
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You've been tangoed!
Will have to cover my drive with a load of oranges and jump on them from the roof of my house.
That should do it!
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timf
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| posted on 25/10/04 at 11:43 AM |
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this stuff is same as they use on garage pump forcourts
http://www.jjsmith.f9.co.uk/sureclean.html
just seen the price
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 25/10/04 at 12:32 PM |
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a new drive is quite expensive tho.....
atb
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Hellfire
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| posted on 25/10/04 at 01:11 PM |
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Pat incedentally:
Alright? Where's my video? 
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Northy
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| posted on 25/10/04 at 05:09 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Hellfire
Pat incedentally:
And me in the passenger seat!
Graham
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Avoneer
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| posted on 25/10/04 at 05:24 PM |
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Holding you 'ollox by the looks of things!
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Northy
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| posted on 25/10/04 at 05:38 PM |
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Good job it wasn't a picture of me waving my arms about showing you which way the track went! That would make you look like a proper tw*t!
I meant to tell you on the day, but looks like it could do with a rear anti roll bar!
Cheers
Graham
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Hellfire
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| posted on 25/10/04 at 07:35 PM |
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Northy: anitroll bar wouldn't have done much for the arse dragging on the floor either the Avon or yours!
Either less Pie's or wind up the spring-rate!!!! IMHO
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Hugh Jarce
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| posted on 25/10/04 at 10:00 PM |
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Did the rear wheel arch feel hot as you were getting out?
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