Preparing for winter in the UK
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- 26-09-2019
Preparing for winter in the UK
The roads around the UK can get very difficult in the winter months. For this reason, it is essential to think about getting ready and preparing what you can so that you don't get caught wishing you had made those preparations earlier.
You can expect the temperatures to drop drastically in the winter and there is going to be ice occasionally, and snow. For the most common de-icing solution, people overwhelmingly turn to salt for the job. Putting salt on the road can help people drive easier, get more traction, and it helps make things safer.
Melting the snow and ice
Rock salt is what is said to work best for melting the snow and ice. Eventually, when the rock salt is sprinkled on the road, it will turn into a liquid brine. The salt continues to seep down, contacting the ground underneath, and it also spreads outward so that it can break the bond between the cold surfaces and the ice that's there.
Road de-icing
With the help of de-icing, it makes it possible to remove entire sheets of compacted ice and snow. But not only that, but it might also prove valuable in preventing the ice from forming in the first place on surfaces. It is better to be prepared so that you can avoid trouble on the road. This is why local authorities will move once temperatures get colder, often setting teams up within 24 hours on standby when the bad weather hits.
If the weather starts to get too terrible, then you might want to just think about staying in because you never know what can happen on the road and it's better to be safe than sorry. But if you need to drive, then you will want to be sure your car is ready to travel in that weather.
If you need some extra air in the tire, a shovel if needed, or you could put hand warmers or a first-aid kit etc. Think about what you might want or need if the worst occurs and you are stranded in bad weather.
Take the time to inspect the fluids, windshield wipers, do you have good tires? It also couldn't help to have an emergency car kit on your vehicle, in the trunk perhaps.
We all know that the winter is going to come and with that, it means we will see snow and rain and terrible weather on a variety of days. Taking the time to be sure that we are prepared is going to help to keep our loved ones and us safe all through the winter season.
This is why it is important not to overlook maintenance checks or to think about how we might want to be prepared if such an event happened where we found ourselves outside or stranded in the car etc.
Think about how you might want to be safer in the winter months and planning ahead can help you to get there and to prepare so that you aren't left with regret, wishing you had done something different.
We offer rock salt spreading throughout Aberdeen, Peterhead, Dundee and Aberdeenshire. Follow the link below to find out more about the areas that we offer road gritting in north Scotland.