Grease Stains And Your Concrete
Oils, fats and grease are unforgiving
concrete adversaries. never buy the line from
contractors, " I can get anything out". Maybe
so, but at your expense, unusually substrate or
surface damage will occur that doesn't appear
until a later date. The good news is sealing
your concrete is your first and best line of
defense, knowing how to treat inevitable stains
will give you an effective upper hand. Be
pro-active, not re-active. To remove oil, fats
and grease from un-sealed substrates such
as concrete, you should usually use a heavy duty
commercial degreaser with a surfactant concrete
cleaner specific to these stains and blemishes
to initiate the emulsification process. With
unsealed concrete you may find it very difficult
to remove all stains because of mavericks like
burnt hydrocarbons (old motor oil) that
have infiltrated into the matrix of the concrete
fibers and will not react to a chemical cleaning
compound. The absolute best answer for
removing stains is to SEAL the concrete using
V-SEAL, a deep penetrating chemical reactive
fusion sealer. V-SEAL will keep stains and
impurities up on top of the cement paste, making
them a great deal more manageable. Stains deeply
embedded into the concrete can usually only be
diminished and rarely eradicated. You must
change the response of the concrete when
intruded with impurities to effectively protect
it.
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