Stain on Epoxy Coated Floor

[silber]

I am trying to lift an approximately week old brake fluid stain on my epoxy garage floor but am having some difficulties getting it up. What is the preferred method of lifting old stains such as this off the epoxy? All of my other spills have been painless in cleanup but this has proven a bit more difficult... advice would be appreciated.

PS I tried to search on this topic but couldn't find anything.

 

[porphyre]

What have you tried?

Nothing has been able to stain my epoxy floor yet.

My default "tough dirt" method is liberally splashing with full strength Purple Power, lightly scrubbing with a deck brush, letting sit 5 minutes, then adding some water from the hose and scrubbing with the deck brush until the dirt's gone. Then I rinse thoroughly and squeegee dry.

 

[silber]

I tried some basic household cleaners -- poured on, agitated a bit, let it sit, agitated again, rinsed but didn't do much. I picked up some Purple Power tonight to try tomorrow. I also tried Simple Green (don't know if this is one of the best or not). I'll try the PP tomorrow. The stain is a yellowish color and showed up when I was flushing my fluid last week. Hopefully this stuff can lift it up.

 

[porphyre]

Good luck. Just remember to thoroughly rinse the Purple Power. When used undiluted, the stuff is high power. It'll eat clearcoat off paint, corrode aluminum.... Great cleaner, though. And don't "agitate", SCRUB!

 

[rugerlady]

It may depend on what type of epoxy you used also. Was it water based or 100% solids?

 

[silber]

To be honest I am not sure -- I had these guys do the floor:

[url="http://www.colorsurface.com']Color Surface[/url]

I tried the Purple Power but it didn't do much if anything at all. Here is a shot of the stain left over. You can barely make out the yellow color running down the middle of the shot but it is much more noticeable in person. I am having the company come out next week to take a look at another issue but any other ideas before they come out?? Thanks all in advance for the help.