We had Sea Bass last Saturday, dined out under the stars on a warm Cyprus evening. Lovely! Quite a lot left over and finding ourselves surrounded by approx 9 homeless village cats, we decided to share from our bounty.

Ann lovingly found an old plate on which to place (no pun intended) the fish remains and put it down on our new crazy-paved path. The cats loved it! After a brief territory dispute they settled down and ate.

Fishoil on Crazy pavment

The following morning, nothing was left except two fish heads, some loose bones, a few scales and … some nasty oily stains on the path! Ann tried everything. All the usual household cleaners. To no avail.

I put my protective clothing on and moved in with some industrial strength Path and Patio detergent I happened to have in the shed and didn’t want to waste. Several scrubbings and gallons of water later – stains still there! (The “before” photos, incidentally, were taken at this stage.)

Ok, time for drastic action. I took some “before” photos, went to our depot and “borrowed” some  Nanolia PreClean and  AG Removal Gel .

No fishoil on paving – thanks to Nanolia Preclean and AG Removal Gel

The Preclean – applied diluted 1 part preclean 10 parts water got most of it off pretty quickly. The AG Removal Gel lived up to its name and removed the rest. I just brushed it on with a stiff brush, worked it in, left it a few hours and then rinsed off while brushing with a stiff broom. This really was a tough task, but Nanolia succeeded where everything else we tried had failed.

Now that the path is clean again, we’re taking steps to protect it properly against everything by applying a coat of Nanolia Concrete Protect. I should have done this in the first place of course.

Lesson learned!

NB: As a founder of Nanolia, Bob is of course rather proud of the products.