Commercial gritting in Redhill

Business estates, apartment blocks, care homes and colleges in Redhill, gritted to an agreed winter plan.

Commercial gritting in Redhill takes in offices and units at Holmethorpe and Kingsfield, apartment blocks in the centre and at Royal Earlswood Park, and the care homes, schools, college and churches. We grit their car park walkways, entrances, ramps, steps and fire exits by hand whenever frost or snow is forecast.

Redhill has a lot of shared ground. The centre has seen a run of higher-density flats, and Holmethorpe is the borough’s largest industrial estate, so plans are often agreed with a managing agent or estate manager rather than one owner. As a gritting contractor we keep it simple: one written plan, one log, sent wherever it’s needed.

Commercial gritting in Redhill’s business estates

Holmethorpe takes in the warehouse units at Foxboro Park, and Kingsfield Business Centre mixes offices with industrial units. Our gritting services cover whatever part of the site falls to you: the walk from staff parking to reception, the loading area, fire exits opening onto side paths, the disabled bays. An estate manager can put several units on one itemised plan, and a single tenant can book their own.

Damp ground in the centre, steep sand at St Johns

Redhill’s centre is built on flat, once marshy ground beside Redhill Brook, and it stays damp. Surfaces hold moisture and glaze over quickly, so car park gritting in Redhill’s centre begins with the low corners where water gathers. St Johns is about 30 metres higher, on sandy ground broken by steep hillocks, with the church on the most prominent of them. Sloping paths and steps up there are treated along their whole length, because ice on a gradient is the worst kind.

Commercial gritting in Redhill: your questions

Anything else, just ring. You’ll speak to the people who do the work.

We manage several blocks of flats in Redhill. Can they all go on one agreement?

Yes. We walk each block, mark the communal paths, car park walkways and bin store routes, and put the lot on one seasonal agreement with a separate figure per block. That keeps each service charge simple to budget.

Our residents go out with walking frames. What gets treated first?

The routes they and the night staff use: the ramp, the main entrance and the path from staff parking. In snow we clear those by hand and then salt them, and we keep salt off the lawn where residents sit out.

Our college has a lot of entrances. Do you treat them all?

Every one you put on the plan. Most sites choose the main doors, routes from parking, steps and ramps between buildings and fire exits, each marked so your site team knows what’s been done.

Should we pay per visit or for the season?

Per visit suits an office prepared to bet on a mild winter. A seasonal agreement, usually November until the end of March, suits care homes and apartment blocks whose budgets are fixed a year ahead. Either way it’s set down in writing first.