Anyone Know Anything About Asphault Driveways?

[BigFish]

I got a customer who claims I "spilled" oil in his driveway when I was there working. He was there the whole time and did not call me about any problem for over a week? Seems to me if I had spilled anything in his driveway he would have called sooner than that! Anyway.....there is an apparent oil stain about the size of a sewer cap in the middle of this guys driveway (and my truck was not even parked on this spot! Looks more like an antifreeze spill to me) I tried ZEP driveway cleaner today and scrubbed the hell out of it but whatever the stain is it has already started to eat the driveway in two spots? I can't argue with the guy....the customer is always right I guess!My question is what to do? Pay to patch and seal it, pay for a new driveway? (It is practically new) Does anyone out there work putting in asphault driveways and can you offer me any advice?

Thanks in advance.

[Nebe]

your going to probably have to power wash it off... I had a little spill on my driveway and the powerwasher did the trick- soak it in a strong detergent first then powerwash- if it still wont come off you might have to use some drifeway sealer and try to cover it up.

[cheferson]

Watch you dont spray away the driveway with the powerwasher. I mangled a concrete floor at work with a powerwasher

[quick decision]

I deal with about 250 customers a year in the home improvment business. I have heard just about everything you can think of. The first question is was it your truck? Do you have the same spill underneith it at your house? Does your truck even leak anything?

[Vectorfisher]

Bigfish buy a product called Tuff Stuff made by Cape Cod Cleaning Company put it on there let it sit and rinse off, this stuff is great, I use it on the ATV's and when I feel my truck motor needs some attention. If it is eating the driveway it is probably gasoline spilled from something taking the oil out of the asphalt

[C-5 CC]

give it a try full strength!

[partsjay]

BigFish, I work at a Dealership, we use Tuff Stuff on our floors all the time, works good at getting that kind of stuff out. We have cement floors not asphault, not sure if that would matter.

[tynan19]

Larry, I had my father-in-law read this post because he worked in paving when he was younger. He said that it couldn't be oil that is doing that. Asphault is made of oil and sand, so oil wouldn't eat at it. If you still havent made a decision he said the best thing would be to patch it and seal it.

[BigFish]

Thanks Tynan...I thought the exact same thing and we did decide to go ahead and patch it and seal it in the spring.

[tynan19]

No problem, it is always better to appease to customer. Good for word of mouth businesses