How to remove 64 oz of laundry detergent/fabric softener from cement floor?

[lapinluv]

Somehow my bottle of Tide detergent/fabric softener fell off the dryer and spilled on the floor. I'm guessing it fell when I was drying my laundry at 8:00 this morning. I only found it at 5:00 p.m., so it has been sitting there all day. I've used about 5 towels, mopped it twice, got on my hands and knees, but it's still slippery around the washer/dryer.

Any ideas on how to get it all up? I don't have a slop sink, so the mopping is a bit difficult and seems just to make more suds and slipperyness.

Help! This is the 4th huge mess I've made this week. DH is ready to have me locked up until after I deliver. Pregnancy clutziness is really setting in now.

 

[Alice28]

I feel like I saw on some show once that if you pour cat litter on it, that that will help absorb some of it, and then you can just sweep the cat litter up. Hope that helps and doesn't create a bigger mess! I know what you mean about pregnancy clumsiness...that & some days I can't remember my own name!

 

[MICKEY88]

maybe kitty litter sprinkled on top would absorb it...

 

[Serena]

LOL, you had just better get in bed and stay there.


All that mopping isn't good for you. Have hubby do it.

 

[LMC]

Well since it is inside your house you are limited. I would continue sopping it up with clothes. Then throw those in to wash (no detergent needed!).

Once you get most of it up, use damp towels to wipe up the rest of it until it is gone. It may take a few days to get it all. If it were me, I would surround the area with towels and pour water on it then wipe it up with more towels until it was all gone.

 

[lapinluv]

Thanks to all the advice. I have no kitty litter, so I'll try LMC's idea.

This is less than 24 hours after I covered DD, the dog, myself AND the dining room in spaghetti sauce. I think more bedrest is needed!

 

[wdisneyaholic]

I agree with the kitty litter approach. I know that at work this happens alot (Target). We use what they call absorb it. It is what our cleaners use. Kinda of a flaky stuff in a bag that absord it and then we just sweep it up. I do not know where to buy that though. I would think it would take alot of towels etc to clean that up and adding water to it just make sit worse. Try the kitty litter before you add anything with water.

 

[Jenn Lynn]

Stop doing stuff or your house will be destroyed!

I hope you get it cleaned up.

 

[KimR]

UGH! If it were me I think I'd just move.

 

[LMC]

since you don't have kitty litter would flour absorb it?

it would be messy but at least the goo would be absorbed then you could sweep it up, then mop.

 

[luvindisneyworld]

Did you ever figure out anything that would get it up?

 

[lapinluv]

No, I've let it go. I got up 90 percent of it yesterday, but it's still slipper. We have French drains and the basement is unfinished, so DH is going to try the hose. I think I got too much of it up to use the absorb it or anything like that. It's just a thin coating on the floor that keeps sudsing up. If the hose doesn't work, then I'll drop some absorb it on it. DH is going to make a Lowe's run.

 

[Maddle]

Try white vinegar to cut the slipperiness of it. I know it will cut through suds.

Maddle