Asphalt Sealer On Concrete? Not A Problem With EATOILS™ BT200™

concrete driveway before treatment

Here's what our distributor had to say about this situation.  "The customer had hired a kid to seal his driveway for him (a brand new home in a new sub-division of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada).  He gave the young fellow the money to pick up the sealer and rollers - and he assumed the young man knew what he was doing.  Apparently, the young fellow picked up a pail of asphalt driveway sealer by mistake and he had applied it to the majority of the open aggregate driveway before he realized something was terribly wrong.  Needless to say the homeowner was quite upset."

Our local Distributor, Monty Berg of Cleaner Alternatives, in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, took the (BEFORE) picture above - for us to see what he was faced with as he tried to address the client's concerns about his driveway.  As Monty had used our products successfully for a number of years, he was pleased and confident to suggest our EATOILS™ BT200™ for the job.  Due to the ongoing cleaning action of EATOILS™ BT200™ Monty knew that the stains would be continually cleaned by the millions of tiny micro-scrubbers in BT200™ and that the deep stains could be effectively reversed in a relatively short timeframe.

"As the driveway was open aggregate concrete and only about a month old, it had absorbed the asphalt sealer quite deeply into the surface so there was a scramble to reverse the process as quickly as possible," Monty says.

First, the entire area was sprayed with mineral spirits to break up the oils in the sealer.  Then the driveway was sprayed with healthy dose of warm water and EATOILS™ BT200™ (in a 3:1 ratio).  The entire area was brushed with a stiff broom to help the product penetrate into the pores of the concrete.  BT200™ cleaned and digested not only the oils that were broken out of the sealer, but also any residue from the mineral spirits.  After an hour or so the driveway was power washed and a light spray of the product was applied to keep on working for the next few days.  After a week the stains had faded but it was still evident that something had gone wrong on the driveway - so the BT200™ treatment was repeated.  It took two more times - a week apart - to get the results that you see here in the second (AFTER) picture.  The driveway is now ready for a proper sealer.

"We now have an extremely happy customer who can't wait to recommend us and our EATOILS™ BT200™ to his friends and neighbours," says Sherry Berg of Cleaner Alternatives.

It always amazes me how some people, when left on their own, can  get into some of the worst situations!  This young fellow didn't ask the right questions in the store - and as a result, he could have caused a very serious problem for the homeowner.  Luckily for this homeowner, he was able to find the right professionals with the right product to virtually reverse the situation at a reasonable cost.

Our EATOILS™ BT200™ is exceptionally good at deep cleaning all types of petroleum oils and greases and it is ideal for cleaning and degreasing driveways, restaurant drive-thrus, garages and parking surfaces. This product is GREENER-CHOICE™ APPROVED GREEN.

For further information about this product or other items in our EATOILS™ line please come to our website at www.eatoils.com or call us toll free at 866 621 8244 (Mon. - Fri. 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Eastern Time).

Removing oil stains from pavement

One of the toughest jobs that our industrial and homeowner clients describe to us is: Removing oil stains from asphalt or pavement. Oil stains can occur from drips from automobiles, hydraulic spills, vehicular accidents and many other unfortunate events - and the stains can be very dramatic and upsetting to the property owner. Many products have been tried however, until now none have delivered satisfactory results. 

Since paving material is manufactured with a petroleum based oil (it is the binder/tar that holds the pavement together) any other oil that drops on the surface quickly becomes a part of the pavement and leaves a long-lasting stain. For sites with regular spills like parking spots, parking lots and commercial properties, the added oil can actually deteriorate the pavement over time leading to costly repairs and resurfacing.

Our clients have found that our EATOILS™ BT200™ is an ideal product for this type of problem on concrete which is actually a poured stone with a very porous finish. Oils and grease become trapped inside the pores of the concrete and it is very difficult to remove the stains with regular degreasers. BT200™ was originally designed for concrete cleaning and it has proven to be an excellent product for removing some of the worst surface oil and grease stains quickly and effectively due to its microbial cleaning action. BT200™ is also excellent for superior deep cleaning of concrete for contractors who want to seal or paint on these surfaces after cleaning.

Recently, our clients have reported similar successes with BT200™ on oil stained asphalt surfaces. Deep cleaning asphalt or pavement is a slower process than concrete due to the nature of the pavement, a mixture of stones held together with an oil based binder. Instead of cleaning the stain in a single treatment like on concrete, pavement requires several treatments over a few weeks to yield similar results. The pictures above represent the before and after shots for a spill created from drips from a car that was freshly undercoated with rustproofing fluid ( the first picture was on the second day after the spill, the second picture is 21 days later after 2 treatments and 3 good rains). We have success stories from our clients using BT200™ for car oil, hydraulic oil, food oils & grease, industrial cutting fluids, and heating oil spills.

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For further information please contact us during business hours(9:00 - 5:00 Eastern Time Monday - Friday ) at 519 621 8244 or visit our website at http://www.eatoils.com