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Has anyone successfully been able to get rid of the smell of aged gas? To save on detail I will get right to the point. I had gasoline being 25 to 27 years old drip on my driveway, the amount may be less than one gallon (I think)... some on blacktop some on gravel. This stuff is wafting across the yard and occasionally through open windows. The first thing I did after stopping the drip was to burn off excess with the tiger torch. Still smells. Thanks for any input.
 
Did exactly the same thing, only greater volume. Washing with hot soapy water was a waste of water, soap, time. It did eventually go away with time.
 
Realistically, it will evaporate until the volitiles are gone. Digging them up and burying the contaminated soil away from the buildings will help. Only the ash and lead will remain. Jim
 
Good Lord!

How long ago did this happen?

Gasoline fumes (which, I rather like, by the way) will vanish within hours or, at most, a day or two.

If it really bothers you, close the windows.

Dean
 
Not a chemist, so just guessing...

Maybe oven cleaner or peroxide on the blacktop.

Dig and remove some of the worst gravel, dump in some lime, cover it with more gravel.

I think it will eventually go away on it's own though.
 
How about a few gallons of E85. That blasted stuff will dissolve anything. Dig up some dirt and,mix in some E85, and get up wind and lite it with a longggg stick and some paper. The sour smell is very hard to get rid of. Might be better to just remove all of the contaminated dirt.Now if you have some old Kerosene lamps try getting rid of the stink from old dried up kerosene!! Wash the tank out with E85 and put out in the hot sun. If there is still a little smell buy a gallon of Synthetic Kerosene at depot or lowes and fill the tank. Let it sit a couple of days and throw away the synthetic kero. Also replace the wick. You have now a nice clean burning almost scent free kero lamp.
 
Hmmmm ...... I suspect that someone buried a body under your driveway the last time you were on holidays. Then they dripped some old gas on the top to hide the odor. Eventually it will disappear in maybe 30 years or so. If you can't handle the smell, you might have to exhume the body but do it legally. The coroner will look after the paperwork.
 
I don't mind the smell of fresh gas as you're saying but this old stuff is far less than pleasant and sticks like varnish. And yes fresh gas evaporates quickly but not the old stuff.
 
Someone else suggested oven cleaner, even Coca Cola and if that helps beware of drinking the stuff :) If oven cleaner works I'll post it here. Thanks.
 
Surely, you jest.

I'm almost certainly older than you and have been around gasoline (old as well as not so old) for decades.

If closing the windows is not good enough, pour a box or two of Tide on the spot.

Oops, sorry, due to the greenies, one can no longer get good Tide.

Dean
 
Hi, when painting over asphalt or cement we used to paint over a gas or oil spill with white shellac. That was after hosing it off and drying the area. That shouldn't let the smell come through. Ed Will Oliver BC
 
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