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Show CLEAN DRIVEWAYS FOR OIL STATION Accumulated Oil Drippings From Cars Often Become Be-come an Eyesore. Oil station driveways frequently become be-come an eyesore because of the accumulated ac-cumulated oil drippings from care being be-ing serviced. And because many of these stations occupy prominent locations loca-tions and are designed for attractiveness, attractive-ness, smutty driveways lower the general gen-eral appearance of the station. Applied to Hard Surface. Standard Oil stations in New Jersey have adopted a successful and simple means of keeping their driveways spotless spot-less which may be applied equally well to paved surfaces. AH excess oil is piped off the surface sur-face or is scrubbed quite clean with kerosene or gasoline to cut the oily deposits. A little vigorous scrubbing with a stiff brush will remove most of this oil. The surface is then flushed with a hose stream of clean water and while the pavement is still moist a little Portland cement is dusted over it. Keep Surface Spotless. In the New Jersey stations, the men in charge report that two applications each week are sufficient to keep the surface spotless. If dry cement is applied ap-plied to the moist surface of the pavement, pave-ment, it is swept over the surface with a broom. On drying this leaves the surface white and covers up the stains left by the oil drippings. One Middle West station reports that the best results re-sults are obtained by dusing the pavement pave-ment just after closing time at night. In this case the cement hardens before opening time the next morning. Whatever the particular method of application may be, the use of port-land port-land cement keeps the surface in neat shape with a desirable light color. Owners of private driveways, garage floors and automobile showrooms having hav-ing hard floors also report the method simple and effective. |