DIY

Cleaning Concrete Floors

ILLUSTRATION: JAMENPERCY/FOTOLIA

Cleaning concrete floors might force you do deal with something like this on occasion.

Don’t throw out your woodstove or fireplace ashes. Sieved through an old window screen, they can be mixed with clean, dry sawdust for a good compound to soak up oil when you’re cleaning concrete floors.

Bert Lemmon
White Pigeon, Michigan

Published on May 4, 2011

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