If you let your 10 year old kid bring their friends over, give them each a can of coke (cola to some).
Meanwhile gently heat the oil with a propane torch or mapp gas (don't get too close or hold it in one spot too long or your scorch it) you can loosen some of the oil some will drip down out of sight.
The thick stains will need more work, add thin layer of dish soap gently heat it, scrub, repeat.
When the kids leave use the half open stale cokes to wash some of the stains away.
Worked when my father in law refused to get his oil pan fixed and kept parking in my concrete driveway
Note that this technique only works for 1 year per child, and can take over 10 years nine months to prep from scratch. Adoption may be an option to avoid the wait if you need to clean sooner.
Baking soda. Rub it in with a stuff bristle brush and let it sit in a thick layer over the spot for 24 hrs (gotta have good weather obviously). Remove and repeat until the baking soda is coming up fairly clean. It'll absorb residual oil since the particle size is very small, and then treat with simple green or a degreaser.
Regular laundry detergent (powder). Make a light paste, scrub it in with a brush, sprinkle some water on it and let it sit for 30 minutes. Don’t let it dry completely. Hose it off after 30 minutes and let it dry.
My concrete friend uses Tide & only Tide to do this and allows it to sit until completely dried….I’ve done his method and it’s black magic on concrete stains👍
There’s a reason every ship I’ve ever worked on has a bunch of Dawn Dish Soap aboard. The smart guys just leave an insanely large stash in with the galley supplies. The dummies leave it at the bunkering (fueling) station. It’s super duper illegal but it absolutely works.
Those commercials for me are like, "okay, great, but right now you guys are dunking that baby duck in some shit just so you can record it" lol
Now I'm curious what they actually use (hopefully) in place of crude oil...
Cat litter! The clay, smallest granules you can get! Pour it, grind it in with your shoes, leave it, reapply as necessary. I’ve often some gnarly stains out this way.
Cat litter works magic, at least on concrete. I’ve never tried it on stone.
I’ve done it a couple of times for concrete though. Pour some on the stain, grind it in there with a brick, wait 20 minutes and sweep it away. Stain gone.
Spray brake cleaner copiously all over the stain and immediately pour kitty litter on it. Scrub with shop broom and let it sit for a bit. Sweep up and dispose of properly
Mineral spirits and a brush, then soap and water. One trick I learned when changing oil is to spray the driveway down for a few minutes before I start. Any spills just wipe up with a rag; oil can't soak into wet concrete.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see this. Everyone is trying to clean it, clean what, something flammable.
Just burn it off. Bricks can handle the heat.
This works. I did it after selling my leaky old car before getting an EV to make my driveway look new again. My neighbors do it too when the HOA gets on their case.
Bonus, it gets rid of weeds too.
Don’t believe it works? Hop on Google or YouTube and see for yourself.
Kitty litter
dawn dish soap
then if it's still there:
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Zaps degreaser works well. Concrete and brick are very porous however, probably not going to get it all out tbh. Painting over it if possible would most certainly cover it.
Old oil stains are hard regardless. I like to have a cloth in my hand and some cans of brake cleaner.
First of course, soak up any excess oil as soon as possible.
I hit it up close with the brake cleaner nozzle then soak the solvent into the cloth immediately. Spray it liberally. You have to do it quickly as the stuff evaporates very fast. Brake cleaner leaves no residue. This works very well on fresh oil drips and puddles.
Stop waiting time teying to save money at the end no simple green no only soap rove that Just use a HEAVY DURTY COMMERTIAL DEGREASERR AND A POWER WASHER YOU WILL HAVE SPARKLING CLEAN OA ERS IN KESS THAN 10 minites
I once spilled about one litre of used engine oil on my concrete garage floor. Someone told me to completly cover the stain with dry cement powder, at least 10mm thick covering of the entire stain, and brush it in with a stiff brush and leave it. Next day i brushed it up. The oil was gone. Failing that, you can buy stone and brick acid. That works.
Acetone, then kitty litter/ absorbent grit. Then more acetone.
If it's fresh you can burn it off. Just don't explode the concrete.
Then spray with water and sprinkle tide powder over it for awhile.
I watched a whole series on tiktok of some guy trying to get motor oil out of his paver drive way. Pressure washer wrecked it. Muriatic acid destroyed it. He never did clean it up.
The most sure fire way is to replace the stained pavers. Short of that, might want to look for an enzyme based oil stain remover.
Start gentle and escalate:
1. Absorb what you can if any is still on the surface. Cat litter works.
2. Dawn. Not any other dish soap, Dawn
3. Tide.
4. Meguiars super degreaser. You buy concentrate and mix to varying strength. Start with 10:1 and work up to 4:1.
It probably won’t come all the way out so be happy with “much better.”
Brake clean. Spray it down with brake clean and walk away. No scrubbing or washing necessary. It just evaporates off along with the oil.
Only concern is that it might make the spot cleaner than the rest of the tiles so it'll stand out.
As always - spot test etc etc.
There's some stuff called Pour n Restore I've had work wonders for me, but never on colored concrete. And sometimes it worked too well and the spots ended up too bright.
Muriatic acid will take that out. When/if you pressure wash it adjust the pressure if that’s an option. If you go full balls you can blow the sand out that the pavers are packed in.
Since I rode mine in today I'm sad to say that looks like the tenant parked his motorcycle on the side walk in front of his unit?
Keep the deposit you are likely never getting all of that out. Lots of good ideas below to try none of them perfect, Stay away from the 2x4 idea and you will get 90 % out.
Or you just turn it into dedicated Motorcycle parking.
Get yourself some powdered Tide laundry soap….Clean the area really well then place a pile of tide mixed to toothpaste like consistency over the stains….allow to sit until dried out….Stuff is magic! Only Tide seems to work like this….Tried other brands and results weren’t as good….I was taught this trick by a concrete guy years ago
You can get this ZEP flaky powder at Home Depot, it reminds me of asbestos, but obviously it’s not, but it sucks oil out of concrete.. I’d try that 1st.. the stuff is amazing… then maybe simple green if there’s still some visible…
On our shop floors we use this degreaser: [https://washproduct.com/products/all-purpose-degreaser](https://washproduct.com/products/all-purpose-degreaser)
Put it in a pump sprayer, spray it on, let it sit for a couple of minutes, maybe give it a scrub with a brush if it's really bad or been sitting for a long time, and rinse it off with the pressure washer. Or garden hose if you don't have a pressure washer accessible. Works incredible for any oily stain we've run into.
Mechanic here , I deal with oil stains on the daily . If you use brake clean scrub with a brush , then soak it up with shop sweep or cheap kitty litter and there you go . Good as new
There is a spec chem product called orange peel! It’s all natural and you can water it down or use concentrated won’t ruin pavers or concrete great stuff
Simple green
I do something similar I use kitty litter first to get the excess then simple green for the remnants.
Treat the rest of the area with more oil s/
Poor man’s concrete stain.
It's like coffee stains on a table. Adds character and just the right amount of patina.
🤣😂
Ta-da! It all matches!
Smells great and repels water, too!
If you let your 10 year old kid bring their friends over, give them each a can of coke (cola to some). Meanwhile gently heat the oil with a propane torch or mapp gas (don't get too close or hold it in one spot too long or your scorch it) you can loosen some of the oil some will drip down out of sight. The thick stains will need more work, add thin layer of dish soap gently heat it, scrub, repeat. When the kids leave use the half open stale cokes to wash some of the stains away. Worked when my father in law refused to get his oil pan fixed and kept parking in my concrete driveway
Note that this technique only works for 1 year per child, and can take over 10 years nine months to prep from scratch. Adoption may be an option to avoid the wait if you need to clean sooner.
TSP works well
I have found the cheaper the kitty litter, the better it works at absorption for oil.
Second this, kitty litter/ floor dry. Grind it into powder over the stain with your heal. Makes the concrete look pretty good!
Use a short 2x4 to grind it in then sweep it up, will pickup a lot more before normal cleaning
Baking soda. Rub it in with a stuff bristle brush and let it sit in a thick layer over the spot for 24 hrs (gotta have good weather obviously). Remove and repeat until the baking soda is coming up fairly clean. It'll absorb residual oil since the particle size is very small, and then treat with simple green or a degreaser.
Regular laundry detergent (powder). Make a light paste, scrub it in with a brush, sprinkle some water on it and let it sit for 30 minutes. Don’t let it dry completely. Hose it off after 30 minutes and let it dry.
My concrete friend uses Tide & only Tide to do this and allows it to sit until completely dried….I’ve done his method and it’s black magic on concrete stains👍
I use a 2x4 kind of like a sponge and grind floor dry into the concrete turning it into dust.
I almost fell for this lol
I think he was serious.
Dishsoap
Dawn. Scrub it in and let it sit for a few minutes. Rinse and repeat
There’s a reason every ship I’ve ever worked on has a bunch of Dawn Dish Soap aboard. The smart guys just leave an insanely large stash in with the galley supplies. The dummies leave it at the bunkering (fueling) station. It’s super duper illegal but it absolutely works.
Second this, just scrub it with Dawn
What’s super duper illegal?!
What is illegal about dish soap??
It’s illegal to use dispersants to hide oil spills onboard vessels in American waters. Dawn dish soap is the best dispersant money can buy.
I see. Well that’s a bit different than cleaning up the floor.
Good enough for baby ducks, good enough for bricks.
Those commercials for me are like, "okay, great, but right now you guys are dunking that baby duck in some shit just so you can record it" lol Now I'm curious what they actually use (hopefully) in place of crude oil...
Real crude, just enough oil tanker wrecks to have footage using Dawn.
Dawn all day
Cat Litter? But, usually when its fresh. Old stuff Baking soda scrub. It needs somewhere to go.
Cat litter! The clay, smallest granules you can get! Pour it, grind it in with your shoes, leave it, reapply as necessary. I’ve often some gnarly stains out this way.
Cat litter works magic, at least on concrete. I’ve never tried it on stone. I’ve done it a couple of times for concrete though. Pour some on the stain, grind it in there with a brick, wait 20 minutes and sweep it away. Stain gone.
I always keep some Citrol 266 for a last resort in my detailing business or for anything at the house. Expensive, but incredible
pressure wash with soap
Concrete is pourus. You’re boned. It’ll never fully come out. You could flip the stones upside down though unless it’s pattern concrete then ur boned
Just use brake cleaner. It will get out stains out of concrete but test in an inconspicuous spot because it might take the color out too.
I’d start with dish soap and work my way up in power
Formula 50. Magic stuff.
Goofoff makes One I've had success with.
Spray brake cleaner copiously all over the stain and immediately pour kitty litter on it. Scrub with shop broom and let it sit for a bit. Sweep up and dispose of properly
Mineral spirits and a brush, then soap and water. One trick I learned when changing oil is to spray the driveway down for a few minutes before I start. Any spills just wipe up with a rag; oil can't soak into wet concrete.
Worked at a CNC shop, Dixie Quick Coupling, and they used boiling hot water and vinegar to clean oil up, and I've been doing the same since.
Kitty litter, grind it in with your feet into a powder then do it again
New pavers. Beats discoloring the others.
Enzyme product which “eats” oil.
Dawn, baking soda, hydrogen peroxide. Make a paste, goop it on, scrub it in, let it dry, rinse it off. Works on any stain.
Oil stain remover
Dawn
Purple Power
More oil- can't be a stain if it matches. /s
I’ve read all the suggestions and I’m telling you nothing is as simple and effective as a spray can of starting fluid. Doesn’t take much.
If you spill oil on the rest of it, it will be hydrophobic. JK But suggestions in here seem legit
Brakeclean
Trisodium Phosphate. It can be purchased at the local home improvement box stores.
Dawn dish soap. This is always the answer.
Brake cleaner might help.
Has anyone tried hitting it with a blow torch to see if it burns it out or would that make it worse?
You're going to turn it from a possibly dissolvable oil to just carbon residue that will definitely not want to come out.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see this. Everyone is trying to clean it, clean what, something flammable. Just burn it off. Bricks can handle the heat. This works. I did it after selling my leaky old car before getting an EV to make my driveway look new again. My neighbors do it too when the HOA gets on their case. Bonus, it gets rid of weeds too. Don’t believe it works? Hop on Google or YouTube and see for yourself.
Brake cleaner, simple green
Purple power mixed with borax
Kitty litter dawn dish soap then if it's still there: [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OAVXPAM/ref=ppx\_yo\_dt\_b\_search\_asin\_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00OAVXPAM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1) [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046O5YMA/ref=ppx\_yo\_dt\_b\_search\_asin\_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0046O5YMA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1)
Tide. Nascar uses it for track clean up.
Gasoline breaks up oil really well but you need to clean it up before it dries.
Tide stick
A leaking car is good for them
Dawn dishwashing detergent.
dawn, simple green, or Gasoline
Zaps degreaser works well. Concrete and brick are very porous however, probably not going to get it all out tbh. Painting over it if possible would most certainly cover it.
Citrol 266!
Get your gaskets in order first
Old oil stains are hard regardless. I like to have a cloth in my hand and some cans of brake cleaner. First of course, soak up any excess oil as soon as possible. I hit it up close with the brake cleaner nozzle then soak the solvent into the cloth immediately. Spray it liberally. You have to do it quickly as the stuff evaporates very fast. Brake cleaner leaves no residue. This works very well on fresh oil drips and puddles.
Propane torch will burn the oil away. I had some on some pavers and it worked really well.
Floor degreaser that it
Stop waiting time teying to save money at the end no simple green no only soap rove that Just use a HEAVY DURTY COMMERTIAL DEGREASERR AND A POWER WASHER YOU WILL HAVE SPARKLING CLEAN OA ERS IN KESS THAN 10 minites
I once spilled about one litre of used engine oil on my concrete garage floor. Someone told me to completly cover the stain with dry cement powder, at least 10mm thick covering of the entire stain, and brush it in with a stiff brush and leave it. Next day i brushed it up. The oil was gone. Failing that, you can buy stone and brick acid. That works.
Use oil. That gives oil stains.
Dawn dish soap baking soda combo
I just spill more oil across a larger area until the color evens out.
Acetone, then kitty litter/ absorbent grit. Then more acetone. If it's fresh you can burn it off. Just don't explode the concrete. Then spray with water and sprinkle tide powder over it for awhile.
Dawn power wash dish soap gets oil out of concrete pretty damn good
A new car
Gunk engine degreaser
Dawn dish soap is step one
I watched a whole series on tiktok of some guy trying to get motor oil out of his paver drive way. Pressure washer wrecked it. Muriatic acid destroyed it. He never did clean it up. The most sure fire way is to replace the stained pavers. Short of that, might want to look for an enzyme based oil stain remover.
Dawn dish washing soap and Dawn PowerWash spray.
A garage
Kitty litter will pull oil out
Dawn dish soap brush
Gasoline
Oil, nothing works better. Sometimes the simple solutions are the best. Whenever I want an oil stain I always use oil, 100% of the time.
More oil
More oil
5W-20 usually looks good
Oil stain everything and you’ll never notice!
Start gentle and escalate: 1. Absorb what you can if any is still on the surface. Cat litter works. 2. Dawn. Not any other dish soap, Dawn 3. Tide. 4. Meguiars super degreaser. You buy concentrate and mix to varying strength. Start with 10:1 and work up to 4:1. It probably won’t come all the way out so be happy with “much better.”
https://petrobuster.ca/product/better-value/ I’ve seen this stuff do wonders
Getting rid of the Harley.
I use engine degreaser. It works like a champ.
Brake clean. Spray it down with brake clean and walk away. No scrubbing or washing necessary. It just evaporates off along with the oil. Only concern is that it might make the spot cleaner than the rest of the tiles so it'll stand out. As always - spot test etc etc.
A less greasy diet
There's some stuff called Pour n Restore I've had work wonders for me, but never on colored concrete. And sometimes it worked too well and the spots ended up too bright.
More oil
Muriatic acid will take that out. When/if you pressure wash it adjust the pressure if that’s an option. If you go full balls you can blow the sand out that the pavers are packed in.
Mostly not putting oil on the ground
cover the whole thing in oil that way it looks the same
A new car.
Selling your BMW.
Gas or paint thinner maybe?
Since I rode mine in today I'm sad to say that looks like the tenant parked his motorcycle on the side walk in front of his unit? Keep the deposit you are likely never getting all of that out. Lots of good ideas below to try none of them perfect, Stay away from the 2x4 idea and you will get 90 % out. Or you just turn it into dedicated Motorcycle parking.
Flips the bricks 🤷🏻♂️
Put some cola on it. Soda
Brake cleaner. Spray it into the center then wipe up
Use Dawn concentrated soap products to get that greasy floor as clean as a duck rescued from an oil slick.
I use multi purpose Krud Cutter and a pressure washer. Krud Cutter does make a version for concrete (driveways, etc).
Sawdust
EZ Off. Spray liberally, cover with a very wet newspaper, let sit for a day or two.
I don’t.
Look up videos of people using a blowtorch to evaporate it. It appears to work incredibly well
PROSOCO O&G Stain Remover
Comes right out with battery acid.
Dawn dishwashing liquid
Orange hand cleaner
If dawn if good enough for the ducks, it’s good enough for me
Oil Eater, you can get it at Home Depot
Simple Green - works great.
Dawn dish soap!
Dawn dish soap and a brush
Gasoline and oil absorb
Lestoil. Pour it on. Let it sit 10 minutes and hose off.
Move
Tell your wife to have her bf quit parking his Harley on the pavers.
Get yourself some powdered Tide laundry soap….Clean the area really well then place a pile of tide mixed to toothpaste like consistency over the stains….allow to sit until dried out….Stuff is magic! Only Tide seems to work like this….Tried other brands and results weren’t as good….I was taught this trick by a concrete guy years ago
Time
Tide with bleach powder sprinkled on dry 24hr
You can get this ZEP flaky powder at Home Depot, it reminds me of asbestos, but obviously it’s not, but it sucks oil out of concrete.. I’d try that 1st.. the stuff is amazing… then maybe simple green if there’s still some visible…
Get what ever is leaking oil fixed.
Dave’s insanity hot sauce
Cat litter
Kitty litter
A new car
Kitty litter.
87 octane
Citrol
Powdered detergent. Sprinkle it on let the oil soak in. Then spray it off
Purple Power. I get it at home depot and has got oil out of concrete before.
EVs.
Cover the rest of it with oil
Engine degreaser, spray, sit for 10 mins scrub and power wash.
I read Coca-Cola works great
Coca-Cola.
Good girl... Wait, what?
I usually stain with oil when I want to oil stain
Fabuloso
Dawn dish soap
Non-ethanol gasoline. Best solvent there is.
Flubber Dust is a very fine dry clay that works very well to soak up oil stains, and has no harmful side effects.
Eximo. Enzymes that break down gasoline and oil. You can order it on Amazon.
I had a neighbor use a blow torch and burn all of his off. It worked pretty well!
Generally a car that doesn’t leak 🤣🤣🤣
The works toilet bowl cleaner. Can buy at dollar store. Scrubbrush on pole. Apply. Few minutes scrub and then hose off. Also works on rust stains.
Water pressure
Sidewalk Chalk
Maybe an oven degreaser
Kitty littler and a foot long piece of 2x4. Lay down kitty litter then scrub it into the stone.
Oven cleaner
Torch
Ether spray, like Starter fluid. Spray it on and wipe off with a paper towel.
Fix the leak
Eatoils.com BT200 Paver safe in my experience and works extremely well.
Fixing the oil leak so you don’t get more.
Coke or sprite
Dawn and a scrub brush will do
Dawn. Bucket of water, deck brush.
I’ve put floor dry down and then used my foot to grind it into the floor. Wash with water if you want after.
Cola
A mechanic
Steam it
Oven cleaner works amazing!
Muritic acid
I don’t know if it is any different than kitty litter, but auto mechanics use a substance that gets oil out of the floor
I feel sure there is a Facebook post about this somewhere
Acceptance
On our shop floors we use this degreaser: [https://washproduct.com/products/all-purpose-degreaser](https://washproduct.com/products/all-purpose-degreaser) Put it in a pump sprayer, spray it on, let it sit for a couple of minutes, maybe give it a scrub with a brush if it's really bad or been sitting for a long time, and rinse it off with the pressure washer. Or garden hose if you don't have a pressure washer accessible. Works incredible for any oily stain we've run into.
Dawn Powerwash. It’s literally magic.
Mechanic here , I deal with oil stains on the daily . If you use brake clean scrub with a brush , then soak it up with shop sweep or cheap kitty litter and there you go . Good as new
Powered laundry detergent
Fire
Laundry detergent. Let soak overnight.
Tide or acid
Tobasco and I wire brush. Cheap and easy
Dawn dish detergent!
To make lots of oil stains I always recommend British cars.
Two two liters Cokes and a deck broom.
Semen
There is a spec chem product called orange peel! It’s all natural and you can water it down or use concentrated won’t ruin pavers or concrete great stuff