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Thread: How to clean a workshop floor?
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7th October 2007, 12:11 AM #1
How to clean a workshop floor?
My workshop floor is concrete and is now looking pretty bad after having dollops of PVA glue dropped on it over the years. Does anyone know of a good way of cleaning it should I want to sell the house?
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7th October 2007, 01:34 AM #2
Sharpen up a long handled shovel and use it as a scraper.
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7th October 2007, 10:04 AM #3Senior Member
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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
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7th October 2007, 10:11 AM #4human termite
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mopping with kerosine is a good way to rejuvinate your floor half kero half water.bob
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7th October 2007, 01:48 PM #5GOLD MEMBER
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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...
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9th October 2007, 12:39 AM #6
Thanks for the ideas everyone. I shall try them out.
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9th October 2007, 09:56 AM #7
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!
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9th October 2007, 03:01 PM #8
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9th October 2007, 03:56 PM #9
Doesn't Bondcrete seal concrete.
Reality is no background music.
Cheers John
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9th October 2007, 06:16 PM #10Senior Member
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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
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13th October 2007, 09:26 PM #11
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.
cheersAny thing with sharp teeth eats meat.
Most powertools have sharp teeth.
People are made of meat.
Abrasives can be just as dangerous as a blade.....and 10 times more painfull.
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14th October 2007, 02:47 AM #12
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