How To Clean Olive Oil Off Tile Floor

Today's post, How to Make clean Up an Oil Spill, is not almost saving the environment.  Information technology's about saving your kitchen floor!  Yesterday, I sent a drinking glass olive oil cruet crashing to the flooring and was left with shards of oil soaked glass and a huge puddle of olive oil soaking into the tile grout.  I was able to save the 24-hour interval with a simple solution.  Permit me evidence you how I did it!

A few months ago, my family gave me but the birthday souvenir I wanted:  An Olive Oil Cruet.  (Aye.  I had to look that upwardly.  I had no thought what information technology was chosen!  Did you?)

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I'yard pretty easy to delight, since they only cost about five dollars.  I accept wanted one forever, but I just never got around to buying ane.  I loved my gift.  I used information technology all the time . . . until I broke it!

Last dark, clumsy me bumped it with my elbow and knocked it off the counter onto my tiled flooring, where--you guessed it--information technology shattered.  Cleaning up broken drinking glass is difficult enough, but cleaning up broken glass covered in olive oil, sitting in a pile of olive oil is about incommunicable!  I was likewise worried because some of information technology landed on the grout.  My sister-in-police once told me that her tile grout was ruined by an olive oil spill in her pantry.  At least her grout was hidden in the closet.  Mine was in the middle of the kitchen floor.

My fantastic husband quickly googled, "How to Clean Up Olive Oil Spill," and I was saved!  (Honestly, what did we ever exercise before Google?)

Here's what to do.  (This is then cool!)

1. Pick upwardly the big pieces of glass (use a rag so that you don't cut yourself), and throw them in the trash.
2. Carefully blot up whatsoever oil you tin can with paper towels. (You tin skip this stride, but you'll use more than corn starch or oatmeal.)
3. Sprinkle the oil mess with corn starch or oatmeal and permit it to sit for several minutes.
4. Sweep upward the corn starch and/or oatmeal with the remaining glass.
5. Repeat until all oil is absorbed.

I started with corn starch, only moved on to oatmeal because it was easier to sprinkle beyond the floor.  The absurd thing near the oatmeal/corn starch was that it helped me pick up the glass as well.  As I swept up the mess, I spread the oatmeal across the kitchen floor to choice up the glass.  Maybe it was easier because the oil on the drinking glass stuck to the oatmeal.  I'm not sure why it worked, I just know that it did!

At that place was one spot on the floor (the location of the main puddle) that was left with a moving-picture show after I swept.  Instead of washing the spot with lather and water, I sprinkled on more oatmeal and left information technology overnight.  In the forenoon, I swept it upwardly, and the floor was completely clean!

At present my floor is as good as new, with no dark oil-soaked areas in the grout!

Thank you Google!  (I'd credit a blogger, but my hubby found the answer on a message lath, not on a web log.)

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