Cleaning garage floor with snow

[glmron]

This time of year I get a lot of junk, salt, cinders, mud on the garage floor. I found a good way to clean it up, I take a couple shovels of snow and dump it on the floor then push it around with a broom for a while, after it gets brown and dirty just scoop it up and and dump it outside. Works with oil, antifreeze, brake fluid, ****** fluid, not very environmentally friendly I must admit but it works great.

 

[jlckmj]

Funny you should post that, I just did mine yesterday. Another thing that I found that helps even more than plain snow, is saw dust. After I pushed the snow around and loosened up the dirt and grime, I spread saw dust and that absorbed the dirty water. I then scooped it all up and put it in a garbage can. My 24 x 36 garage floor only needed about a 5 gallon pail full of the saw dust.

Of course, it works best if you have heated floors!

Jim

 

[PKAero]

Saw dust for me. If I had to wait to clean my floor when it snowed, then it might get very dirty.

 

[FoMoCoPower]

yup....just scoop up that oil,antifreeze,brake fluid,etc....and just dump it outside......

 

[archiehillierZ]

I just shovel the snow on my garage coz I hate cleaning it every now and then.

 

[shocksandstrutz]

yup....just scoop up that oil,antifreeze,brake fluid,etc....and just dump it outside......

no different than the thousands of cars that leave it behind on roads, parking lots and driveways and it raingin or snowing and doing the same thing.....this is just on a smaller scale....

also, i just did this too, since it just snowed here in the STL and my garage floor was a mess from building a bookcase and doing the rear suspension and brakes on my MIL's outback

 

[Dan_inthewind]

I do not have much chemicals hit the floor but like you I have been using snow since I moved in.

Open the door and just broadcast it right off the snow scoop. Let it melt and squegee the floor.

 

[LEVE]

Mix some wood ash with that snow and you've got a winner. The wood ash is a great cleanser...

 

[glmron]

yup....just scoop up that oil,antifreeze,brake fluid,etc....and just dump it outside......

I knew that comment was coming....
I like the wood ash idea.

 

[Dan_inthewind]

yup....just scoop up that oil,antifreeze,brake fluid,etc....and just dump it outside......

Actually because of the sand in it, mine goes into a bucket and when that is full it goes over the the dealership I worked at and into the tank.

I do all I can for the enviro and keeping it clean but sometimes I wonder why when you look at some of the wrecks on the road. Fuel leaks, antifreeze leaks and every other type of leak.

But I do feel better because "I would never just dump it outside".

 

[cyamaha2007]

Yep i just did mine last week. There was alot of salt/sinders mixed in. Works great.