FAQs

We grit in response to a forecast of icing using the Met Office Open Site weather forecast. It gives the icing risk for individual postcodes and triggers gritting.

We grit overnight between 6pm and 6am so sites and car parks are gritted before people arrive for work.

We use white marine de-icing salt, produced by the solar evaporation of Mediterranean seawater. It’s almost pure sodium chloride, so it doesn’t leave a gritty residue and doesn’t ‘walk in’ and stain office floors. It reaches us on the return leg of local hauliers’ trips, so their lorries aren’t running back empty.

We use high-visibility trail spreaders pulled by 4×4 vehicles ensuring we can access sites in all weather conditions.

Smaller sites and pedestrian areas are gritted using hand spreaders.

There’s no standard price list and no standing or retaining charge – what you pay depends on your site: whether it needs mechanical or hand gritting, its size and layout, and how close it sits to one of our existing rounds. To get a no-obligation quote, send us a Google Earth image of your site marked up with the areas that need gritting and any access requirements – we can usually turn a quote around the same day without needing a site visit. You then choose how you pay: per visit (you only pay when we actually grit), a fixed annual cost, or a mix of both.

We arrange for snow clearance upon request which is charged on an hourly basis. If more than 2.5cms of snow has fallen, it needs to be cleared before gritting takes place. Salt alone will not clear more than an inch of snow.

Yes. Call us now to discuss your requirements.

Not usually. Because we can measure everything we need from a marked-up Google Earth image – the areas needing mechanical gritting, the areas needing hand gritting, and any access requirements – we can normally give you an accurate, no-obligation quote the same day without a site visit.