Salting Lots & Streets in Roy, UT

A plowed lot can still be the slickest place in town. The blade takes the snow off, but it leaves a thin film that packs down under tires and freezes to the pavement. Salt is what breaks that bond. It works by dissolving into a liquid brine, so dry salt sitting on a dry lot does very little until it picks up moisture. That is why salting comes after the storm and after the plow. Put it down on top of deep snow and most of it goes wherever the snow goes, including into the pile at the edge of the lot.

Pavement temperature decides how hard salt can work, and the number on your phone is not the one that counts. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the University of Minnesota both put the practical floor for rock salt at about 15 degrees on the pavement. January lows in the Ogden area average in the low 20s, so most nights here sit above that line, but the clear, cold ones can fall below it, and the shaded corner of a lot stays colder than the sunny rows. Below that floor, salt slows way down and more of it will not fix the problem.

Every lot has a few spots that cause most of the trouble: the drive entrance, the ramp, the shady side of the building, and the low spots where meltwater sits and freezes again overnight. Tell us about those when you ask for an estimate, along with when your customers or tenants start showing up. Salt should go where it is needed and no further. Too much of it washes into planters and grass strips, and salt-burned turf comes up brown in spring. We cut grass the other half of the year, so we notice that kind of thing. Send the address and we will take a look.