Snow Shoveling · December – February
Front walk, steps, porch, and the path from the door to the car — shoveled by hand once the snow stops. Small, local, and genuinely useful on the morning you would rather not be out there yourself.
What I Can and Cannot Clear
This is worth being plain about, because it decides whether I am useful to you. I clear by hand with a shovel: front walks, steps, porches, the path out to the car, the route to a mailbox or a shed. What I cannot do is a full driveway after a heavy storm — that is hours of work and properly a job for somebody with a plow or a blower. I do not own either and I am not going to pretend otherwise. For a walk, a set of steps and a short path after a normal Chester County snowfall, a shovel is the right tool and I will be there.
I work through a list, in order. Arranging it in November means you are on that list rather than calling around on the morning everybody else is.
Leave a bag or a tub by the door and I will put it down after clearing. I do not supply it — and it is worth knowing salt damages concrete over time and kills plants along the edge of a walk.
Clearing mid-storm just means doing it twice. If it is still coming down hard, I will wait it out unless you have told me you need it sooner.
What I Clear
The route from the street or the driveway up to your front door, cleared to full width rather than as a single shovel track.
Slow, fiddly, and the part of a property most likely to put somebody on their back. Cleared, and salted if you have left salt out.
A cleared route from the door to where you actually park, so getting out in the morning does not start with wading.
The short connecting paths that never get cleared by anybody and then ice over for two weeks.
Shoveling snow is hard on a heart and a back. If that is a parent or a neighbor of yours, this is exactly what the service is for.
Stated plainly so nobody is waiting on me for something I cannot do. A short apron, yes. A full driveway under a foot of snow, no — you want a plow.
What Happens
Call or text in November and we agree exactly what gets cleared. You go on the list for the season.
So I know where the step edges, path lines and plant beds are before they are under six inches of snow and I am guessing.
Once it has genuinely stopped. Walks, steps and paths shoveled to full width, and the snow piled somewhere sensible rather than back across the path.
Put on steps and walks where you have set some out, and used sparingly, because it damages concrete and the planting alongside it.
Questions
A short apron or a couple of car widths, usually yes. A full driveway after a heavy storm, no — that is hours of shoveling and genuinely a job for a plow or a snow-blower, neither of which I own. I would rather tell you that in November than leave you waiting in January.
Once it has stopped, working through the list in order. Clearing during a storm means clearing twice. Tell me if you need to be out early and I will do what I can to get to you first.
If you leave salt out for me, yes. I do not supply it. Used sparingly, because it damages concrete over time and kills whatever is planted along the edge of the walk.
Call or text before winter, ideally in November. I work from a list arranged in advance rather than taking calls the morning of a storm.
That is fine — tell me when you need it. Just know that people on the seasonal list get cleared first, because they arranged it in advance.
Get Started
Call or text in the fall and we will agree what gets cleared before the first storm.
