Cold and warm seasons alternate through the year. To stay warm in the cold weather, every home has a home oil tank built in the basement and so would your home too. However, when you have a fuel oil tank in your home, an oil spill is definitely unavoidable.
Although you try out every possible way to clean up the
oil spill, youll still find a distinctive fuel oil odor lingering in the air. Here is a step-by-step guide that will help you get rid of that disagreeable fuel oil odor without breaking a sweat.
Begin with removing the excess fuel oil that you might find pooled at certain places with the help of a wet vacuum. Do not forget to clean your wet vacuum several times before you use it again.
In case,you choose to use oil absorbent pads to absorb the excess oil, make sure you dispose them soon after youre done with cleaning the oil.
Follow it by spreading a layer of floor dry and let it absorb the spilt oil until its color is completely changed. Then, use a wet/dry vacuum to suck up the soaked floor dry. Repeat this step to ensure that the floor is completely dry.
To get rid of the greasiness, scrub the floor from all directions with a scrubber tank filled with an oil stain remover, such
Oil Gone Easy S-200. This oil cleaning agent uses bioremediation technology to clean up oil spills and so quick and effective cleanup is guaranteed.
Then, again using the wet vacuum, remove the soiled cleaner and get it disposed off. Repeat the same process until you find that the cleaner extracted after scrubbing is not dirty.
When youre done with all these steps, go ahead and open the windows, switch on the fans, or use dehumidifiers (whichever is applicable) and dry the concrete floors.
Doesnt it sound simple? Well, with all these steps well executed, you can be sure that there is no more fuel oil odor lingering in the air!
