Removing oil stains without hot water?

Is EBC cost effective? I hardly ever do commercial

$32 bucks and some change for a gal of concentrate. On average contractors are using 12-18 oz per 5 gal of water and either ds'ing or xjetting. If you are just spot cleaning (oil/grease spots) then I reckon you would go with a pump up for pretreating.....agitate and hit it with your washer.

As far as cost effectiveness.....you would be the one that would need to answer that.

Example Driveway cleaning - $175.00

1 gal = 128 oz's You use 16 oz's on the driveway. Gal of EBC = $32.50.

Cost of soap for job $4.06 (bump this up another buck just to factor in the shipping cost to the equation). Now you are at $5.06 for soap.
 
Is there a way to remove oil without hot water? Of heard of using a stiff brush plus detergent and then spray. Much appreciated if anyone can help me out.

Chemistry is far stronger than temperature. There are many soaps that will work, which one depends on the situation. Anything you can get on the surface full strength will do some work.
 
Chemistry is far stronger than temperature. There are many soaps that will work, which one depends on the situation. Anything you can get on the surface full strength will do some work.
Yep...Gonna try ebc, sw1000, bt200, bd200 f18. Getting calls for oil stains.
 
Yep...Gonna try ebc, sw1000, bt200, bd200 f18. Getting calls for oil stains.

I have tried all of those but with EBC we find it only have to apply it once and job is done.
 
Glad to hear this....

Me too.

That's one of the problems by me, I have to travel to keep busy, and going back to finish a job is an extreme hassle. Let me ask you this Carlos. One of the products I mentioned, claims that their oil stain remover keeps on working deep into the concrete, eating the hydrocarbons until the shadow and everything is completely gone. Is this how EBC works? I am getting calls for oil stains and I have turned them down because I am not confident that I can get them out satisfactorily. I plan on ordering a gallon or two and using it on a driveway where the customer doesn't expect the stain to come out and usually never even mentions the stain.
 
Trying to dig up some pics of a fresh oil stain on concrete. EBC was applied or just sprayed on. No agitation and left overnight. Following morning the stain was gone. I think in most cases, when you are dealing with new oil stains you have a better chance in "lifting" it off the concrete with your degreaser....whether it be EBC, BT2K or other stuff.

The longer the stain sits and is allowed to seep deeper into the pores of the concrete will dictate how much of it will get clean.

As a rule of thumb, I always under promise and try to over deliver on all jobs. Stains on concrete are a funny animal...each job is different as you know and the results unfortunately cannot 100% be predicted or guaranteed.

Relating to the hydrocarbons and etc.....I am assuming you are speaking of BT200. Good product and will lift those stains but as Doug mentioned you need to have patience and/or your customer needs to have patience when using it. It is not a shoot, dwell, rinse type of soap. It needs time to allow the stuff to work. EBC is different.....we blend some unique degreasing agents in the formula that starts working immediately, whether it be petroleum or food base grease. There are a ton of before and after pics over on the EBC FB page that show different scenarios relating to grease.

Quick video showing how EBC works as it makes contact with grease on a dumpster pad.

 
Don't leave the customer anything,if what you give them works they may feel empowered.Then next time they will try to do it themselves.
 
Don't leave the customer anything,if what you give them works they may feel empowered.Then next time they will try to do it themselves.
Yeah I know. I'm overthinking again. It's probably not a good idea to leave a spray bottle full of chemicals in a customers hands. Got to get practice at getting the stains out, then I'll be able to come up with the right protocol.
 
Yeah I know. I'm overthinking again. It's probably not a good idea to leave a spray bottle full of chemicals in a customers hands. Got to get practice at getting the stains out, then I'll be able to come up with the right protocol.

Leave them a spray bottle full of a placebo. haha
 
Yeah I know. I'm overthinking again. It's probably not a good idea to leave a spray bottle full of chemicals in a customers hands. Got to get practice at getting the stains out, then I'll be able to come up with the right protocol.
Hey just curious what ever happened with your testing? I've been looking at those same chems you mentioned. Thanks.
 
I have come to the conclusion that oil stains do not come out(fully). You can get the top layer off and still see a shadow. The best combo is a EBC and hot water. I have been using Dragon Juice and got a fresh oil stain out the other day. Probably 95%. still a little shadow. The bt 200 has been around but never hear anything about it because it is not feasible to go back to a job every few days to re apply.
 
I have come to the conclusion that oil stains do not come out(fully). You can get the top layer off and still see a shadow. The best combo is a EBC and hot water. I have been using Dragon Juice and got a fresh oil stain out the other day. Probably 95%. still a little shadow. The bt 200 has been around but never hear anything about it because it is not feasible to go back to a job every few days to re apply.
A lot of marketing kung fu with fancy words to sell more product. I think I read on here there is one proven method to get up oil stains: a jackhammer. LOL Have you seen the YouTube video of the guy that pours gas on the stains then uses a hand held blowtorch and "burns" them up?

Seriously though, thanks for your reply. I think we're all in search of the magic chem but as you said, it only gets the top layer. Thanks Ralph.
 
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