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Commercial Snow Removal in Lake Hallie

Commercial Snow Removal in Lake Hallie, Wisconsin.

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What a Commercial Snow Removal Job Looks Like in Lake Hallie

Lake Hallie is the clearest example in the whole area of a town hitting a maintenance milestone together. A driveway laid in 2004 has now been through twenty winters. If it has never been sealed, the surface is spent but the base underneath is almost certainly sound, because it was built to a modern subdivision standard rather than thrown down in the 1950s.

That's the best-value job in this trade, and there are hundreds of them here. It is also why we would rather quote a whole street than one drive: neighbors on a 2000s cul-de-sac are usually all due in the same season, and doing several at once takes the trip cost out of each one.

Commercial Snow Removal specifically in Lake Hallie

Snow plowing is centered on Eau Claire, and Lake Hallie is close in at about ten minutes. Ask about the coming winter. The wide modern drives that make this a good sealing town are also the ones with the most square footage to clear, which is worth thinking about before the first storm rather than during it.

The Lots and Surfaces in Lake Hallie

Lake Hallie sits between Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls at the junction of US 53 and Highway 29, with the Chippewa River along its western edge and the regional airport on its southern border. The lake itself is an oxbow, a piece of the river's old course. The village only incorporated in 2003, which is why so much of it feels, and is, new.

Lake Hallie

We work the whole village rather than a named handful of neighborhoods.

Around Lake Hallie: Hallie Ball Park, Peace Memorial Park, Old Abe State Trail, Lake Hallie, Chippewa Valley Regional Airport.

Same freeze and 48-inch footing regime as the neighboring cities. The village sits on Chippewa River valley outwash, so the ground drains quickly, and the newer subdivisions were generally graded properly when they were built.

From our jobs

Job Photos

A plow truck with a red blade pushing a wave of snow across a commercial lot in daylight
Clearing a lot mid-storm
The plow truck and a Bobcat with a snow pusher working a lot at night in falling snow
Night plowing: the truck and the Bobcat pusher

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Plowing is where a lot of asphalt damage comes from.

A blade set too low scrapes the surface and takes the sealer with it. A blade that catches a catch basin frame lifts it, and now you have a spring repair. Piling snow in the wrong corner means meltwater runs across the lot and refreezes where people walk, and then does the freeze-thaw cycle to your asphalt fifty times over one winter in exactly the same spot. None of that is difficult to avoid. It takes knowing the pavement, which is the same knowledge the rest of this site is about.

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Questions We Get in Lake Hallie

What Lake Hallie calls us about, answered straight.

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Several of us on the street want ours done. Is there a discount?
Worth asking about. Most of the cost of a small job is getting the crew and the equipment there, so tell us when you call if several of you want it done the same week. Lake Hallie is the town where this comes up most, because whole cul-de-sacs were built in the same year.
Is our village drive different from one in Chippewa Falls or Eau Claire?
Usually yes, and in your favour. Over 40 percent of Lake Hallie's housing went up after 2000 and nearly seven homes in ten are detached single family, so the typical drive here is wide, modern and sitting on a base built to subdivision standard. In the older cities we spend more of the estimate working out whether the base is still there. Here that question usually answers itself.
Do you plow residential driveways?
Yes. Driveways, parking lots and walkways, residential and commercial, around Eau Claire.
When should I line up snow plowing?
Before the snow flies. Call, tell us about the property, and we'll talk through what it needs for the winter.
Does plowing damage asphalt?
It can, and most of the damage is avoidable. A blade set too low scrapes the surface and takes the sealer with it, which undoes in one pass what sealing was meant to protect. A blade that catches the lip of a catch basin frame lifts it, and that becomes a spring repair rather than a winter inconvenience. Neither is difficult to avoid; both come down to knowing what is under the snow.
Why does the ice sheet form in the same corner every year?
Because that is where the snow gets piled and that is where the meltwater runs. A pile put in the wrong corner sends water back across the lot, where it refreezes overnight and thaws again the next afternoon. That spot then takes the freeze-thaw cycle dozens of times in a single winter while the rest of the lot takes it a handful, which is why one area ages faster than everything around it.
We just had the lot sealed. Can it be plowed this winter?
Yes, once it has cured, and a sealed surface actually plows better than a raw one because the blade rides on a tighter surface. What matters is blade height and what the plow is riding on: fresh sealer scraped by steel set too low comes off in strips. Shoes or a rubber edge deal with that, and they are worth asking about whoever does the plowing.
Does road salt damage asphalt?
Salt does far less to asphalt than it does to concrete, which is worth knowing before anybody spends money on the wrong problem. What salt really does to a lot is keep the surface wet and cycling through freezing rather than letting it stay frozen. Water in an open crack, freezing and thawing repeatedly, is what actually takes pavement apart. Sealed surfaces and filled cracks are the defense, not a different de-icer.
What does a plow do to a catch basin?
Finds it, usually the hard way. A basin frame that has settled below the asphalt catches a blade coming across it, and a frame that has been lifted proud of the surface catches it harder. Either way the impact loosens the collar around the structure, water gets under it, and by spring the ring of asphalt around the rim is coming apart. A basin that is level with the surface going into winter is the cheapest thing you can do about that.
Should we mark the edges of the lot before winter?
It helps, and it is what stops an edge getting broken off. Asphalt is at its weakest at the edge because there is nothing beside it holding it in, and a blade that runs off the pavement into the grass takes a piece of the edge with it. Markers at the corners, at the catch basins and along any island cost almost nothing and save the repair.

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