Remove Driveway Tire Marks

Remove driveway tire marks with oxygen bleach. Driveway skid marks also come out with T.S.P.

Other products handle brick and concrete driveways.

There are several solutions you can use to remove the tire skid marks from bricks. Here are a couple products I tried with success just the other day.

Sodium metasilicate, commonly known as oxygen bleach, has recently received lots of press as a safe alternative to household bleach. We have used it for years as an alternative to trisodium phosphate for deck cleaning. It is now on TV infomercials and comes with a citrus cleaner that may be an alternative when attacking the skid marks.

You do not have to watch TV to purchase these products; most hardware stores carry equivalent products from different manufacturers.

Mix up a quart of the oxygen bleach per the package recommendations for deck cleaning. Apply it with a soft scrub brush and wait several minutes. Reapply one or two more times about five minutes apart. On our drive, the black tire marks easily rinsed away.

Another product that worked well was StarBrite’s INSTANT Black Streak Remover. It comes in a 22 oz. spray bottle that worked as well as the oxygen bleach. I sprayed it on and let it sit a few minutes, hit it with a soft scrub brush then hosed it off. It is more expensive to use if you have a lot of area to clean, but if the areas are small it works great.

The Black Streak Remover is also very handy for plastic patio furniture and vinyl seat cushions where other cleaners failed.