How to Degrease a Garage Floor
If the cement floor in your garage is stained with grease and oil, it's not going to hurt anything, but it certainly looks bad. Just scrubbing the stains with soap and water won't get rid of it, since grease and oil repel water. A more effective solution is to draw out the oil or grease gradually, using the absorbent properties of clay cat litter, then following up with soap-and-water cleansing and scrubbing. You won't get the stains out right away, but with some patience and persistence, that floor can look like new. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- Clay cat litter
- Flat shovel
- Powdered laundry detergent
- Garden hose
- Wire scrub brush
Instructions
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Scatter clay cat litter all over the garage floor, making it deeper (about 1 inch) where there are grease stains. Let it sit for a day.
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Shovel up the grease-soaked cat litter. Discard it. Spread down a fresh batch of cat litter. Let it sit for another day. Repeat each day, until the cat litter no longer picks up grease from the concrete.
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Scatter dry laundry detergent over the floor. Spray water over it from your garden hose, set on the finest mist setting. Scrub it with the wire brush. Don't rinse it, but let it sit overnight.
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Scatter more detergent, and wet it again with the hose. Scrub it thoroughly with the wire brush. Rinse again. Let it dry.
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Tips & Warnings
Nothing about cat litter, detergent, or hand-scrubbing can hurt your garage floor, so repeat the whole process as many times as necessary to remove all the grease stains.
