Seasonal snow and ice contracts for Calgary driveways, condo complexes and commercial lots.
We watch the radar, we roll at 5 cm, and the salt goes down on the same run.
You never have to call. You just wake up to bare pavement.
The Calgary rule nobody reads until they get the ticket
Snow stops. Your clock starts.
00:00
Watch · radar only
00:00 HOUR ZERO
The last flake lands.
Our dispatch board flips from watch to run. Every property on a seasonal contract is already on a route sheet with a truck number beside it. Nobody phones us. Nobody has to.
02:00 PRIORITY
Commercial walks, daycares, medical access.
Anywhere the public walks before 7 a.m. gets cleared and salted first. Photo log timestamped to the minute, sent to your site contact before the doors open.
06:00 BOARD CLEAR
Every residential contract is done.
Driveway to bare pavement, edges cut square, front walk and the city sidewalk you're on the hook for. Salt down on the walking surfaces before we leave the property.
24:00 THE CITY'S DEADLINE
You've been clear for eighteen hours.
Section 67 of Calgary's Street Bylaw gives you 24 hours after snowfall stops to clear the public sidewalk beside your property down to bare surface. Miss it and the ticket escalates:
First offence
$250
Second
$500
Third
$750
City clears it
$150+
Fines escalate within any rolling 12 months. If a City crew does the work, you're invoiced a $150 minimum flat rate plus GST and an admin fee on top of the ticket. Source: calgary.ca — bylaws related to snow and ice.
Six hours isn't a marketing number. It's the window written into your contract — and if we blow it, that visit is free and so is the next one.
0Calgary properties on contract last winter
0eventsTimes we dispatched the full fleet in 2025–26
0%Of runs closed inside the six-hour window
ZEROBylaw tickets on a property we hold a seasonal contract on
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Four contracts. One fleet. One invoice.
What we actually clear.
No subcontractors we've never met. Every truck on your property is ours, plated in Alberta, with a driver who's run your route before.
Driveways & walks
Single, double or triple — plus the front walk and the strip of city sidewalk that gets you ticketed. Cleared to bare pavement, edges cut square, salt on every walking surface before we pull away.
5 cm trigger6 h windowSalt included
From $349 / season
Commercial lots & walks
Loaders, sanders and a crew on site before your first shift badges in. Trigger depth, site map, stacking corners and photo logs are written into the contract, not left to a phone call at 4 a.m.
2 cm triggerPre-shift clearPhoto logsSnow hauling
Quoted per site
Condo boards & HOAs
One invoice, one site contact, and a written service log your board can drop straight into the minutes. Visitor stalls, fire lanes, garbage pads and every unit walkway on the same run.
Board-ready logsFire lanesFixed season rate
Quoted per complex
Chinook ice control
This is Calgary — the snow melts at noon and welds itself to your driveway by four. We treat for the temperature swing, not the storm: brine before the drop, pickled sand on the traction surfaces, re-treat on the back half.
Liquid pre-treatPickled sandRe-treat pass
Included on all seasonal plans
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The part out-of-town contractors get wrong
In Calgary the snow isn't the problem. The thaw is.
The chinook arch, and what sits under it. Snow that melts at noon runs to the low spot by your garage door and welds itself to the concrete by four in the afternoon.
A chinook can pull this city from −22 to +9 in a single afternoon. Everything on your driveway melts, runs to the low spot by the garage door, and freezes into a sheet by dinner.
That sheet is what breaks hips and what generates the slip-and-fall claim your insurer will ask about. Plowing alone doesn't touch it. Neither does dumping rock salt at −20, when salt has basically stopped working.
So we treat for the swing, not the storm.
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Brine goes down before the melt
Liquid anti-icer sprayed on the pad while it's still cold. It stops the meltwater from bonding to the concrete in the first place — far cheaper than chipping it off later.
2
Pickled sand on the traction surfaces
Steps, the walk to the mailbox, the slope down to a basement suite. Sand works at temperatures where salt has quit. It's what gets you to the car without a fall.
3
A re-treat pass on the back half
When the temperature drops back through zero — usually late afternoon — we come back. Most contractors are already done for the day. That return pass is the whole job.
A chinook day, hour by hour
Calgary · typical Jan swing
Air temperatureRefreeze windowTreatment pass
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No form, no callback, no sales visit
Price your driveway right now.
These are the same numbers we quote on the phone. Pick what's on your property and the seasonal price updates as you go.
Seasonal contract · Nov 1 – Apr 15$0Flat price for the whole winter. Unlimited trigger events, salt included, GST extra.
Estimate only — we confirm on a two-minute look at your address on satellite before anything is signed. Properties inside the Beltline, steep alley approaches and gravel lanes may be priced differently.
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Seasonal or per-visit — here's the honest difference
One price for the winter, or pay per storm.
Seasonal is a fixed number you can budget. Per-visit is cheaper in a light year and much worse in a heavy one — and you get cleared after every contract on the board. We'll tell you straight which one suits your street.
PRICES SHOWN BEFORE GST · CALGARY CITY LIMITS
Walk-Up
Single driveway, front walk. Smaller inner-city lots and condo townhomes.
Miss the window, that visit is free. So is the next one.
It's a clause in the contract, not a line on a website. If we don't close your run inside the window on your plan, you're credited for that dispatch and the following one. We've paid it out eleven times since 2011 and we'd rather keep it that way.
Same driveway · 18 cm overnight · 41 minutes apart
This is what "cleared" means to us.
Not a path shovelled down the middle. Bare pavement corner to corner, edges cut square against the banks, salt on the walk. Drag the handle.
Before · 06:12After · 06:53
TUSCANY · SEASONAL STANDARD ROUTE18 CM · −19 °C · WIND NW 24 KM/HTRUCK 07 · ON SITE 41 MIN
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From the first phone call to the last run in April
Four steps, then you stop thinking about it.
STEP 01
Send the address
Two minutes on the phone or the form below. We pull your lot up on satellite, measure the pad and the sidewalk run, and send a fixed number the same day.
STEP 02
Sign and you're on the board
Digital contract, e-transfer or card, four monthly payments if you want them. Your address goes onto a numbered route with a truck assigned to it.
STEP 03
It snows. We go.
Our dispatcher watches the Environment Canada radar and calls the run. No phone call from you, no approval needed. You get a text when your run is closed.
STEP 04
April 15, we're done
Last run of the season, then we're out of your life until October — when you get first refusal on the same route at the same rate.
Yard call · 03:40
Every truck on your property is ours.
No brokered subcontractors we've never met, no unmarked trucks we can't reach at 4 a.m. Same driver on your route all winter, so somebody knows where your gas meter is before they push snow at it.
14 plow trucks
4 loaders
2 sanders
41 routes
$5M liability
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222 communities · 41 routes · every quadrant
Find your community.
Type your neighbourhood and we'll tell you which zone you're in and when your route runs. Tap any community on the map, or pick a quadrant to see the whole list.
222 residential communities on the board, in all four quadrants.
Southwest
Zone SW · 12 routes
Communities
83
Trucks
5
Run starts
03:40
Board clear
05:55
Community boundaries are the City of Calgary's own, from the Open Calgary district data. Quadrants follow Centre Street and the Bow. If your address is inside city limits we service it — Airdrie, Chestermere, Cochrane and Okotoks are commercial contracts only.
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4.9 average · 318 reviews · Google & HomeStars
What Calgary actually says.
"We're on a corner lot in Killarney so I've got about sixty feet of city sidewalk. I got ticketed twice the winter before I called these guys. Zero since, and I've stopped setting a 5 a.m. alarm every time the forecast looks bad."
DMDave M.Killarney · 4th season
"Our board asked for a service log we could actually put in the minutes. They send timestamped photos after every run. Our insurer stopped asking questions at renewal."
PSPriya S.Board chair · Bridgeland
"Snowed 18 cm overnight in February. I looked out at 5:40 in the morning and the driveway was already black. Still don't know when they came."
KTKaren T.Tuscany · 2nd season
"Cheapest quote I got was eighty dollars under theirs. I went with the cheap guy one year and spent most of January shovelling anyway. Won't do that again."
MOMarcus O.McKenzie Towne · 3rd season
"I had a hip replaced in October and I was dreading the winter. They salt the front steps and the path to the mailbox every single time without me ever having to ask. That's the part I'd tell my neighbours about."
EWEleanor W.Acadia · 6th season
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The questions we get on the phone every October
Straight answers.
Still not sure which plan fits?
Tell us your address and how many people walk up to your door in a week. Two minutes on the phone and we'll tell you which plan you need — including when the answer is the cheap one.
Office hours 7 a.m.–7 p.m. Oct–Apr. The storm line is answered 24 hours during an active snow event.
Accumulated snow depth measured at our Bowness and Seton yards. On Standard and Priority plans, 5 cm on the ground sends the fleet out. On First Light it's 2 cm. If it snows 3 cm on a Standard plan we don't come — and you don't get billed.
An event over 15 cm counts as two visits on per-visit accounts. Seasonal accounts are unlimited, however heavy the winter gets.
No. That's the whole point of a seasonal contract. Our dispatcher watches the Environment Canada radar and the yard gauges and calls the run. You get a text when your route is closed, usually before you're up.
Per-visit customers do have to call, and you'll be cleared after every seasonal contract on that route — often several hours later.
Do the math on your own driveway. A Standard Route double is $545 for the season. Per-visit on the same property is $75. That's break-even at eight dispatches. We ran fourteen last winter and nineteen the winter before.
Take per-visit if you travel most of the winter, if you're physically able to handle the small ones yourself, or if you just want a backup for the big dumps. Take seasonal if you want a fixed number and no decisions at 5 a.m.
Yes, and you should add it. That strip is the one the City fines you over — Section 67 of the Street Bylaw, 24 hours after snowfall stops, cleared to bare surface. It's $95 for the season on a standard mid-block lot, $165 on a corner.
It's the single cheapest thing on our price list relative to what it saves you.
On every seasonal plan: salt on the walking surfaces on every visit, and a pickled-sand pass on steps and slopes when it's too cold for salt to do anything. On First Light we also spray liquid brine on the pad before the event.
We don't use straight rock salt below about −12 °C because it stops working. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you a bag of nothing.
The contract runs November 1 to April 15. If we get a real event outside those dates — and in Calgary we usually do — seasonal customers get one shoulder-season visit at no charge on each end. After that it's the per-visit rate.
That visit is free and so is the next one. It's clause 6 in the contract, not a slogan. We've paid it out eleven times since 2011 — twice in the April 2023 storm when we simply ran out of daylight.
If a bylaw ticket lands on a property we hold a seasonal contract on and we were outside our window, we pay the ticket.
Yes — one-time cleanups start at $95 for a double driveway, more if it's packed or been sitting through a freeze-thaw. Book by phone; we usually get to you within 48 hours outside an active event.
Seasonal contracts: e-transfer, Visa, Mastercard, or four equal payments on the 1st of November through February. Commercial accounts are net 30 on invoice.
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Booking closes when the routes fill
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