If you’re a property manager in the mid-Atlantic, you’re probably used to a pretty basic snow and ice management situation.
If it hardly snows at all, you say “yippee” and maybe celebrate by getting dessert at lunch.
If it snows a lot, you pay a lot. Lunch dessert? A handful of Tums.
If you haven’t signed your snow and ice management contract yet, Kevin Doleman gets it.
“When it’s 90 degrees outside, people aren’t thinking about snow,” says Doleman, snow manager at Level Green Landscaping.
Sure, head to the beach, grill some burgers, live in your flip flops. But take a few minutes to get your commercial property signed up for snow and ice management. When the snow starts drifting, you’ll be glad you did.
As Level Green Landscaping switches from mowing and weeding to clearing snow and de-icing pavement, Covid-19 cases continue to rise.
That means the safety precautions we’ve taken since the beginning of the pandemic are still in full swing, with extra measures for snow season.
“We take this very seriously,” says Level Green Snow Manager Greg Stacho. “Customers might not notice anything different, but we’re continuing to follow the rigorous precautions that we’ve followed all along.”
Here’s a look behind the scenes at our Covid precautions for snow season:
When most people get ready for winter, they dig around in a drawer for warm gloves and move the snowblower to the front of the garage where the lawn mower used to be.
Here at Level Green Landscaping, there’s a lot more to it than that.
You know that scene in the holiday movie, “Elf,“ where as soon as Santa returns from his Christmas Eve journey, the elves get to work on toys for next Christmas?
It’s like that.
We’re all so used to worrying about falling snow, it's easy to forget about melting snow.
Melting snow is good, right? It means all that slippery, slushy white stuff is going away.
But where is it going? And can it get there? And what is it doing along the way?
Interesting questions.
Lucky for you, we have answers.
You wouldn’t think a snowfall less than two inches would be a very big deal.
So why does it keep Level Green Landscaping managers up all night, our crews on alert and everybody’s eagle eyes on multiple weather forecasts?
Curious.
It’s no mystery to our snow manager, Greg Stacho.
He walks us through an hour by hour look at what happens behind the scenes to prepare for a snowfall of less than two inches — when most people are still deep in slumber.
Preparing your commercial property for winter?
If you want to prevent property damage from this winter’s plowing and ice removal, don't forget to invite your snow removal company.
There are some things we need to know before the snow starts piling up.
How to protect your property against winter damage?
Here’s how we do it.
Years ago, people predicted winter weather by counting the number of acorns that tumbled from oak trees or observing orange stripes on fuzzy woolly worm caterpillars.
These days, Level Green Landscaping snow manager Greg Stacho has a lot more tricks up his sleeve.
When a winter storm is about to blast in, everybody needs to be ready.
As a property manager, you’re a key player in making sure everybody connected to your site is well informed and prepared.
If you haven’t inspected your property lately for potholes, cracked sidewalks and clogged storm drains, grab your coat.
There’s still time before the next big snow.
Paul Weaver, construction manager at Level Green Landscaping, shares a few potential hazards you should check out before snow removal season, to keep everybody who visits your property safe.
