The HeatTrak Industrial Blog

How To Winterproof Your Facility In the Fall

As fall paints the trees with vibrant colors, it’s a stark reminder: winter is on its way. Getting ahead means prepping your facility now to tackle winter's challenges. Dive in to uncover the essen...

Maximizing Labor Savings for the Snow Season: How HeatTrak PRO Can Help

Discover how HeatTrak Pro, an industrial-grade snow and ice melting mat, enhances safety and unlocks significant labor savings by automating snow removal for businesses.

Beat the Heat: Why Midsummer Is the Perfect Time to Budget for Your Snow and Ice Removal Needs

Start planning for winter with HeatTrak PRO. Secure your snow/ice removal budget today for a safer business season.

Winter Paperwork: Snow Removal Contracts, Recordkeeping, & Insurance

Hiring a snow removal contractor is an expensive undertaking and there are several variables you must consider to ensure that your surfaces are plowed properly and safely. Prior to choosing a snow ...

Is Your Facility Ready for Winter?

As snow begins to pile up, so can costs and liabilities when businesses aren’t optimally prepared. Luckily, proper planning doesn’t mean allocating even more time and resources. HeatTrak®, an indus...

How To Choose the Best Snow Plow for Your Facility

Snow plowing is not exactly a task many people look forward to. But for commercial snow removal, it is a necessary undertaking for access, as well as to prevent water and snow ingress into buildi...

From Falling Leaves to Football: Facility Maintenance in Autumn

Proper care for your facility's turf and fields during the fall is both important in itself and is a major key to having your grounds successfully survive the winter. To ensure your grounds will be...

The Importance of Facility Rooftop Snow Removal

In February 2015, record snowfalls in Boston caused 44 roofs to collapse across a two-day period. Throughout New England, in fact, ice dams, snow drifts, and snow weight threatened roofs as more th...

Five of the Most Highly Compensated Slip and Fall Lawsuits

In today’s litigious society, facilities with deep pockets are at risk for expensive lawsuits, particularly for personal injury claims from visitors and licensees. In northern locations where long ...

Prepare Your Facility For Snow and Ice Melt Flooding & Water Damage

Three-quarters of the water supply in the western parts of the United States are derived from the annual snow and ice melt at winter's end. While this is a natural process that is vital to the eco...

Is Your Inventory Stocked With All Commercial Snow Removal Tools?

With winter upon us, facility managers should take a cue to get busy stocking up on tools and equipment that will be needed for wintertime snow and ice removal. Along with a well trained staff and...

The Importance of Inspecting Your Commercial Snow Removal Equipment

Large scale snow and ice removal efforts are nearly impossible without a full warehouse of mechanical equipment constantly at your disposal. Selecting superior pieces of machinery and then keeping...

Protecting Your Facility from Ice Dams

Every year, ice dams cause significant damage to commercial and residential properties that frequently costs thousands of dollars in repairs. One recent "nightmare scenario," for example befell a W...

7 Ways Snow Melting Mats Can Help Facility Managers

1. Protect your company from slip and fall lawsuits Heated snow melting mats could help you eliminate or significantly reduce liabilities associated with slip and fall accidents. These portable mat...