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Cynthia Lawrence

Salting your driveway? Here's when you should actually be doing it for maximum melt

Salting driveway with shovel.

If you’ve recently had heavy snowfall and are battling icy conditions, you’re probably faced with the task of removing ice from your driveway. Although there are many de-icing methods, salt is the most common and quickest way to de-ice a driveway, making the area safe.

But while we tend to sprinkle salt all over icy surfaces, waiting for it to get to work, it turns out that we’ve been doing it all wrong. According to experts, there is an ideal time and right way to apply salt on our driveways — and it’s not when we think.

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