How to get concrete splatter off of painted surfaces

jeepinmatt

jeepinmatt

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They sell products called concrete dissolver at Lowesdepot. Any good? Better Homebrew solutions?
 
Wonder if that's Muratic Acid, or watered down. That's what is used as a concrete cleaner. Not sure what it might do to paint, although it never hurt the Concrete trucks I drove. We did wash it down good, because it can rust metal.
 
What's the painted surface? Wood, brick, steel, Porsche?? What kind of paint (latex, oil, auto, etc)?
 
The "dissolvers" are usually a thinned out muriatic acid. Depending what it's on there is a very high chance it will remove the paint as well.
Frankly there is no solution that doesn't involve repainting.

I' ma little disappointed though, I thought for sure that title sentence would end with the word "hootus".
 
kaiser715 said:
What's the painted surface? Wood, brick, steel, Porsche?? What kind of paint (latex, oil, auto, etc)?
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Skid steer frame and lift arms. If it takes a little paint off, oh well, but if it takes a lot off, then I will need to repaint it, which is a project not worth my time.
 
I seem to remember useing muratic acid and a q-tip to get splatter off my dodge. I took lots of time and gently worked it off. There were only a few spots that appeared hazy. I may have buffed them out later. It can be done


edit. also think i had bottle of water washing it off as i went to help protect the paint
 
Pressure washer
Or time. Splatter adds character
 
Time worked pretty good for me. It just wore off after several dozen washes.

Freshly fixed after the wreck and had to go to Norfolk NAS for work. They were doing work on the flight line and my truck got covered in salt water spray and concrete dust. I was real mad...hell, I even made a similar post!
 
Ron said:
Pressure washer
Or time. Splatter adds character
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Already tried pressure washer and various tips. Mostly no effect.

This is old dried up stuff from the previous owner.
 
Muriatic acid through a pressure washer inductor will dilute it but I’ve cleaned many loaders and back hoes with concrete spatter, tar, mortar, best thing is 1/4” thick scrap blade let the acid just break it up a little it should bubble the. Rinse off and scrap over it!
 
I know concrete splatter on the underside of a car comes off with lacquer thinner and lots of rubbing.
 
It would have to be interfering with the function of the machine for me to even give it a second thought. If it were though, hammer and chisel would be my method of choice.
 
awheelterd said:
It would have to be interfering with the function of the machine for me to even give it a second thought. If it were though, hammer and chisel would be my method of choice.
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Resale value. People love looking at the clean end of a turd ;)
 
Matt, I have a couple bottles in my truck of a product we use at work. It may be what you saw at the local stores. We order it by the case. Be glad to give you a bottle to try. I’ve had good results with it but does take longer to really do anything on older concrete. If the splatter has been on that thing a while not sure how effective it will be.

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Bushwhacker said:
Matt, I have a couple bottles in my truck of a product we use at work. It may be what you saw at the local stores. We order it by the case. Be glad to give you a bottle to try. I’ve had good results with it but does take longer to really do anything on older concrete. If the splatter has been on that thing a while not sure how effective it will be.

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That's what they show online at Lowesdepot but nobody stocks it in store. If you happen to be in the Steele Creek area or out by my house, I'd love to try it.
 
We use some of that green stuff. Works well enough. On older stuff kinda only does a layer at a time. Wash scrub rinse. Wash scrub rinse. Slow goings but we try to stay on top of it. Paint seems fine
 
jeepinmatt said:
That's what they show online at Lowesdepot but nobody stocks it in store. If you happen to be in the Steele Creek area or out by my house, I'd love to try it.
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Got you covered.
 
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