Service
Winter
Maintenance
Seasonal Maintenance
For Icy & Snowy Conditions
Whatever the weather, we know that businesses across Scotland need to keep running smoothly and safely throughout the colder months of the year. Inex offers reliable cold weather maintenance support to clients managing commercial premises, public grounds and large private properties.
A fleet of gritting trucks, pick-ups and tractors are available to clear access roads, pathways and commercial sites — ensuring continuity in your operations, safety for your personnel and year-round care for your premises.
Services
Between October and April, we support commercial clients with gritting services using high-spec Hilltip gritters. Only white salt is used in our gritting (to avoid the dirty marks on floor surfaces that come with using brown salt) and we can also add specialist products for particular areas such as the roofs of multi-storey car parks.
All gritters are carefully calibrated to ensure an even spread of salt in all areas and at all speeds of operation.
We use the Met Office’s road surface focused OpenSite™ forecasting service to monitor client locations and make accurate decisions on when and where to deploy gritting services. The forecast is broken down by the hour and weather to enable us to judge the best time to attend in each area.
We also can provide salt and grit bins for client premises, and replenish these regularly to ensure supplies are available.
If the Met Office forecast suggests that snow is due in a certain area, we will carry out a gritting in those areas prior to snowfall — which reduces the amount of lying snow and minimises the risk of iciness from compacted snow on roads.
Inex deploys trucks and tractors fitted with snow ploughs to clear fallen snow where needed and follow this up with gritting to prevent icy road and path conditions.
If required, teams of Inex operatives also attend sites separately to clear paths of snow and re-grit as needed.
The Right Tools
for the Job
For many years, Inex has been at the forefront of winter maintenance for businesses in Scotland, and we carefully choose our equipment to ensure the best possible results and maximum efficiency.
We were the first in Scotland to use Hilltip gritting equipment, and worked closely with the manufacturer on testing and development — good example of how seriously we take gritting and clearing snow during the winter months.
For many years, Inex has been at the forefront of winter maintenance for businesses in Scotland, and we carefully choose our equipment to ensure the best possible results and maximum efficiency.
We were the first in Scotland to use Hilltip gritting equipment, and worked closely with the manufacturer on testing and development — good example of how seriously we take gritting and clearing snow during the winter months.
FAQs
Inex utilises white de-icing salt — a marine salt which is harvested from sustainable sources around the Mediterranean sea. It conforms to BS3247:2011, which is the British standard for de-icing salt. We choose to use white salt rather than rock salt as it doesn’t stain if carried by foot into the property. When requested, we can also use other products for specialist surfaces such as car park roofs.
Inex uses the Met Office OpenRoad Forecast system — used by highway agencies and local authorities across the country — which gives an hourly breakdown of the weather over the coming 24 hours. This enables us to determine the best time to service sites in specific areas and how much salt will be needed.
If there is moisture on the surface and you can’t see the salt, then the salt is doing its job. When salt is mixed with moisture, it breaks down into a solution — when the salt is into the saline solution it will continue to work.
Here to Help,
Easy to Reach
For general enquiries and to request more information about Inex’s range of services, contact our team via the online web form and we’ll reply as soon as possible.
