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1. 
   peteshlagor | Sep 16, 2007 07:12am | #1

   Replace it.

    

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   shelternerd | Sep 16, 2007 07:27am | #2

   We had this problem with a concrete floor. about 1,500 sf with a wax finish and oil stain on the kitchen and dining room floor. Had to strip and refinish the entire floor a year after the folks moved in. Expensive and smelly. Somehow I didn't have to do the work or pay for it because I had applied the finish called for in the specs in accordance with the floor stain installation manual.

   I believe they scrubbed the whole thing with numerous applications of lacquer thinner and stripper and then came back with a urethane sealer.

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   "You cannot work hard enough to make up for a sloppy estimate."

3. 
   Danno | Sep 16, 2007 03:07pm | #3

   I was wondering if maybe those "poultices" made to absorb oil stains from granite countertops might work. Maybe ask someone who does granite and try it?

4. 
   ponytl | Sep 16, 2007 05:30pm | #4

   is oiling the entire countertop not an option... ?

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5. 
   paulbny | Sep 16, 2007 07:59pm | #5

   Snoofy

   I don't know for sure how it would work for concrete, but I have used something called "Whiting" to remove oil stains from wood.  Specifically, oil from gunstocks before refinishing them.  It took a few applications but was very effective.  It is a powder and I mixed it with acetone and applied it to the wood.  After a couple of hours I would brush it away and let it sit over night.  If the stain comes back I would repeat the process.

   I get whiting online from Brownell's, a gunsmithing supply company.

   http://www.brownells.com/aspx/NS/store/ProductDetail.aspx?p=1133&title=OLD+FASHIONED+WHITING

6. 
   reinvent | Sep 16, 2007 08:39pm | #6

   As interior designers and real estate agents would say: "It's a living finish and will develop it's own unique characteristics and charm as it ages."