Snow removal in Oshawa when shovelling is no longer the plan.

What actually changes when you are older, and what does not

The price does not change. We are not going to pretend there is a seniors rate and then quietly build it into the number: the membership is $129, $189 or $279 a month plus HST, the same for everybody, and the seasonal snow package for a standard property is $800, $975 or $1,200 for the whole winter.

What changes is everything around the shovel.

You never have to call us, in any weather

Service starts on measured accumulation, once 3 cm has fallen. Nobody has to telephone, nobody has to remember, and nobody has to judge from a window whether it counts. Below 3 cm it is salt and the walkway rather than the blade, and that also happens without a call.

The walkway and the steps are the job, not an extra

Walkways are cleared to the surface at full width, at least 90 cm, not a shovel width path down the middle. Steps are cleared completely and salted, because steps are where people fall. On a residential property that is where most of the risk is, and it is where most of the attention goes.

The ridge at the end of the driveway is ours

The municipal plow leaves a ridge of packed snow across the end of every driveway on the street, usually after you have already cleared it. In Durham that ridge is the property owner’s to move. It is the heaviest snow of the day, it is at the worst angle, and it is the single most common reason somebody ends up in hospital after a storm. We take it off.

Twelve equal payments, and nothing to arrange in January

Everything is billed in twelve equal payments on the last day of the month, with the first taken on the last day of the month before service starts. There is no deposit, no cancellation fee and nothing to pay per storm, however many storms there are. A four storm winter and a twenty four storm winter cost exactly the same.

Every visit is photographed

The property is photographed and the time, the product and the conditions are logged on every visit. If a family member two hours away wants to know whether the driveway was done this morning, there is a record of it rather than somebody’s word.

Oshawa, and where we already are

Eleven Oshawa properties are on the route as of October 13, 2026, including MacInally Court, Fleetwood Drive, Clearbrook Drive, Wadebridge Crescent and Iribelle Avenue in the north of the city, and Harris Avenue, Goodman Drive, Ritson Road South and Athol Street East further south. If you are near one of those, you are near a truck that is already on your street.

If you are arranging this for a parent

You can be the person we quote, the person we bill and the person we send the photographs to, while the service happens at their address. Say so when you send the address and we will set it up that way. It is a common arrangement and it does not cost anything extra.

There is one thing worth knowing before you call anybody, including us. A municipal windrow assistance program exists in parts of Durham for seniors and residents with disabilities, and in some towns it is free. It clears the ridge at the end of the driveway and nothing else, and it is worth checking first. We set out who clears the windrow in each Durham town on its own page.