Thread: My Situation

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My situation is the rented shop I have has the well for the house in front located to the left of the overhead doors.The guy that rented the shop before me,aside from not paying the rent,was tossed out because of a suspected oil contamination of the soil near the well.In fact the landlord had to do soil samples to be sure that wasn't the case.
I need and want to clean the floor.The first thing I am going to do is use speedy dry.Then sweep and sweep and sweep some more.Then I want to remove any stains.I am looking for a waterless or liquid-less way to contain it from run off to the well.Any suggestion??.

I am heading out to the shop to do the work with the speedy dry.I'll check back later to read the posts.Thanks guys.

to clean hanger floors in the navy we would pour avgas in the speedy dry then broom it across the hanger . it would lift most of the stains. then we would broom dry speedy dry across . the wet speedy dry would dry out in a few hours.

We used to do almost the same thing but use wood shavings and an industrial cleaner, I'd think something like simple green cleaner would work fine. Puch a pile of soaked shaving onto a spot, let it set awhile and then sweep it along. Worked pretty good..

i would just soak the stains with dawn soap and then use dawn/water mix on speedy dry.

is there a floor drain?? you could sandbag the door so nothing gets out.

No floor drain.I did a job sealing a warehouse floor once.To clean it we used murtic(sp) acid.I just got done using the speedy dry.When I had the spill I was out of speedy dry so it sat for awhile before I got back to it.I scraped the floor with a coal shovel and then with a wide plaster scraper.I like the idea of wetting the speedy dry.I don't know if the acid would eat it up.How about using bleach to wet the speedy dry??.It is stained pretty good.

Well I ended up with Behr concrete cleaner.I bought a garden pump sprayer,a heavy brush push broom.I sprayed the Behr on and scrubbed it in twice letting it set for about 20 minutes.Spread the Speedy dry and let that soak up the Behr.I scrapped it up in a mound with the wide plaster scrapper.Then picked it up with the coal shovel.Cost all and all about $40 bucks with still haft a gallon of Behr left.Looked better,but was still wet when I left the shop.Have to see what it looks like after it drys.Lesson learned.Never run out of speedy dry.

Got pictures of how it turned out??

I'll get some today.The shop is about 15 to 20 miles away from where I live.

Muriatic acid is nasty stuff, and I would not use it unless you were going to coat the floor with one of those epoxy floor sealers. Then you must use it in order to create a good surface for the epoxy to stick. It sounds like you are going at it the way I would. Just keep repeating the process until you get the floor as clean as you want it.