oil/soot mess how best to clean?

GW

hello wall people,

my guys got a little wild pulling a 5 section boiler (out of a ranch style house no less!). Anyways, the floor sustained some abuse from the transplant and I'm hoping someone has a trick to extract to murkyness from the cement floor. Thanks for any help!

Gary

bill_51

absorbent(kittylitter) and a hard bristled handbrush................and alot of elbow grease.

J.C.A._3

Bills got it!

Doing the speedy dry shuffle across the floor as the installers walk, works for the "well walked on parts". The rest will have to be force fed the treatment.

Personally, My girlfried likes it when I do this on a late Friday afternoon, it also sucks all the oil from my hands, and makes them managably soft and cut free.Honest.... your soaking in it.(or is it soaking it in?) Kind of like a skin peel for our hands, only a bit rougher. Chris

bill_51

speedy dry!! can't believe i forgot what it was called............but then i tend to use the word thingamajig alot in my technical explanations...customers love that!!

Dave Palmer_3

rub...

in the speedy dri with a brick then sweep it all up and do the same with dry cement,Dave

ed wallace

cleaning soot from cement

if its a painted floor use simple green

Weezbo

next time ...tell the home owner that he can install new vynil

or linoleum AFTER the boiler change out ....thats the swiftest thing to do

Weezbo

Trust me.

Jaitch

My Solution

Is either Simple Green or a strong Orange/Citrus based cleaner. If you don't want to use a scrub brush on your hand and knees, check your local janitorial supply house and you will find a scrub brush head that screws onto a standard push broom handle. Rub-a-Dub-Dub the cleaner in and then (if possible) hose it down and clean up the mess. I've also found that strech wrap applied LIBERALLY to the boiler before dragging across anything important (read: customer's floor) cuts dowm on the elbow grease needed at the end! Plastic PVC plugs also work good for containing the drippies!

Luck - JOHN

clammy

spray nine

i've found spray nine for all wall and floor covering and as every ones stated speedy dry or some times even better in alot of cases is a scented clay based cat litter it seems to absorb and draw the oil a little better then speedy dry with alot less soft shoe dancing and i discovered this when we had a fill leak and was called out on a sunday and needed something absorbant and went to the local a&p i was out of speedy dry and brought some scent cat litter found it really absorbed and helped remove the odar as for spray nine i've been using it forever and it is one of the best cleaning agents around it even gets rid of old steam boiler mud and will really cuts oil'grease what ever peace clammy

sootmonkey

you said best

the best would be 180 degree h2o at 3000 psi.....so there...