Removing oil stains from concrete, BEST technique I've ever tried with AMAZING results! #536

Well, welcome back everybody. My name is Andrew and you're watching the Kelly's Country Life and we had one heck of an accident yesterday. So what this video is about is trying to take care of an oil stain on my brand new beautiful porch with the house that we're building right here. I had a heck of a failure on the lift yesterday. A plug blew out the side of the hydraulic pump and blew fluid and oil and stuff everywhere on the porch. I worked on it for probably two straight hours yesterday with degreaser and I've got the stain a lot lighter, but as you can see, well, it still looks quite bad, especially to be on brand new concrete. So I tried a very powerful degreaser. It did good. It lightened it up a lot, but it just didn't get the stain out. And I had a friend tell me about something we're going to try on this video right here and fingers crossed it works. If you're watching this video, it must have made some difference or I wouldn't post it. So instead of potentially ruining my porch, because I don't have a clue how this is going to react, we're going to go over here to an old oil stain that I have on my shop concrete floor. We're going to try it there. Anytime you try something new like this, go to an inconspicuous area or something like this in case what I put on today, it could make the stain even worse. You just don't never know. So let's see if this works. All right. So I didn't see any discoloration of the concrete over there after using this. So I feel comfortable using it on our porch and not having any future drastic changes in spots here worse than it already is. All right. So what I've been told works very well is to put down some gasoline. We all know that gasoline, this is not as intended use. So be careful. So stay in a well ventilated place. There's no way I would use this inside. But if you're like me, you've done a lot of mechanicing and working in your life, we all know gasoline works excellent for removing oil, grime, stains, things like that from our hands, automotive parts. I've just personally never used it on concrete before. So you put down a little bit of gasoline and you put down some of this oil dry. I bought this big bag at Tractor Supply right behind it. And then you work it in. The point is the gasoline removes the oil stain itself. The oil dries right there to soak it and the gasoline residue up so it can't place back out into the concrete. And then I've been told put a little gasoline down, put some oil dry, put a little more gas on it, work it in. And then whenever you're completely done, pour the rest of your oil dry down to soak up your gasoline itself and dispose of properly. All right. So I'm going to dispose of all this. We'll wash the porch down and see how much, if any of the stain that we got up. So all I have to say is, wow, I'm smiling ear to ear. I am. I'm ecstatic. Look at how well this worked with only one application. I'm blown away. Now you're going to see some dark spots like right here. That was already here. That is, you can see where the broom stopped, where they put in a broom finish on the porch. And we're still drying. Some of the water's drying. But the big dark oil streak is almost completely gone. This worked better than I ever expected. So there is one other technique that I'm going to try. And I'm going to start off with a disclaimer and I'm going to tell you, don't try this. But I happen to have what's called a propane weed burner. I use this for lots of different things around the property. Starting fires, actually burning weeds and doing safe weeding and not having to use herbicides. But I happen to also know that a flame like this will pull oils out of a concrete. And if you get them hot enough, you can actually evaporate those oils. And I'm wanting for this last little spot right there. Again, I'm not going to get brush strokes out, but that's an oil spot right there. And a little bit of this right here is all that's left. I could try a second treatment of gas, but I'm curious since I already have this and the porch is already dry, if I can raise that last little bit of oil. Now here's where I'm going to caution you. Anytime you get concrete extremely hot, if you stay on a spot too long, you can crack the concrete. You can actually cause it to explode and little pieces of shrapnel to come out. Nor my safety glasses, but that's why I do not recommend you heating up concrete, because if you don't move over quickly and you stay in a spot too long, well you can damage it or you can actually cause it to explode in pieces and go flying. So you got to be careful when heating concrete. Whoa, that worked really good too. That worked really good. So the main stain is almost completely gone. Again, other than the brushstroke. This is not the results I was expecting. I was hoping to make it many shades lighter. I didn't think I was going to be able to get that much oil up and the stain almost completely gone. Now the torch, there's no way I would start with that. There's just too much oil in the concrete. You've been out here for a while and you'd be overheating to the concrete to the point you would probably damage it. But for that last little bit to bring up, I did great. Which again, another round of gasoline and oil dry probably would have worked great too. Wow, let's take a look at this one more time. I am so happy. I hope I got a good before so you can see the before and after, but I mean it's gone now. I really cannot tell where the oil was. I have been struggling with getting oil out of concrete my entire life and now I have a couple techniques that'll work awesome for doing it. But this right here was oil. We all have seen oil on concrete, whether it be out in your driveway, in your garage, or whatever, and you just about can't get the stuff up to save your life. Actually until today, I have never known a technique. So hopefully you all enjoyed this video. I had to share this technique because well, it actually works. And a big thank you to my friend that told me about this because until today, I had no idea this technique even existed and maybe you didn't either. Thanks for watching. All right, I just wanted to give you a quick update before wrapping up this video. This is now two days later in the sun, so you can get a good look. Everything is nice and dry. These new spots that you're seeing right here, that is actually oil that has dripped off my lift as I've continued to clean it up. It's pretty well dry now, but look y'all, the entire oil stain that was all the way down to here, it is 100% gone. All I can see is just lines in the concrete now that was already there before.