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Commercial Snow Removal in Osseo

Commercial Snow Removal in Osseo, Wisconsin.

4.7 from 18 Google reviews

About 25 minutes southeast of Eau Claire. Free estimates, and a straight read on whether it needs doing yet.

A pickup with a red plow pushing a windrow of snow across a lot in falling snow.
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What a Commercial Snow Removal Job Looks Like in Osseo

The interchange is the story. Travel-stop and fuel surface takes a kind of punishment almost nothing else does: constant heavy vehicles, tight turning circles, fuel and oil on the surface, and no quiet season to repair in. Sealer won't stick to a fuel-contaminated apron, and that has to be dealt with before anything else happens.

Away from the interchange, Tenth Street is the commercial strip and Eighth Street carries the hospital. Those are ordinary lots with ordinary wear, and they get quoted like anywhere else.

Commercial Snow Removal specifically in Osseo

Snow plowing is centered on Eau Claire, and Osseo is a drive out. Ask rather than assume.

The Lots and Surfaces in Osseo

Osseo sits where the north and south forks of the Buffalo River meet, in Trempealeau County, and more importantly where three routes converge: US 10, US 53 and Interstate 94. For a village of 1,811 that produces a commercial profile far larger than the population, concentrated around the interchange.

Osseo

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

Around Osseo: Buffalo River, Buffalo River State Trail, I-94 interchange.

Standard 48-inch frost depth. Osseo sits on unglaciated ground like Strum, so the subgrade is residual soil rather than the sorted outwash of the Chippewa valley.

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

All job photos

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.

Questions We Get in Osseo

What Osseo calls us about, answered straight.

More questions answered
Is Osseo far enough south that the drive costs us something?
No. It is about twenty-five minutes down I-94 and we are through here often enough that it is not a special trip. As anywhere at that distance, two or three drives on the same street in one visit costs each of you noticeably less than one on its own.
We're right off the interchange and our lot takes semi traffic. Is that different?
Yes, and Osseo has more of it than a village of 1,800 normally would, because US 10, US 53 and Interstate 94 all meet here. A lot taking loaded trucks fails in specific places rather than evenly: where they turn in, where they stop, and wherever a trailer's landing gear comes down. Those spots need full-depth repair or concrete, not sealer, and the rest of the lot is usually fine. Worth walking the truck route separately from the car parking when we look at it.
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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