During winter, you need to be prepared for many surprises. From snowfall to frozen pavements, it’s one of the most unpredictable seasons of the year.
Before we face the unpredictability, we’ve found the five most interesting facts that you need to know about winter.
Depending on whether you love or loathe winter, finding out there’s actually two winters may make or break your day.
Continue reading… “Top 5 winter facts that will shock you”
The sun is breaking through and winter is a distant memory. For now at least. This means your grit bin has likely become redundant, stored away in the dark recesses of your warehouse, storage cupboard or office during the warmer months.
What if we told you that you could reuse your grit bin around the office?
Here are some of our favourite ways to reuse your grit bin during the warmer periods.
Continue reading… “Fun and useful alternatives for a Grit Bin in your workplace”
When bad weather arrives, making sure paths and roads are clear and safe is important. This is where the confusion of whom the responsibility falls on to clear streets and roads arises.
As a business owner, you want to make sure your land is safe to avoid slips or trips for employees and visitors. Do you know what is the council’s responsibility to clear? Do you know what is your responsibility to clear?
Continue reading… “Keep Cautious: Understanding the Dos and Don’ts of Snow and Ice Clearing in Public Spaces”
The UK weather is always up and down. One day it is clear, the next it is raining, and the day after it’s snowing. You need to make sure you are ready for anything.
We know that stuff like rock salt and grit are confusing. We have put together this guide to try and help you out.
Continue reading… “Let’s get familiar with Rock Salt and Grit”
The weather in the UK has well and truly taken a turn over the past month, with the milder weather replaced by freezing cold winds. As such, we expect to see more ice and snow hitting our areas soon so being prepared for the coldest of conditions is crucial.
With some help from our customer service and sales team, we have put together a short 101 on grit bins and grit based on questions they get asked by our customers around this time of year.
Continue reading… “Grit and grit bins 101: What you need to know”
Most people think salt is simply to add flavour to meals and to be used as a food preservative. However, only 6% of all salt manufactured goes into food. We use salt in over 14,000 different ways from making products such as paper, plastic, glass, polyester and rubber to household soap, bleach, dyes and detergents. Another common use of salt is to treat icy roads and paths in winter, this is because salt has a lower freezing point than water. Everyone uses salt, whether its directly or indirectly.
Continue reading… “Salt mines around the world”
Spreading salt isn’t the most glamorous of tasks, but it is important. In most cases, it is a legal requirement for business owners to properly grit their land. It can also help you avoid any expensive injury claims if you ensure your business is properly maintained over the cold winter months.
Let’s look at the key facts about salt spreaders, the different types and why they are so important to a business.
Continue reading… “The different types of salt spreaders: Which one is the best for your business?”
With winter around the corner, it is crucial to be prepared for the worst conditions we can face in the UK.
Snow and ice often grind the country to a halt. Making sure you have the correct materials to deal with it can be crucial.
We have looked at one item that we find is popular during this time of the year, probrine. It is an alternative to standard salt and has slowly become the norm for dealing with snow and ice.
Probrine is becoming a popular method used to reduce the impact that snow and ice have on our roads and pavements.
Continue reading… “How to beat the winter freeze using ProBrine”
Keeping up to date with the weather is arguably as important as keeping up to date with the news. Most of us will have a weather app or website saved on phones or computers. Whether these sites are accurate or useful is up for debate but, most of the time they will get the weather right, kind of.
There are lots of websites out there, and all can differ slightly in terms of what they say the weather will be like each day. To try and help you pick the best site and avoid being caught in surprise rainfall or heatwave, we have investigated the finer details of the sites and apps and ranked the best ones to use.
Continue reading… “The Top 5 best weather websites to check your local weather”
I’m sure you have seen plenty of ‘winter is coming’ captions from companies recently but, winter is coming, and it can throw up all sorts of weather conditions and issues for the UK.
Last winter, the UK recorded its lowest temperature in two decades, combined with snowfall in some areas, which caused havoc for residents. This wasn’t enough to break into the top 5 worst winter conditions faced by the UK.
Continue reading… “Top 5 worst winters in the UK”
