How to Remove Snow and Ice With a Brine Treatment
City workers use brine treatments to remove snow from the streets. The brine solution easily melts the snow from the streets and sidewalks with ease. Creating your own brine treatment at home can help you avoid the task of having to shovel the snow.
Materials Needed
- Large bucket
- Water
- Rock Salt crystals
- Spray bottles
- Fill a large bucket with 1 gallon of warm water. Pour 1 ½ pints of rock salt crystals to the bucket. Allow the water to dissolve the salt. Make sure you do not use hot water because some of the areas that will need the brine treatment can be damaged. For example, if you spray a cold glass windshield with hot water, it can crack your windshield. It should not take more than 30 minutes for the rock salt crystals to dissolve.
- Remove the lids from two spray bottles. Pour the brine solution into the spray bottles. Replace the lids on the spray bottles.
- Apply the solution over the windshield and allow it to sit on the windshield to dissolve the ice. Spray the solution over other areas around the home. You may have to create more of the treatment for the sidewalk and driveway but leave the solution in the bucket and pour it over the sidewalk and driveway. Allow the solution to dissolve the snow on the sidewalk and driveway.
- Make sure you do not drive over the area until the snow has been completely removed with the brine treatment.