I have a customer who had a trash can set on fire on sidewalks about 4-6 months old. Any suggestions on chemicals to help clean this up? I believe most of the melted plastic has been scraped up already and we would just cleaning up ash and soot from the fire.
Grill cleaner is designed to clean the soot. I don’t know any brands I’m pretty sure you can get it at any box store.
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I would try the following:
3lb Sodium Hydroxide in 1 gal water (this is a strong mix - be careful - pour beads into water not water into beads). 1 cup TSP, 1 cup dawn. Pump up spray on, deck brush, dwell 10 min, spray another application, scrub , dwell 10 min then rinse with hot water.
If that does not do it, then try EBC straight, scrub, dwell, hot water rinse.
Might take several applications.
Most grill cleaners are sodium hydroxide based. If you want Home Depot has started selling a restaurant grill cleaner. It comes in 1 gal bottle. I use that and amp up the hydrox by adding more when dealing with really nasty restaurant pads/dumpsters/grease pits.
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That’s good to know thanks.
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I would bet you a surface cleaner and hot water will take it up
Wow thanks for the replies everyone. I was planning on trying to use our hot water machine and surface cleaner first then stepping up to chems if needed. It’s about an hour away so I wanted to go with some chemical options in the truck as well.
They have two options - one is more expensive than the other and stronger as well. I’ll be able to tell you tomorrow what the brand name is when I pick up the rig from the shop to go do jobs.
Cool. Thanks.
