garage floor treatment, garage floor protection The house my brother and I grew up in had a two-car garage. On one side, my mom parked her car and the other side was for whatever car my brother and I were working on at the time. Like any car obsessed kids we loved tinkering around with in our case Japanese cars. I picked up a 78’ Datsun 280z for 100 bucks. Actually we towed it home behind a pick up truck.  My brother and I had to drop in a new clutch to get it back in running shape. There was no garage floor protection past the smooth cement bottom. Let me tell you, it was a messy auto operation. By the sweaty end, there was oil, engine grime and other fluids which had leaked past our newspaper shield onto the floor. The aftermath wasn’t horrible but our mom was less then impressed. We resorted to the old school garage floor treatment method of dropping cat litter on the oil to soak it up but it could only do so much.

Word to the wise to gear heads, garage floor protection is worth it. Kitty litter and newspaper only goes so far. Being a grease monkey is a dirty but rewarding hobby. Parent’s worldwide dealing with car obsessed kids have come up with their own garage floor treatments. For us, it was kitty litter.