Grit / magic ice melt

NickDragon

Try this site...

world wide web..... "parrs.co.uk"

followed by.....

/src/snowshovel2/lkid/325/product-PARRS-Magic-Ice-Melt-Original-I107.htm

Sorry - newbie, can't be trusted with links yet!! :eek:

cannyClaire

digp wrote:

So where can I get grit from in readiness for this winter, which will be as bad as last winter?

Places like Wickes are selling basic rock salt at the moment.

CharlieBilly

I saw poundland today had some stuff like this in a long tube thing in motoring section. Cant see it lasting very long

cootambear

OMG here we go with the usual !!!!!!!!. It matters not to me whether salt is used for businesses to trade, or for people to get to to work, both seem good value for a few kilos of salt.

As for the `enviromental damage`, I`m sure someone will enlighten us all all all about the global warming/cooling impact,

Poosmate

Grit bins are placed (usually at strategic places) for the public to use. The grit is for public use on public highway - not people's own private driveways, although Council's don't employ "Grit Police" so they are unable to stop the general public from using it on their own drives.

In an ideal world it would be great if the public were to use the grit on the public footways or the dodgy road junctions in the immediate vicinity of the grit bin to help all road/footway users. Unfortunately, very rarely does anyone take control and actually use the grit for where it is truely intended (to benefit the whole community).

There is usually a valid criteria for the placing of grit bins on roads not on a routine gritting route. This could be at the top of a hill or the bottom of a hill (or half way up if there's a junction there), or an area where there are elderly folk.

It's been many years since I worked for a major council and dealt with many winter maintenance issues so not sure what the criteria is nowadays.

I do know that when the grit bins were put out (starting October) we used to get many complaints from residents as no-one seemed to want them outside their house and if we took them away and had snow there would be a deluge of complaints that there was no grit bin.

No council, with all the best will in the world, will ever please all of the people, all of the time.

The council I used to work for would grit minor (non routed) side roads only if there was a funeral from a proprety there.

Please also bear in mind that, during extreme weather, the guys that go out in the gritters overnight are the same workforce who carry out "normal" business during the day (hence previously media quoted huge salary earnings for some road workers in previous years). This means that often the councils are working with a much reduced staff (manual workers) during the days.

Please cut your council some slack during those times. Lets try to help everyone if this winter is anything like last year. And remember, many councils were running very low (if not run out) of rocksalt last winter, we need to use it sensibly.

Poo

auntieginzy

Bought some of this on recommendation of a friend. It is stunningly good! Although it seems dear you only need to use a very little amount and mine came in a plastic container with a kind of shake system built in. It really is great and the small container we bought will last a couple of years I reckon.

lostinrates

Poosmate'spost seems on the nail to me. where we used to live the grit bins were removed because people did their driveways and not the roads. Bags were delivered instead to parish council members and a few other people near key areas to grit the roads/junctions. (consequently the parish council had clear drives I was the only sucker who put it on the roads!)

This winter we have moved and I bought 1 tonne of grit myself for domestic and business use. I ddn;t expect to need it so early and wonder in retrospect if I should have bought more...would it keep a season or would the salt leech out/disappear?

welshsue

we went to our local Focus on Monday and bought 8 25k bags of winter grit (4 for us and 4 for neighbour), not cheap £7.00 per bag but we were fighting over the last 8 bags with another customer. That was the last in store and they didn't know when they would get anymore. I live in rural mid wales and we have no salt bins around here, left to grit ourselves out of our own pockets.