Cleaners & Efflorescence Removal

 

To remove oil, fats, grease and tire marks from un-sealed substrates requires a degreaser/surfactant concrete cleaner specific to these stains.  These cleaners will emulsify stains, and when the stain is suspended it can be extracted (occasionally repetition of degreaser/surfactant may required). Removal of suborn hydrocarbon stains can be achieved by an enzyme action.

With unsealed concrete you may find it very difficult to remove all stains because of mavericks, like burnt hydrocarbons, that have infiltrated into the matrix of the concrete making them inert (a material that will not react to a chemical emulsion).  At such times mechanical extraction may be required, or alternately, camouflaged by coloring the surrounding areas, or covering with an overlay or topical coating.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. As such, the best solution is for preventing stains from discoloring and damaging your concrete is to seal it first – before stains have the opportunity to penetrate into the substrate.

V-Scrub HD Industrial Concrete Cleaner is an industrial strength cleaner designed to tackle even the toughest cleaning needs on most cementitious surfaces.  Effective on oil, rust stains, tire marks and harshly blemished concrete.

ReKrete Waterless Concrete Cleaner is a finely granulized waterless concrete cleaning compound integrated with active cleaning agents and chemically engineered bio-organics designed to breakdown hydrocarbon petroleum matter with no harmful effects to plants, humans, animals, or soil from concrete without the use of water as a carrier, catalyst, or neutralizing agent. ReKrete is a DRY powder spread with a broom that requires no rinsing or removal and is a valuable solution in sensitive environmental areas and locations with water restrictions.

StoneClean Concentrates is for daily industrial degreasing & commercial surface prep with true pH7, for daily use in food-service areas/high-traffic settings that will not injure rugs, woodwork or metal and for removal of tar and grease.  StoneClean 60 for marble, tile and stone, StoneClean & Strip for heavy duty cleaning prior to sealing, and StoneClean 104 with perfectly balanced pH7 for restaurant and commercial cleaning and degreasing.

EASY Efflorescence Removeris a newly developed product that replaces conventional mineral and organic acids for the removal of efflorescence. EASY Efflorescence Remover is a non-fuming, phosphate-free, and does not contain hydrofluoric acid, bleach, abrasives, caustic, mineral acids or petroleum distillates.  And yet, it’s more effective than acids at dissolving efflorescence salts (and removes oil/grease stains).

Gel Stripper is a non-toxic industrial strength and consumer friendly paint, urethane, epoxy and acrylic stripper made with 100% American grown soybeans. The low evaporation rate and its gel formulation make it possible to remove several layers in one application. It will not lighten any acid stained, color hardened and integrally colored concrete surfaces (will lighten or remove solvent dyes and water-based stains)  and contains no methylene chloride, is not an alkaline based stripper and cleans up easily with water. Unlike more traditional paint strippers it lets you work without the odor.