Al Carrell: One of the most common problems that almost everybody has is oil or grease spots on the concrete driveways and in the garage. It's really fairly easy to take care of, even with an older grease spot. Now this is a fresh spot and the first thing you want to do is to wipe up the excess that's on the surface. And once you get that done you start with the magic formula. What you're going to do is take paint thinner, and pour the paint thinner on the spot, and saturate it real good. The reason you want to do that is to make it liquid and even though this has got an oily residue, when we put the next step, which is to pour cat litter over it, and then spread that out real good, so that you've got a nice layer over the oil spot. And now, if we just leave that there overnight, when we come back we're going to be able to sweep it up and the oil spots going to be gone. Sometimes you have to do it twice but usually the first time is all it's going to take. All right, we've waited overnight, so now let's take a look at it. And it looks pretty dog gone good.
It's easy to do but let me recap. First of all you wipe away any excess that's on the surface, then you saturate the spot with paint thinner, and then you can use any kind of an absorbent, we used cat litter, but you can use baking soda, corn meal, dry sand, anything like that, and then after you wait 24 hours and sweep it up, if you've still got a spot there, put a little laundry bleach on top of it. That will probably take car of it.
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