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On Tuesday we got ice overnight. Coated everything. Later in the day we got a little pellety snow, followed by rain. That actually made the ice less slippery. Thursday night we got three or four inches of fluffy snow. Cindy shoveled a bit in the morning, then I took ten minutes and made a path to get my car out. In the evening, I spent 20 minutes and shoveled the rest. Easy work. The ice was still there under the snow, though.
I had put some salt down, so yesterday I chipped some ice up, and put down more salt. It's been around freezing all weekend, so the ice was melting pretty well in the sun, and the salt helped loosen it from the concrete underneath. Now I've got most of it up. It's going to be at or above 40°F for the next three days, so I would have left it if we weren't having company over today.
When we moved in here, the previous owners had left behind an old bag of rock salt. Our ice melt stuff ran out last year, so I've been using this stuff. It's natural salt, and it fairly big pieces. It seems to melt only what it touches, so all over the ice are pieces of salt sitting in little craters. If enough ice melts that I can scrape it all up, all those pieces of salt go into the grass. It may be natural, but it's not very efficient. I'd like to crush it to make the pieces smaller. Not sure if I'll bother to figure that out. I'll need to decide whether it's a bigger waste to throw it in the trash or put it on the driveway and then in the grass. I think the bottom half of the bag has all "melted" into one solid block of salt, so maybe it won't last very long.
I had put some salt down, so yesterday I chipped some ice up, and put down more salt. It's been around freezing all weekend, so the ice was melting pretty well in the sun, and the salt helped loosen it from the concrete underneath. Now I've got most of it up. It's going to be at or above 40°F for the next three days, so I would have left it if we weren't having company over today.
When we moved in here, the previous owners had left behind an old bag of rock salt. Our ice melt stuff ran out last year, so I've been using this stuff. It's natural salt, and it fairly big pieces. It seems to melt only what it touches, so all over the ice are pieces of salt sitting in little craters. If enough ice melts that I can scrape it all up, all those pieces of salt go into the grass. It may be natural, but it's not very efficient. I'd like to crush it to make the pieces smaller. Not sure if I'll bother to figure that out. I'll need to decide whether it's a bigger waste to throw it in the trash or put it on the driveway and then in the grass. I think the bottom half of the bag has all "melted" into one solid block of salt, so maybe it won't last very long.
