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Moving to the North Metro? What a Minnesota Winter Asks of a Homeowner
For new arrivals from warmer states: what winter here actually demands of a homeowner, mechanically and honestly, before your first November.
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Iceworks guides and answers on winter prep.
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What Is a City Plow Ridge (and Why It Blocks Your Driveway)
You cleared your driveway, then the city plow buried the end of it under a wall of packed snow. That wall has a name — the plow ridge — and dealing with it is part of real snow removal.
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How to Prepare Your Driveway for a Minnesota Winter
A little fall prep makes the whole winter easier — for you and for your snow crew. Here is a practical pre-season checklist for North Metro driveways.
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Why We Don't Salt — and What to Do About Driveway Ice
Salt seems like the obvious answer to driveway ice, but on residential concrete and asphalt it often does more harm than good. Here is why Iceworks is salt-free, and what works better.
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Blowing and Drifting Snow: Why an Open Lot Needs Different Handling
Why wind refills some driveways and ignores others, what the Anoka Sand Plain has to do with it, and how clearing an exposed Lino Lakes lot differs from a sheltered Blaine cul-de-sac.
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Ice Dams vs. Driveway Ice: Different Problems, Different Causes
Ice on the roof and ice on the driveway get blamed on the same winter, but they are different problems with different causes — and different people to call.
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Why the First Snowfall of the Season Catches Everyone Out
The first storm of a Minnesota winter is rarely the biggest one, but it is reliably the worst-handled — for reasons that have little to do with the snow.
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What to Do to Your Driveway Before the First Snow
Everything on this list is a twenty-minute job in October and a miserable or impossible one in December — here is the order to do it in.
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