Winter Services
Don’t put your safety or that of your clients, employees or residents at risk. Ensure continued site access in Winter and comply with Health & Safety regulations.
Our winter services include snow clearance and gritting of car parks, fire exits, footpaths, pedestrian walkways and access roads for commercial and residential properties of any size.
How can we help?
Building 287-288 Aviation Business Park
Christchurch Dorset BH23 6NW
Professional gritting and snow removal
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Gritting
As with everything at HDGS, we use professional equipments to spread the salt evenly and efficiently.
We use white marine salt, which is a renewable resource, and unlike brown salt, it reduces residue left in carpets and other internal surfaces.
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Snow Removal
Mechanical and manual clearance of snow for pedestrian access, walkways to and from buildings, car parks and fire exits.
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Quality
We use the Met Office OpenSite Premium Data forecast service, which is a postcode specific report delivered daily, covering a 24hr period, ensuring
When do we grit?
Our Met Office OpenSite Premium Data forecast provides a daily forecast with colour coding to help identify hazards and aid winter gritting decisions by focusing on:
Road Surface Temperatures (RST’s)
Road State
Rain (for salt wash off)
Snow
Service will be triggered where the RST is forecast to be zero degrees or below and a pre-agreed risk threshold is breached, taking in consideration your site location
We visit each site within the next 24 hours, spreading salt in advance to prevent ice and snow build up.
Our GPS trackers and map system gives our clients detailed reports of our gritting and winter service visits.
How do our gritting services work:
Every morning at 7am, we receive our detailed weather report for the next 24 hours, which are individual for each postcode we cover, and takes in consideration things such as site exposure, proximity to sea, altitude and other conditions that can affect surface ice forming on access roads and paths.
When Road Surface Temperatures falls below 0 degrees Celsius and frost, ice and/or snow are forecast, you will receive an email notification confirming that the gritting services have been activated for the day.
Our teams uses a state of the art GPS tracking system to optimise our routes and visit every property within the 24 hours prior to the icy conditions, spreading white grit salt, which is a cleaner alternative to brown rock salt, that can damage flooring and stain carpets.
If snow removal is required prior to gritting for it to be effective, HDGS uses powerful petrol powered snow plows and blowers, ensuring all access routes to and from your property are safe and ice free.
At the end of the month, you will receive an itemised invoice, with the date and times of each visit.
Our teams work 24/7, completing over 5.000 gritting visits per season, keeping residents, visitors and staff safe over the winter months.
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Building 287-288 Aviation Business Park
Christchurch Dorset BH23 6NW