If a customer slips outside your door, it lands on you. We grit shop fronts, entrances, car parks and walkways across Liverpool, Sefton, Southport and the Wirral. It’s all finished by 6am, so the ground is safe before your first member of staff arrives. The salt is spread by hand, which gets it onto steps, ramps and doorways properly. Send us a few photos on WhatsApp and we’ll come back with a price.
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H2o Restored is a family-run, fully insured exterior cleaning company based in Fazakerley. In winter we grit and clear snow for shops, hospitality, offices and managed property, and in the rest of the year we clean the same sites.
Because one fall outside your door costs far more than a winter of salt. A customer who slips on your step can mean an injury, a claim against your insurance and a bigger premium the year after. A member of staff going over on the way in means time off and a gap on the rota. And an entrance that looks like an ice rink puts people off coming in at all.
Most small businesses mean to do it themselves. The bag of salt sits in the back. The first person in on a frosty morning is the one who forgot about it, and they’re already on the ice by the time it crosses their mind. We take that job off your hands so it gets done every time.
You have a duty to keep people reasonably safe on your premises, and in winter that includes ice. The Occupiers’ Liability Act 1957 covers visitors like your customers. The Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations cover your staff, and the HSE’s code of practice for them says arrangements should be made to cut the risk from snow and ice. That can mean gritting, clearing snow or closing some routes.
The HSE’s advice is to grit when frost, ice or snow is forecast, or when walkways are likely to be wet and the ground is at or below freezing. A warning sign on its own usually isn’t enough. What counts is being able to show you had a system and stuck to it.
We’re not solicitors and this isn’t legal advice, so check with your insurer or adviser about your own site. What we can do is treat the ground before it freezes and give you a dated record that it was done.
First we agree a plan for your site. That might be a quick walk round, or photos on WhatsApp to 07469 539 068 and a phone call. Together we mark out the routes that matter, such as the front entrance, steps and ramps, the path from the car park, the staff door and the bin store. That plan is what we follow every visit.
When a frost is forecast we come out overnight or in the early hours and spread salt by hand along every route on the plan. It’s all done by 6am. If you open earlier for a breakfast trade or a delivery slot, we’ll work to your time instead. When frost lasts through the day or snow keeps falling, we come back to top it up and clear it.
Gritting by hand matters more on a commercial site than people think. Doorways, ramps and the edges of steps are where people come unstuck, and they’re the parts a spreader on wheels can’t reach properly. By hand they get the same even covering as the open ground.
We use brown rock salt certified to BS 3247, the British Standard for salt spread on roads, car parks and footpaths.
A time-stamped photo on WhatsApp after every visit, showing the gritted areas. Keep those and you’ve got a dated record of when your site was treated, right through the winter. If someone says they fell outside your premises, that’s exactly the kind of evidence your insurer will ask to see.
If you need it in a different format for your health and safety file, tell us and we’ll sort it out with you.
Ring or message us when you want us out. Fine for a site that only needs it now and then.
We watch the forecast and come out every night it’s due to freeze. You pay per visit, only for the nights we come. For most shops and offices this is the sensible middle ground.
One agreed price for the season covering every frost and snow day, so you know your costs up front. Best for bigger sites, managed estates and anyone who wants it off their list completely.
Yes, and you can pick whichever suits the site. Every option comes with the same agreed plan, the same 6am finish and the same photo after each visit.
From £80 a visit for a single shop front or small entrance. Car parks, long walkways and sites with several entrances cost more, so we price those on the area and the number of routes. You’ll get a written price before we start.
Send a few photos on WhatsApp to 07469 539 068 and we’ll price it up for you.
Anywhere people walk in and out on dark winter mornings. That includes shop fronts, cafés and restaurants, pubs and bars, hotels, garages, car sales forecourts and petrol stations. Offices, surgeries, schools and nurseries need it too.
Managing agents and residents’ management companies can hand us the communal paths, steps and car parks for a whole block or estate. Property managers already know us. Jump-Pad chose us from four local firms to clean the 750 m² private road at The Gables in Crosby, and you can read what they said about the job.
Out of season we do the cleaning side as well. The same team that grits your entrance in January can jet wash it in the spring. Have a look at our commercial pressure washing.
From £80 a visit for a single shop front or small entrance. Bigger sites are priced on the area and the number of routes, and you’ll get a written price before we start.
Usually within about 10 minutes for a simple site if you WhatsApp us photos on 07469 539 068. For a car park or a site with several entrances we may want a quick look first.
No. We grit overnight or in the early hours and we’re finished by 6am, so your staff and customers won’t see us. If you open earlier than that, we’ll work to your time.
It makes a big difference, but nobody can honestly promise zero ice. Salt stops frost forming and melts thin ice. It works less well in very hard frosts or straight after heavy rain.
That’s why we watch the weather closely and come back to top up when a cold spell drags on.
Rock salt is brown and a little gritty, so a bit can come in on shoes. A good mat inside the door helps. We spread it evenly by hand rather than heaping it by the entrance, and we keep it off planters and beds.
No. Taking reasonable steps is what the law expects of you, and doing nothing is the bigger risk. Having a dated record of each visit also helps show you had a system in place.
We’re not solicitors though, so check the detail for your own site with your insurer or adviser.
It depends on the winter. Some years bring a handful of frosty nights, and some bring weeks of them.
On the frost-watch plan we only come out when the forecast drops below freezing, so you only pay for the nights that need it.
Only to the outside areas on the plan. If there’s a locked gate or a car park barrier, we’ll agree a code or a key arrangement with you at the start.
We clear the snow from your entrances and walkways first, then salt the ground so it doesn’t refreeze overnight. If it keeps falling, we come back.
Yes. Managing agents and residents’ management companies can give us the communal paths, steps and car parks for a whole block or estate. You’ll get one plan, one price and a photo record for every visit.
Looking for gritting at home, or for an elderly parent? See our home gritting service, from £45 a visit.
Send us a few photos on WhatsApp to 07469 539 068 for a price, or give us a ring. We’ll agree a plan for your site, have it gritted by 6am, and send you a photo every time we’ve been.
