Hallo Leute, hope you all enjoyed the snow.
I have got a question regarding pavement snow removal. This morning, I removed the snow on the pavement next to my house (blue box in the photo), it was quite okay initially. I basically did it at the same time as my neighbor.
But you see now my pavement is accumulating snow but not my neighbors’ (red boxes in the photo).
I’m wondering if you have any suggestions in this little competition for me to match my neighbors’ results?
P.S.,
I cleaned it using a broomstick, but my neighbor was using a snow shovel. It was mostly the same results after the exercise but somehow the differences is huge now. I can’t believe it is just because of this. But maybe?
https://i.redd.it/f1f7qj7mjicg1.png
Posted by emptymalei
31 Comments
You also need salt
They probably used road salt or an alternative.
Your neighbor used salt, which might not be allowed, depending on where in Germany this is.
They probably used salt. Please note that the use of salt is very often not allowed. You’d have to check your towns Straßenreinigungssatzung to be sure.
They used salt which could be illegal or legal. Depends on where you live. You’ll only get the same result if you spray salt.
You could check if there are Streugutausgabestellen (mostly grey Boxes with orange lits on a street corner, often placed near post boxes) around you. We have one a few streets away for the residents. There you can pick a few Kilos of Sand mixed with salt. Or you could sprinkle some sand/ ash/ gravel. That will not clear the snow but avoid people slipping.
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Park your car on the pavement. /s
Schneebesen.
Stupid language.
But seriously a brush.
Roadsalt
As a German expat having been living in Canada for more than a decade, I do not see any snow in this photo.
A car was parked there and then drove away. Look under the other cars with snow on them. Snow fell on the car and not on the road because the car was in the way.
First shovel and sweep, then salt, then gravel.
Hair dryer
Salt can harm the feet of dogs and other animals, due to how it changes the freezing point of the water.
Do not use salt.
Bruv, across was a car parked and since it hasn’t snowed – the tire marks are visible
This won’t necessarily solve your problem, but will save your back. Invest in a tarp and shovel your snow onto it, then you can pull it across the snow like a sled wherever you want to dump it. Saves so much energy pushing snow around.
Your neighbour obv used salt which is illaged in most towns in Germany.
Flammenwerfer
Cars were parked there, nothing more.
i use salt even if it is not legal. When i bought it i did not know, so i’ll use it until it finishes. I bought it 4 years ago, takes long to finish
Your neighbors had a car standing there when it was snowing, you didn’t. Simple as that. The spots are precisely car-shaped, so the salt answers here are bogus
The too red circle was a car. The other could be salt, but It could also be due to something in the ground warming the pavement a bit
There probably was a car on the other side
The top red circle looks like there was a car
Hello Canadian living in Germany here, I have some experience with snow. So many people are not understanding the question due to the circle looking like the post is about the parking spot. You need to just keep clearing it and I’m pretty sure they are using snow melt / salt. A shovel is best, when people walk it compacts the snow making it harder to clear and creates ice spots. A snow shovel will scrape the ice off from the bottom making it easier to clear the next time. Personally to me it doesn’t look like you’ve cleared it at all.
Was a car parked there in the time between cleaning – Snowing?
A parked car could have heated up the ground so that the snow is melting now
Use road salt mixes, shops sell them in buckets and even bag of 10kg. Clean the snow and then sprinkle with salt solution.
It’s like chemical solution that help to dissolve snow and ice.
Verlängerungskabel …und dann wegföhnen!
So the upper one is just a spot where a car was parked 🤣
For the neighbor on the left, he most likely used salt.
@OP: if you lay salt, the snow will likely go away
1. Shovel
2. Broom
3. Salt/Sand
And yes, in my hometown salt is been allowed to use!