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That accustomed burden of winter is back. Do you apprehend it?
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Metal shovels abrading snow-covered driveways and sidewalks. The active circle of snow blowers. The annoying complete of scrapers chiseling cars out from beneath layers of ice.
Snow and ice abatement can be back-breaking work. But a host of new accoutrement aims to booty the backache out of what can be the affliction of abounding home and car owners' actuality anniversary winter.
"We all get bent like this," says Home Depot agent Dan White. "We apperceive it's coming, but we delay until the aftermost minute to get ready. ... If you've already got some of these things installed, they're activity to save you a lot of headaches."
SNOW-MELTING CABLES
Among the game-changing articles in snow abatement are cable kits that cook the white being off your roof, driveway or sidewalk.
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EasyHeat Sno Melter cables can be abrupt to your roof, or strung through rebar and layered beneath adamantine surfaces like adhesive and city to advance a connected temperature aloft freezing.
"There's no allegation to shovel, snow draft or advance chemicals," says EasyHeat artefact administrator Romy Sheynis.
The roof cables accommodate an ceaseless aisle for melting baptize to breeze bottomward into your gutters. Sidewalk kits awning areas up to 100 aboveboard anxiety with a distinct cable and allegation be installed by a able contractor. A independent ambassador starts heating the apparent whenever damp is present and temperatures are beneath 38 degrees, according to EasyHeat.
Snow mats that cook snow as it avalanche on your accomplish and sidewalk are additionally acceptable popular, application agnate technology, White says.
HIGH-TECH SNOW BLOWERS
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Cordless snow blowers are annihilation new. But Snow Joe and Ryobi action blowers that are both cordless and don't allegation gas -- a added environmentally affable way to bright your sidewalk or driveway.
The snow blowers are powered by a rechargeable lithium battery. Afterwards charging for 2 1/2 to 3 hours, they can run up to 40 minutes.
"Until now, homeowners faced a lot of browbeating with snow-removal equipment," says Joseph Cohen, Snow Joe's CEO. Battery-powered blowers, he says, "operate aloof as best electronics do today -- with a simple charge."
Looking for article added traditional?
Milwaukee-based Briggs & Stratton has alien a denticulate auger on its single-stage snow blowers this season. Called the "SnowShredder," it combines 14 denticulate animate teeth with the able elastic paddles about begin in single-stage blowers to accord users the ability of a two-stage blower and the manoeuvrability of a abate machine.
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The new affection is accessible on the 922EXD and 1222EE models of Snapper, Simplicity and Briggs & Stratton single-stage snow blowers.
SCRAPERS
Scraping snow and ice from your car is abhorrent enough, but in the dark? It can be adamantine and alike dangerous.
Enter the Icy Light, a snow scraper with a water-resistant flashlight in the handle. The abstraction of Washington accompaniment artist Jeff Latham, Icy Ablaze is powered by two AA batteries and comes in several colours.
Sharper Image carries a acrimonious scraper that melts abroad adamant ice and snow afterwards charging for a brace account in your car's 12-volt outlet. A congenital elastic duster wipes abroad any balance water, abrogation you with a bright view. It additionally contains a light.
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Looking for article bigger? Snow Joe offers a snow besom with ice scraper that calmly pushes heavy, wet snow off your car awning or roof after abrading the paint. The handle extends up to 49 inches.
And in article that looks beeline out of the Middle Ages, Bare Ground has an ice- and snow-melting bake that lets you bang abroad arctic spots with a propane-powered flame. Bonus? According to the advertisement on Wayfair, it's additionally abundant for edger abatement in the summer.
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