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After working on several cars and projects on the driveway it’s finally time to do a little clean up. What will work best, a pressure washer or some kind of stain remover or just repaint the driveway? The stains are pretty bad.
John
Pressure washer and a detergent.
Yeah, repainting the driveway would be a tremendous hassle and likely cost you more in supplies than just renting a power washer and wiping away the stains yourself. It’s been a while since I power washed the driveway, but the whole job only took about an hour to an hour and a half.
Step 1- pressure wash with a detergent to break get rid of the oils. BTW, you need to use a pressure washer that has a lot of PSI in order to remove the oily layer…
Step 2- right after it dries, use a sealer specialized for drive ways or garages. regular home wall paint won’t do.
Step 3- continue working on cars with out having to see oil stains.
better is to epoxy… here is an old video from this old house (notice how they use a dewalt drill to mix the epoxy 🙂 )… though this is more towards a garage floor…
http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/video/0,,20047070,00.html
here is another video that is more recent…
http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/video/0,,20503913,00.html
now in 2012, they should have concrete color epoxy for your drive way… so i believe… i could be wrong.