Cleaning oil stains from Concrete and especially Asphalt driveways or parking pads, can be very hard to do if you do not know what works. There are many products available at various hardware stores especially made to clean oil stains from concrete and asphalt, some of these stain removing products work ok and some not so good at all. It would cost you a nice chunk of change to try two, three or more of these products and in the end, you may still have the oils stains that you started out with.
I have tried at least five of these stain removal products and can tell you first hand, the oil stains on the concrete surfaces are much easier to remove with the store bought products than on asphalt surfaces. So if you are trying to remove oil stains from your concrete driveway or park pad, then yes, go ahead and use a store bought oil stain removal product. If you are trying to remove an oil stain from your asphalt driveway or park pad, I would suggest not wasting your money on store bought cleaners. The reason being is asphalt is very porous and it gets down in deep and simply does not get removed easily especially if the oil stain is over 24 hours old.
So what do you try next? Some say use clay based kitty litter which will absorb the stain in a few days if left on top of the stain. Sorry been there done that, stain was still highly visible. You can also forget about using vinegar, sand, bleach, hot water, dish detergent and so on, they all barely even make a dent in removing the oil stain. This is where I was at when I had tried everything I found that was supposed to remove these nasty sunk in deep oil stains, then I thought I will try one last procedure which was using plain old baking soda and to my amazement it actually worked!
Here is how I used the baking soda procedure to remove a large oil stain the professional products could not do.
- Wipe up the stain thoroughly with a couple of rags until cannot get anymore off.
- Pour lots of baking soda all over the oil stain and let sit for one hour.
- Now with a very stiff bristle brush (not steel wire brush) work the dry baking soda into the oil stained area going in circles, up and down and back and forth for a good while.
- Now pour a little water over the baking soda and mix into the baking soda and continue scrubbing the stain with your stiff bristle brush for another good length of time.
- Now using a garden hose or just a bucket of water and a bib sponge wipe up the stained area and cleanse away the baking soda, then let dry. If have white outlines when dry from the baking soda, you will need to hose away more thoroughly.
You may have to do this procedure a few times to get rid of the oil stain completely, but at least it works and is very cheap to do. Concrete oil stains are hard to remove and Asphalt oil stains are extremely hard if you did not know what to do.
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