Core service · Snow & ice

Commercial snow & ice management

Parking lots, roadways, entrances and walkways cleared and treated to a written specification — with the equipment, crews and monitoring to hold that standard through the worst events of the season.

Wheel loader with a box plow clearing a commercial plaza lot before dawn

What we clear, treat and monitor

Every site is scoped surface by surface. Priorities, equipment and timing are assigned per area so the parts of your property that carry people move first — and nothing is left to the operator's judgment on the night of a storm.

Parking lots
Full-lot clearing with loaders, tractors and trucks sized to the site, plus stacking plans that keep spaces usable all season.
Roadways & drive aisles
Internal roads, ring roads and drive aisles kept passable for residents, staff, deliveries and emergency vehicles.
Entrances & drop-offs
Canopies, patient drop-offs and main doors treated as priority-one surfaces, cleared and salted first.
Walkways & sidewalks
Dedicated sidewalk crews and machines — walkways are scoped and staffed separately from the lot, not as an afterthought.
Snow relocation & removal
Piles relocated or trucked off site before they eat parking capacity or block sightlines at exits.
High-traffic inspections
Return visits and inspections on sites where traffic re-exposes surfaces through the day.

The specification

Service triggers and response windows, set to your site's risk

A distribution yard and a retirement residence do not need the same trigger. We write the spec around consequence: where a delay means an ambulance can't reach a door, the standard tightens.

Trigger
2.5 cm or 4 cm
Accumulation trigger set per site. Tighter triggers for medical, retirement and high-liability access; standard triggers where consequence is lower.
Timing
Overnight completion
Lots cleared and salted before the property opens — before staff arrive, before the first appointment, before the delivery window.
Priority access
Named surfaces guaranteed first: emergency entrances, patient drop-offs, accessible parking, main doors.
Ice
Salting program
Scheduled and event-driven salting with application rates recorded per pass, plus walkway bins for staff use between visits.
Follow-up
Return visits
Second passes after city graders bury an entrance, or once vehicles clear the lot and expose the pavement underneath.
Record
Documentation
Time-stamped service logs, GPS tracking and photos supporting every visit and application.

Ice control

Salting and freezing-rain response

Freezing rain is where properties get hurt. It arrives fast, it coats every surface at once, and it is the single most common source of slip-and-fall claims. Ice control is planned separately from plowing: its own triggers, its own materials, its own documentation.

Salt and material supply is managed at the organization level, so a regional shortage in February does not become your access problem.

Discuss an ice-control plan
  • Freezing-rain response planned as its own event type, with its own trigger and crew assignment
  • Application rates chosen per surface — asphalt lots, interlock entrances and concrete walkways behave differently
  • Walkway salt bins placed and refilled so on-site staff can treat spot conditions between visits
  • Organization-level salt and material management, so supply pressure does not reach your site
  • Materials reported per pass: what was applied, where, at what rate
  • Zero-tolerance ice programs available where the property's risk profile requires it

Event sequence

How a storm actually runs on your property

01 · Before
Monitoring & mobilization
Continuous weather monitoring. Crews, equipment and materials assigned to routes before the first flake, with a named plan for the forecast event.
02 · During
Dispatch & priorities
Priority surfaces first, then full-site clearing. Dispatch reallocates equipment live as conditions change or a site needs more.
03 · Close-out
Completion & salting
Final pass, salting, walkway detail and a check of entrances, accessible parking and exits before the property opens.
04 · After
Review & follow-up
Service logged and documented, return visits scheduled where needed, and a post-event review on anything that did not go to plan.

Questions property managers ask

What happens when the city grader buries our entrance?

It is part of the plan, not an exception. Sites with municipal grader exposure get scheduled return passes on the entrance after the city route runs, and you can call it in as a priority request if the timing is unusual.

Do you guarantee completion times?

Where the property requires it, yes — guaranteed or priority service windows are written into the specification, including overnight completion. That is part of what the site assessment determines.

How do we prove service happened after a slip-and-fall claim?

Every visit produces a time-stamped record, GPS track and photo documentation, retained and available on request. Property managers use it directly in claim defence.

Can you handle a portfolio of properties?

Yes. Standards stay consistent across sites, with one point of contact and per-site specifications rather than one generic package applied to everything.

What if we need more service than the contract covers mid-season?

Specs can be adjusted mid-season — triggers, priorities, added walkway detail or extra removal. Call it in and we cost and schedule the change.

Your property. Our operating plan. No excuses.

Tell us about the site and an operations manager will walk it, identify the risks and return a written specification and price.