Been Experimenting With Carlos' Secret Sauce (CSS)

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I bought some about a month ago. Mixed it at maximum recommended strength and tried it on some oil stains on our shop floor (there are plenty to choose from).

I just sprayed it on the first stains, no agitation, 10-minute dwell, then flushed with hot tap water. Didn't expect much and it didn't do much.

On the second stain area I sprayed it on, waited 10-minutes, resprayed and agitated it, and just left it. The next day the stains were already disappearing and by the third day substantial progress had been made. So I sprayed and agitated again. By the end of the week they were gone, turned to sort of a white film. Didn't take any photos.

About this time I received a call from a homeowner with a really nice home in a very upscale subdivision. He was upset over some nasty oil stains on his exposed aggregate driveway that had been left by a Ram pickup that'd been parked on there over the winter.

He'd already tried and tried to get them off using his own cold water machine, a Zorro Nozzle, and various degreasers.

After giving him our standard oil stain best effort disclaimer, I asked if I could experiment at no charge with a secret eco-friendly product. He agreed and also told me, without asking a price, to clean all his concrete surfaces (driveway, sidewalks, patio, porch, etc). With respect to that, and as with all of our customers, we treated him fair.

The photo that follows was Before we got to it, but After all of his efforts.
BEFORE.JPG

So I drove out to his place and treated the stains with CSS, let it dwell for 10 minutes, resprayed/agitated, and left.

We returned about five days later, resprayed/agitated, let it dwell for 10 minutes, then sprayed the driveway with our normal cleaning mix. The we hit it it hot with the SC and then hot again with the lance. The after photo follows.
during.JPG

As you can see, some of the stain shadow remained (concrete was still wet), but it looked much better in the flesh than in this photo. When the customer got home from work he was ecstatic and sent me the following email. The quote is exact.

"OMG, you guys did a
FANTASTIC JOB!!! I'm so
happy with your work!


I wanted to continue experimenting and see if we could get it even better. He agreed, so I returned to his home and sprayed and agitated it again. So much oil came up out of the concrete that he phoned me that night and was concerned that we had made it worse. Of course, I told him not to worry (should have done that in the first place).

Left it for another week, then returned and hit it hot with the lance.

The final after photo follows:

DURING OR AFTER.JPG


Concrete was still wet in photo.

That night he sent me the following text:

"Dude, you rock, I'm staring at it (his driveway) and can't believe my eyes"

Yesterday a friend of his called and asked that we clean the concrete at his home (3,800 SF) and didn't care about the price because he'd been told that we were good and that we were fair.

I intend to continue experimenting, but two things are known.

1) Long dwell time, which leads to

2) Tremendous opportunities for upselling pretreatment services.

Carlos, I'm sorry I didn't use your product name here, but I want to keep that a secret from the world. In fact, the homeowner asked me two or three times what it was. I told him if I told him that I'd have to kill him. He opted to not know.
 
Thanks guys. It's great when a product really pleases a customer.

Carlos, a couple of questions...

First, are there any circumstances when you use it at full strength?

Second, after it's diluted with water what's the 'shelf life'?

Very few on the full strength. I have found and also others that when diluted at 50/50 we have achieved similar results. However there are some KEC contractors that use EBC and I am not sure how they are mixing it or not when dealing with heavy, heavy nasty grease.

I have had mixes sit in a 5'er for well over a week and have not lost the "punch" of the mix since originally mixing. There is no shelf life with EBC by itself.

Great questions.
 
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