Snow Removal
As fall outdoor maintenance services transition to winter outdoor services, ICON shifts gears to focus on preparing our team and commercial snow removal equipment to serve our customer’s properties. Our dedication to year-round service ensures a seamless seasonal transition, as snow removal crews are already experts at our client’s sites from their experience in maintaining grounds, irrigation, and seasonal enhancements.
ICON employs snow removal service methods and de-icing techniques that offer safer alternatives to traditional snow and ice removal methods. As experts in both lawn care and grounds management, we recognize the importance of using products in the winter months that do not comprise the integrity of your commercial landscape and lawn. This ensures that once the snow melts and lawns bloom with flowers and shrubs, the beauty of your property remains intact.
Snow Removal
With our extensive fleet of snow removal equipment specifically designed for commercial properties, our adaptive, proactive, and proficient crews get to work when the snow starts falling. Equipped with fleet tracking technology that operates around the clock during snow and ice events, the experts at ICON are prepared to maintain your property at all hours.
The ICON sidewalk commercial snow and ice management team is specifically trained and assigned to ensure the sidewalks, entrances, steps, loading docks, and handicap ramps on your commercial property are free of snow and ice. To ensure maximum efficiency, our sidewalk crews operate both sidewalk equipment and hand shovels to guarantee every crevice, tight areas, or staircases where snow and ice could be found are removed. After sidewalks are free of snow and ice, our sidewalk team will apply the chosen liquid de-icer or granular deicing product to aid in preventing new snowfall from bonding to the pavement surface in addition to combating slippery conditions that could arise. The ICON sidewalk crews are MPCA Minnesota “Smart Salting” trained as well as E-verified and drug tested.
Arriving at a facility that is free of snow and ice during and after a snow and ice event is essential to keep your facility running as normal while keeping clients, customers, and visitors, safe. ICON heavily invests both resources and time into our top-of-the-line equipment operated by our highly skilled snow removal crews that promotes efficiency and safety while on your property. ICON snow removal equipment is dispatched and tracked via the I-Track system which allows full transparency of facility operations to both our clients and operations team. Our tracked, in-house maintained, and strategically deligated equipment is industry-leading in eliminating traditional wear and tear that all too often comes with heavy equipment. Check out I-Track Customer Management Portal that allows our clients to track when crews are on site, request additional service via our photo technology feature, and so much more!
Anti-Icing & De-Icing
Working hand in hand with our partners, ICON is dedicated to providing impactful and environmentally safer de-icing solutions when servicing and maintaining your commercial property. We prioritize the use of safer de-icing solutions for your facility, utilizing de-icing trucks equipped with tracking technology to ensure consistent and controlled application of de-ice on your property.
ICON’s anti-icing and pre-treating programs are designed to greatly reduce and often eliminate liability relating to slip and fall injuries during the winter season. Depending on weather and environmental conditions we have four liquid products in our arsenal, these products are environmentally friendly and contain anti-corrosive inhibitors. The benefits of pre-treating can be found below.
– Prevents snow and ice from bonding to pavement
– Reduces labor and mechanical removal service by up to 50%
– Does not harm turf and landscape
– Safe for concrete
– Non-tracking
– Chloride free liquid products available
ICON liquid de-icing products reduce application rates and greatly enhance the performance of granular de-icers, all while reducing the environmental impact of chlorides. With a number of commercial liquid de-icing products available, we work to consult with ICON clients to pick the most effective liquid de-icer for their property’s conditions and needs.
ICON granular de-icer is a unique mixture of 4 chlorides and 15 trace minerals that make up a solid crystal de-icer. Melting to negative temps, our de-icer is more effective, even at much lower temperatures while using 35% less product compared to rock salt. ICON granular de-icer is an environmentally friendly blend of organic chlorides that gives our commercial de-icer a pink hue color compared to traditional road salt that is white in color. Our road salt is an optimal solid crystal de-icer shape, reducing bounce and scatter and resulting in 35% product use.
The rise of chlorides in our environment has become overwhelmingly evident in our waterways, vegetation, and landscape. Chloride-free de-icer exclusive to ICON a 100% Chloride free ice melt committed to the chloride reduction in our environment. ICON chloride-free de-icer is essential for snow removal in the Midwest as it is environmentally friendly and is safe for landscape, vegetation, and concrete. Cruelty-Free & safe for people and the eco-system and waterways , it is ideal for campuses that are conscious of the environmental impacts of chlorides.
Snow Melting
Melt with us! ICON owns and operates snow melters that are deployed on our clients’ sites during the winter months. These snow melters are particularly valuable for commercial clients with limited parking spaces or snow storage capacity.. Operated by our skilled crews, our snow melters travel to designated melt destinations and can run for a few hours or up to 24 hours a day, efficiently getting the job done.
- Melts up to 14 (200yds) dump truck loads of snow per hour
- Equipment mobility results in cost savings and efficiency
- Reduces snow hauling cost as much as 40% compared to off-site hauling
- Eliminates asphalt and concrete damaging truck convoys
- Reduces liability and increases safety due to less equipment working on site
- Eliminates large snow piles on the property resulting in more parking spaces
- Melts up to 40 (600yds) dump truck loads of snow per hour
- Equipment mobility equals cost savings and efficiency
- Reduces snow hauling cost as much as 40% compared to off-site hauling
- Eliminates asphalt and concrete damaging truck convoys
- Reduce liability through much less equipment working on site
- Eliminates snow piles on property removing the need for de-icing due to freeze-thaw
- Performance- 700 yds per hour
- Portable
- High performance
- Eliminates asphalt and concrete damaging truck convoys
- Reduce liability through much less equipment working on site
- Eliminates snow piles on property removing the need for de-icing due to freeze-thaw
Snow Relocation
With access to numerous snow dump sites across Minnesota and the wider Midwest region, we offer a range of locations to haul your snow to make space on your commercial property.
With Minnesota’s reputation to be to have notoriously high amounts of snowfall in the winter months, it is important for ICON to provide a variety of resources for our clients, keeping adaptability in mind is why we have professional snow melters, relocation sites, and relocation our equipment lineup.
ICON offers snow-hauling services that are designed to fit seamlessly into your facility operations. With evening, overnight, and weekend availability, we have extreme flexibility to accommodate to our client’s needs. Sno relocation provides more parking spaces and optimizes driver and pedestrian safety and is ideal for sites that have limited parking availability with minimal snow storage options. With snow dump sites statewide in Minnesota offers our clients flexibility and cost savings since the snow can be hauled to ultra-close locations. Often snow piles on commercial properties across the Midwest can complications on site such as limited visibility in parking lots and entrances in addition to numerous parking stalls being taken up by snow piles.
Our high capacity snow blowing equipment can eliminate pushing snow over curbs onto grassy areas to open up parking spaces and prevent snow piles from taking over your commercial lot.