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Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 10:54 pm
by Ian
Or buy them another house?
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:10 pm
by bongolow
Thanks for all the suggestions - plenty to go at there.
why not replace the bricks.
Could be the last resort!
Or buy them another house?
Well, I've offered to swap houses (mine on the edge of Manchester, hers on the edge of the Lake District) but for some unfathomable reason she doesn't rate that idea very highly. Can't think why.
Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 11:42 pm
by ramtopgirl
This may sound really daft and its probably not viable but I'll throw it into the mix anyway. ORANGE PEEL! It works a treat on removing oily tar you pick up on your feet sometimes at the beach, no I'm not taking the pith, it really does work, well on skin anyway!
If you don't fancy removing the peel from a lorry loead of oranges try the suggestions given in these links
http://www.ehow.com/how_113258_clean-oil-spots.html
http://www.ehow.com/how_113267_remove-stains-brick.html
If you put in 'remove oil stains from brick' into say Google, Ask, etc etc, quite a good selection comes up.
Anyway hope you find something to do the job. If not, how does your friend feel about a painted driveway?
RAMTOPGIRL
Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:32 pm
by dobby
suspect it will be all the bricks!
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:22 am
by lez
Nice idea mike, can you do mine? I need about 200 replacing the way my cars have leaked/buckets I've knocked over............
B&Q Patio cleaner was about a fiver when I bought some, BIG red tub, look in the dusty building section, or ask a half trained orange tellytubby.
Its useless BTW for black engine oil, but does bleach your red patio bricks back to red, for a while, before they go a bit white on top (chemical residue?) for a while, giving them a nice pink.........
Works better on concrete.
How about using the jet wash to blast away the sand from around the affected brick, remove it and turn it over, thinking of doing this with all my drive...........
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:30 pm
by bongolow
Got some 'Thompson's Oil & Drive Cleaner' from B&Q today - supposed to be the bees knees, if a little grammatically ambiguous (one for the pedants among us). Also got some turps and cadged a power washer for the weekend so Ill give them a whirl.
Thanks again for the suggestions.
Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:41 pm
by dreamwarrioruk
lez theres nowt you can do with your drive im afraid except concrete it over then paint it with oil resistant paint.
bongo appears to be running a treat now. stripped out air pipes and breather cleaned em up with degreaser and dropped oil out (not onto the road) and started anew. finally finished at 1.45am and ran it today no probs yet.
fingers crossed.