Commercial gritting in Reigate

Offices, schools, surgeries and care homes across Reigate, gritted by hand before the morning gets going.

We provide commercial gritting in Reigate for office car parks and entrances near the station, school gates and paths, surgery ramps, care home walkways and church paths. It’s all done by hand, the evening before a frost or early the next morning, and every visit is recorded.

We’re a gritting company four and a half miles south in Horley. The town sits in the Holmesdale valley at about 80 metres, with the Downs rising behind it, and that mix of hollow and hillside means frost rarely settles evenly across town.

Commercial gritting in Reigate on sand and on clay

The ground under a Reigate site shapes what we find on a cold morning. The town centre and the heath sit on sandy Folkestone Beds, which drain quickly, so less water sits on the surface to freeze. North of the railway it’s Gault, a stiff, dark clay, and Woodhatch is on Weald Clay. On both, rain sits on paths and in car parks and freezes into a glaze. So car park gritting in Reigate’s clay districts starts with the corners where water gathers, while in the centre we watch the shaded steps and courtyards behind old brick walls.

A winter gritting contract for schools and surgeries

Reigate has six primary schools, a secondary in Woodhatch, a sixth form college and several independent schools, so a lot of children come through a lot of gates at the same hour. We grit the gates, front paths and staff car park walkway before anyone arrives, with term dates on the plan. GP surgeries here list disabled parking and step-free access, and those routes lead any plan: the bay, the level edge, the ramp and its landing, the door. Ice on a slope is far worse than on the flat, so ramps always go on.

Commercial gritting in Reigate: your questions

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

Our hotel is on the slope up to the Downs. Does that change things?

It means more care. Rain can wash salt downhill, and a north-facing approach may stay frozen all day, so in a long cold spell we treat it more often.

We share an office building near the station. Who arranges the gritting?

Usually the landlord or managing agent, sometimes one tenant on everyone’s behalf. We’ll quote the shared entrance, steps and parking once, then itemise it so each firm can see its share.

Will you keep salt off the churchyard grass?

Yes. Salt browns lawns and harms planting, so at a church we keep to the porch, the steps and the paths and never heap salty snow on the grass.

Do you look after the grounds the rest of the year as well?

We do. Grounds maintenance is our main work, so the people walking your routes in October may well be mowing your lawns in May. It means we already know where water lies and which steps never see the sun.