Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Icy parking lots and walk and driveways

[Patricia Lautner (lautnerp]

We treat our concrete walkways with salt, our wood walkways with sand, and
the walkways near the herb garden with a 'more expensive than diamond dust'
plant and pet safe salt material.  All can be purchased at Home Depot.

We set up buckets in different areas with the proper material in each to
make sure then 'diamond dust' doesn't get wasted.

Good luck,
Patti
JPCohousing - Boston
Communitas Development


On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Thomas Lofft <tlofft [at] hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Question from LIberty Village: how do other communities handle snowy and
> icy walkways and roads? I am particularly interested in places that are
> probably close to us in the amount of snow you get each year, but we have
> already had four snow storms this season and several days of sub-freezing
> temperatures.
>
> We clear our own parking lots and walk and driveways but we do not treat
> them with anything. I feel this is dangerous and want to know how you treat
> your walkways and parking lots for safety when they are icy.
>
> Collateral question: How have you dealt with concerns for only using 'pet
> friendly' ice remoivers?
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> Martie Weatherly
> martiew [at] earthlink.net
>
> Liberty Village, Maryland
> 301.538.6811 cell
>
>
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