Commercial gritting in Salfords

Business parks, office car parks and village sites in Salfords, gritted by hand on frosty mornings.

We do commercial gritting in Salfords for the business parks, with their office car parks, unit frontages, walkways and fire exits, and for the village’s school and nursery, care home, church, hall, pub and hotel. Entrances, ramps and paths are salted by hand ahead of a forecast frost, and in snow the routes are cleared before they’re salted.

Our Horley base is two and a half miles south, so Salfords is close at hand on a frosty morning. The council counts the Salfords estates among the two largest in the borough, so this is a busy working village.

Car park gritting in Salfords’ business parks

The council describes Salfords Industrial Estate as several estates and business centres, among them the IO Centre, Orchard Business Centre and Astra Business Centre. Perrywood Business Park, on the old Monotype factory site, combines big units, offices and light industrial premises, and Fairlawn Enterprise Park adds fourteen warehouse units. Through the winter, staff walk from the bays to reception before sunrise. As your gritting contractor we treat those walkways, the entrances, disabled bays and fire exits before the first shift, and agree with the landlord or tenants which shared routes are on the plan.

Commercial gritting in Salfords beside the stream

Salfords sits on Weald Clay, and the Salfords Stream runs through the village and can flood in autumn and winter. The Environment Agency’s gauge here hit its highest recorded level on Christmas Eve 2013. Clay drains slowly in any case, so after wet weather the edges of car parks and paths near the stream stay damp for days, and one clear night turns that into a glaze. When we walk a site we note where water lies, and those stretches are salted first, the evening before the cold arrives.

Commercial gritting in Salfords: your questions

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

Can you grit the village hall before an evening party?

Yes. We’d come in the late afternoon, before the temperature drops and before the first guests arrive, so the path and the patio steps are treated for the people leaving late as well.

Our pub and hotel have guests at all hours. What would you treat?

The car park walkways, the main entrance and the route to the rooms, plus any steps down to the garden. We’d grit in the evening so it’s working for late leavers and early starters alike, and return during a long cold spell.

Our unit shares a walkway with three others. Can the cost be split?

Yes. We quote the shared route once and set out each unit’s share in writing, or quote the landlord for the whole block if that’s easier. Either way the shared path is treated at every visit.

When should we arrange a winter gritting contract?

October is ideal, because it leaves time to walk the site and agree a written plan before the season starts in November. Later is fine too.