Floor Sweeping Compund

[tightwad_wrencher]

Does anyone have any in-sight on these products and how they work with oil spills in an unfinished concrete slab? I'd like to move away from "oil dry" aka clay and pig mats are pricey.

 

[RivennHewn]

They are not intended for oil absorption.

 

[tightwad_wrencher]

That's what I was thinking after reading about a few products. I'll have to become a better pouring technician.

 

[BigSteve63]

Look for a product called Chem Oil Away - kind of a light weight oil dry product that does a great job. if the stain is deep, you can put a little solvent on it before putting the product down. Has cleaned up a lot of spots in our warehouse.

You can order this with a strainer screen to sift out still good material.

 

[Spareparts]

We got a product that was basically ground up corn cobs, absorbed about twice as much as the normal floor dry, BUT it was so light that if you left a door open on a windy day it was all over the place. Bad thing was I bought 20 bags of it. Good thing was that it would start a good fire in the wood stove when it was socked up with oil with hardly no residue/ash.

 

[Spareparts]

The sweeping compound you referred to was used to control dust when sweeping, and does a good job of that, it was used in a lot of early wood floor buildings/warehouses, it would shine the floor like it was waxed. We had a plumbing supplier in a 3 story wood building that used it for probably 50 yrs. and it caught fire, that was the hottest and quickest fire I ever seen.

 

[Gotcha640]

We used kitty litter at the machine shop, and I cleaned up some big spills there (over 10 gallons of industrially dirty oil). Not sure what alternatives there are that could compete on price and effectiveness. Is this at home or in a shop?

 

[tightwad_wrencher]

We used kitty litter at the machine shop, and I cleaned up some big spills there (over 10 gallons of industrially dirty oil). Not sure what alternatives there are that could compete on price and effectiveness. Is this at home or in a shop?

This is for a detached home garage. I'm just tired of the clay being a little bouncey when Sweeping and getting everywhere. Walls don't have sheet rock.

Thanks for all the advice from you all. I might have to upgrade to a better shop vac to **** up all the stragglers.

 

[owenst7]

Stardust is a good product. Its a little more than a buck a pound at Fastenal.

Clay works well, but I hate when it gets rained on and turns in to a muddy slip and slide.

 

[Cyberbear]

One of our customers was a floor sweep compound maker, and all they did was grind up scrap wood, add a little mineral oil, color and fragrance, and you had what was needed to catch the usual floor dust, and make the floor a little shiney in the process.
I've poured a little lacquer thinner on my concrete floor which pulled out the soaked in oil, then used saw dust to soak up the dirty thinner. It worked pretty well.

 

[i4ni]

Sweeping compound is used to help capture dust and dirt to prevent it from getting airborne thus keeping it out of your pudding.(if your having pudding at that time)

 

[sberry]

Pine sawdust and a little water makes a good dust compound.