need super heavy duty driveway cleaner

[funkingonutz]

I am in dire need of some "military grade" driveway cleaner for my house.
I have a recently brand new $3,000 driveway and there is rust flakes/PB Blaster/oil spills and leaks/a little white spray-paint overspray/and to top it all off.....brake fluid. These fluids are randomly scattered around my driveway, but mainly where i park the truck at night.
I dont care if the cleaner is god durn radioactive!! it needs to be back-to-black like ASAP
Im case your wondering why im being so hasty... my mother is constantly down my throat about this; "thats a brand new driveway and your f*cking it up by working on your truck on it, why dont you go work on it in the road. Do you have three thousand dollars to pay for a new driveway?!"
or something like that.
Anything will be very helpful,

 

[1996 fordranger 4x4 stx]

Go rent a HIGH PRESSURE power washer and don't skimp on the HIGH part!

Problem solved!

Don't mess with anything else or gimmicks or scrubbing, liquids etc etc etc

Power wash that sh*t!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[shizzy]

is this a concrete or asphalt driveway? your plan of attack will be different.

 

[marc11]

Powerwasher will work, pretreat bad stains with Cascade, yes the dishwashing liquid. Then hit it with driveway cleaner and a pressure washer. If it is a blacktop driveway, you can just have it sealcoated for a few hundred bucks and it will look like new. Although, sealing the driveway more than every few years is said to be a bad thing.

You may also want to look into why you are leaving brake fluid, paint and other fluids on your driveway, I know if my kid painted something and ot continually leaked fluids on my driveway, I wouldn't be too pleased either.

 

[funkingonutz]

ok so ill rent a power washer

 

[naford]

Try Dawn dish soap with a little water. You have to be careful with a power washer it is easy to etch a line in the concrete.

 

[snake]

I've used dawn, dawn with degreaser, dawn with anything and a scrub brush, etc for years. Doesn't really do squat to clean stains, especially big bad-ass ones like he's talking about. Might try concrete acid, but the pressure washer is the way to go.

Edit: once you have it cleaned, get a refrigerator carton or some big peice of cardboard or plywood and put it down before working on the car. Makes cleanup easier, just prop the board up against the wall until next time.

 

[94STXRanger]

If its concrete, FYI, never put rock salt on it or ice melt. You will pop the top of the concrete like crazy. If its asphalt, shoulda got concrete.

 

[Explorin94]

Sulfuric acid will work on getting the stains out of the concrete. Put it on and scrub if need be then wash off with water.

 

[Simple_serf]

Concentrated muriatic acid.

I currently work in building maintenance, this is what I use when concrete areas are in need of severe cleaning/whitening.

Be careful, It will burn/corrode everything it comes in contact with (including you).

NOTE...The above ONLY if it is concrete...

If asphalt, just leave it.

 

[Dangeranger3]

Its sounds like asphault. If it was mine and it was asphault, I'd just reseal it. Or just get some flat black rattle cans, j/k. I don't know how well all those chemicals work on asphault, but cardboard and kitty litter work great to prevent stains.

 

[Ranger5.0]

i worked in the paving buesness for 6 years. Pressure wash it...thats a bout all you can do. If its REALY BAD you can pay to get it properly repaired. Coating it is a bad idea. Ashphelt isnt solid like cement, it will flex and move. If you seal it with cheep driveway paint the coating will crack and look like shit. if all else fails you can call a paving company and ask for it to be sandsealed.

 

[skinner]

I remove stains from the my floor the same way i do from clothes.
Spray them down with wd-40, let sit about 30 seconds, COVER it with dawn or something equivalent...scrub mildly, then power wash away.
It works ok on stains on the driveway...ONLY way i know how to get grease out of clothes. Seriously, spray the stain with WD40, let sit about 30 seconds, COVER in dawn soap...very gently scrub, then throw in the washer.

 

[AllanD]

sprinkle Powdered diswashing detergent (the kind for automatic diswashers)
on the stains and do NOTHING else.

the hardest thing for most people to do is nothing.

All you gotta do is WAIT.

AD

 

[swamprat]

TSP Tri sodium phosate, get it at lowes. I use it in my garage to get oil and grease up. Spray down the driveway and sprinkle on trouble spots and use a brush to scrub it in.