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Parking Lot Sanding For Manitoba Climates
A Must For Winter Maintenance
Doing some routine maintenance such as parking area sanding enhances grip, driving conditions and safety for your customers and staff members. At D&M Land Services, we can keep your parking area, sidewalks as well as roads and laneways clear with timely and efficient service.
Ice-covered car parks can be a dangerous concern for cars and also pedestrians alike. Manitoba’s climate can easily damage parking lots whether it be snow that has condensed and then thawed and refrozen, from freezing rain, or from the slippery conditions left immediately after clearing snowfall from a car park with heavy machinery. A parking lot left with no treatment can cause a variety of incidents such as car crashes and pedestrian slip and falls, both of which may find the property owner held responsible. It is D&M Land Service’s objective is to aid reduce the chances of such problems from occurring as well as maintaining your parking area in a safe condition at all times.
Sanding Your Parking Lot - Important?
Accidents Are Easy To Prevent, Expensive To Fix
Making the effort and sanding a parking lot is essential for property owners on several levels. From a security standpoint, ensuring a parking lot has sufficient traction will greatly help prevent automobile collisions and pedestrian falls from occurring. The people involved in these unpleasant incidents could be tenants, employees, clients, as well as the general public.
If the property owner does their due diligence by making sure they maintain a risk-free surface, they are showing everyone making use of that car park that their safety and security is of utmost importance to the property owner. If a collision or slip does occur within a sanded car park, the business owner can easily prove they have done everything in their power to help stop these sorts of incidents from taking place, which will greatly serve to help their cause from a liability standpoint.
Our goal is to ensure you don’t get caught wishing you had sanded your lot!
Scheduled Parking Lot Sanding
Hassle-Free Sanding On Schedule Or By Request
Manitoba parking lots are normally subject to large variations in temperature throughout an average winter. We recommend your lot should be sanded several times a year in the cold months! Normally we sand after every parking lot snow removal operation, as well as when the weather fluctuates between warm and cold temperatures giving us aggressive melt and freeze cycles.
We also recommend to apply sand after several snowfalls accumulate and compact snow on your property. We recommend that on average your parking lot should be sanded between 10-20 times per winter season. Adding this to our standard snow removal service can help save you time and money!
For peace of mind we offer worry-free scheduling, so if you want us to automatically sand every time we do snow removal we can easily accommodate.
Parking Lot Sanding - What We Do
We've Been Doing This A Long Time. We've Got You!
At D&M Land Services we use environmentally clean and safe materials on your property. There is a large variety of safe and acceptable sanding products to use. We normally recommend a 3-5mm rock chip product as this gives the most tire and foot traction for parking lots. That being said some parking surfaces may be quite sensitive, such as parkades or covered parks with special coatings, so in those cases other acceptable products could include finer sand or ice melt or a special mix of both.
Sidewalks and walkways should also be sanded in winter. If the sidewalk is particularly wide, different specialized equipment is used for this application. Walkways are often sanded by hand, or with various other equipment specially designed for these applications such as a spin spreader, or vehicle tow units. Upon request we also rent sand barrels to leave on your property so people on site daily can use the sand to spread around any trouble spots as required.
Spreading a sand product to a parking area in Manitoba is highly recommended over using salt in our region. Salting parking areas and laneways is much more common in areas with average higher temperatures, as the salt will have a much greater effect when it has warmer temperatures to melt away any snow or ice accumulations. For the most part, Manitoba is far too cold in the winter months for this strategy to work effectively, so doing an application of sand or possibly a mix of the two is more cost effective and much preferred and it will still result in the traction needed to help prevent accidents caused by slippery surfaces.
