Snow Clearance

Commercial Snow Clearance

When snow arrives, keeping people, vehicles and deliveries moving can quickly become a challenge. Complete Gritting Services provides professional snow clearance for businesses across the UK and Ireland, helping to restore access and minimise disruption when winter weather hits. Our local teams are available to clear agreed areas using appropriate equipment, backed by the support of our national network.

Snow clearance can be provided as part of a wider winter maintenance contract or a stand alone service that is charged per hour, with a minimum charge of two hours.

Plan for snow before it falls

Snow clearance is much easier to manage when the arrangements have already been agreed. Whether you use snow clearance as a stand alone service or as part of your wider winter maintenance contract, we can survey your premises and identify the areas that are most important to keeping your site operational.

These may include:

• Main access roads

• Entrances and exits

• Car parks

• Service yards

• Delivery and loading areas

• Emergency access routes

• Footpaths

• Steps and pedestrian entrances

We can then incorporate these areas into your site specification, together with access arrangements, operating requirements and agreed priorities. As part of this planning, we will also need to agree where cleared snow can be safely deposited on your site. Identifying suitable areas in advance means we avoid obstructing access routes, parking spaces, pedestrian areas or other parts of your site that remain in use.

Mechanical and manual clearance

Different parts of a site require different approaches. Larger vehicle areas can be cleared using suitable mechanical equipment, whilst paths and areas inaccessible to vehicles can be cleared and hand finished by our teams.

Complete Gritting Services provides both snow clearance and path clearance with hand finishing as part of its winter maintenance offering. Where required, cleared areas can also be treated with salt to help manage the risk of remaining or subsequent ice.

Helping keep your operation moving

Snow can affect much more than the journey into work. Blocked entrances can prevent deliveries. Inaccessible car parks can affect staff and customers. Snow-covered paths can make pedestrian access difficult, whilst disruption to loading and service areas can quickly affect normal operations. Our role is to help you minimise that disruption and restore access as quickly and safely as conditions allow.

Where snow clearance is planned in advance, key decisions about priority areas and access can be made before severe weather arrives.

Local help from a national company

Complete Gritting Services operates through Complete Weed Control's established network of local teams across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. That gives us the capability to support individual sites as well as organisations managing multiple locations.

For regional and national contracts, each location can have its own snow clearance requirements whilst being coordinated through one wider service agreement and a dedicated sales director.

Part of a complete winter service

Snow clearance can be commissioned on its own or work alongside a wider winter maintenance package, including:

• Forecast-led gritting to help manage frost and ice before hazardous conditions develop

• Path clearance and hand finishing for areas where mechanical treatment is not appropriate

• Salt bin provision and filling to ensure salt is available at key points around your premises

• GPS and online service records to provide evidence of completed winter maintenance activity

• 24/7 management and backup to support our service throughout winter