Cleaning an oil spill most common mistakes. Oil Solutions Int usually gets the call after all other cleaning methods have been exhausted. A business or homeowner will continue to see an oil stain, they will continue to smell oil or they will still see a sheen or oil residue where the spill occurred. The reason for this is the person cleaning the oil spill simply used the wrong method or product. The environmental companies will typically be called in and clean a basement where an oil spill occurred using oil dri. Oil pads and then the worst mistake, they will begin to Powerwash the basement using a soap or degreaser, this is the worst possible thing you can do and it ends up causing more trouble. Blasting the basement walls and floor with cheap soaps and degreasers take the oil that is trapped in the cement and taking it from parts per million to parts per billion, driving it deeper into the surface and making it much harder to clean, for a few weeks you will smell a cleaning detergent or soap, this fools most people and the environmental company gets paid and disappears. A few weeks or moths later we at Oil Solutions will get the call. As we explain this to the victim agreeing saying “yes that is exactly what happened”. For this type of spill we made Oil Solutions liquid. The OS liquid is applied to the affected area it finds all the oil residue trapped in the walls and floor encapsulating it, turning it into a dry non toxic sand. The odor will disappear immediately, sometimes depending on how bad the spill was you made need a second treatment, but you can smell the success of the Oil Solutions liquid working and after 1 or 2 days we always get a very pleasant call from the property owner all saying the same thing. “why didn’t they just do this from the start”
