Driveway Cleaning — Ruskin Street, Elwood
A driveway on Ruskin Street, Elwood, cleaned at the end of February. Driveways never soil evenly: the wheel tracks stay comparatively clean because tyres scrub them, while the centre strip and edges hold everything else. That unevenness is the difficulty. Clean it the wrong way and you finish with two pale bands where the tyres run.
- Location
- Elwood 3184
- Completed
- 26 February 2024
- Crew
- 1 tech
The problem
A driveway carries two kinds of soiling and they do not come off the same way. Organic growth sits in the pores; oil soaks in rather than resting on top, so hosing it moves the surface film and leaves the stain. And a driveway slopes toward the street, so everything lifted off it heads for the drain.
What we did
Degreaser went on the oil first and was drawn out rather than washed along the slab. The rest was worked with a rotary head at consistent pressure across the whole area, wheel tracks included, so the finish came out even instead of banded. Run-off was contained and kept out of the drain — that is the part a fast job skips.
- Oil treated with degreaser and drawn out of the surface
- Whole slab cleaned at consistent pressure, wheel tracks included
- Rotary head used to keep the finish even
- Crossover and apron at the footpath cleaned
- Run-off contained, kept out of the stormwater drain
- Before and after photographs supplied
Result
- Even finish across the slab, no pale bands in the tracks
- Oil drawn out, not spread along the surface
- Growth removed from the centre strip and edges
- Nothing off the driveway sent into the drain
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