Thread: How to clean a workshop floor?

Sharpen up a long handled shovel and use it as a scraper.

I am doing the same thing right now. (cleaning and sealing all my concrete areas with a view to selling house). Will be firing up the hire water blaster about 10am.
Got a 3000psi machine with a rotary attachment. Works a treat. $120 a day.

For the oil in the garage, blasted it, then while still wet sprinkled laundry powder on the oily areas. Broomed it around to mix up. An hour later went over it again with the rotary thing and got a surprising amount of the oil off. There will always be stains but not half as bad as it was.

I toyed with the idea of painting my verandah areas, but I think that paint looks crap in some areas, (workshop OK) but mainly it makes it harder then for the new owner to put quarry tile or whatever down.

Cheers
Bill

mopping with kerosine is a good way to rejuvinate your floor half kero half water.bob

Originally Posted by robyn2839

mopping with kerosine is a good way to rejuvinate your floor half kero half water.bob

I have a faint recollection of workers in my grandfather's cart factory soaking a bucketful of sawdust with kerosene, throwing it on the floor and sweeping it around like a mop. Don't know anything more, not even whether it works or not, but would cost little to try.

ETA: Or was it hydrocloric acid? It was more than 50 years ago...

Thanks for the ideas everyone. I shall try them out.

I want to put some form of finish on my shed floor. The cement is turning "chalky" or "dusty" on the surface. When I sweep or vacuum up wooddust all I stir up is very fine cement dust, which I think is worse to breathe in (or just as bad) than wooddust.

I don't mind having to put some sort of finish on, but what I'm not looking forward to is moving everything out of the shed to clear the floor!

Originally Posted by I_wanna_Shed

I want to put some form of finish on my shed floor. The cement is turning "chalky" or "dusty" on the surface. When I sweep or vacuum up wooddust all I stir up is very fine cement dust, which I think is worse to breathe in (or just as bad) than wooddust.

I don't mind having to put some sort of finish on, but what I'm not looking forward to is moving everything out of the shed to clear the floor!

If my memory serves me right I successfully used liquid sodium silicate (waterglass) on my concrete floor many years ago to harden it up and to solve the dustiness problem. I suggest a Google to confirm.

Doesn't Bondcrete seal concrete.

If you do have oil stains etc on the shed floor then you can clean them up thus.


Get some kitty litter (Attapulgite type stuff) poor some of it onto the stain then some turps or similar oil solvent and leave it.

The turps soaks the kitty litter and the stain beneath, as it dries the oils gets sucked into the kitty litter, it won't be spotless but not too bad and clean enough to paint.

It worked well on my concrete shed floor and driveway.

It’s actually best to seal the floor just after it's laid, but I’ve never had the enthusiasm to do that until it’s too late, after that paint is the only way.

Cheers

Dave

Better still same procedure half diatomite and fine sand.
and you can use the mix as an abrasive cleaner by scrubbing it with a stiff broom after its been allowed to "work" for a while.

cheers

Originally Posted by munruben

Doesn't Bondcrete seal concrete.

Exactly so!! And a right good job it does too... and its inexpensive with of course is the best part!