The season runs November 1 to May 1, six months
Snow removal in Oshawa, and you never have to call us.
Gold from $189 a month plus HST
On Gold and Platinum your driveway, walkway and front steps are cleared after every storm, with a 7 AM target. You do not need to call.
Book by November 1 for the seasonal price. The route closes November 30.
- Unlimited visits on Gold and Platinum
- No per-storm charge
- No deposit or cancellation fee
What Silver gets in winter · Compare all three memberships
Green in summer. Clear in winter.
What Silver gets in winter
Silver is the lawn membership with winter backup. It does not plow your driveway and it carries no 7 AM target, so the driveway itself stays yours. What I take off your hands is the ridge the municipal plow leaves across the end of it, after every storm, cleared by 5 PM. And four times a season, for the mornings you cannot face it, you can ask for the whole driveway and I will come and do it. See what each membership covers.
Who clears the windrow in Durham Region · The snow removal bylaw in Oshawa
How it works
What happens when it snows
You do not call us. We are watching the same forecast you are, and the route is already planned before the first flake lands. That planning happens in the autumn, which is why when to book snow removal in Oshawa comes down to two dates rather than to the weather.
The trigger and the sequence are the same in every town we cover. If you want the detail for yours, down to which streets the municipal plow reaches first, every town has its own page.
What is included in every seasonal contract: Gold and Platinum
As many visits as the storm needs
We clear when accumulation reaches 3 cm, as many times as a storm requires, with no separate charge after each one. A brutal winter and a mild one cost you the same, and that risk sits with us.
Everything cleared, not just the driveway
Driveway curb to garage at full width, walkways to at least 90 cm, front steps down to the surface, and the entrance widened so you can turn in without hitting a bank.
Proof of every visit
Every property is photographed and logged with a timestamp before we leave. If there is ever a question about whether we came, or a slip and fall claim, that record settles it.
Published, and checkable
The five numbers, in one place
Most of what matters in a snow contract is a number somebody would rather not write down. Here are ours, together, so you can hold us to them.
- The season
November 1 to May 1. Six months, both ends published. Every other operator in Durham Region we can find that publishes a season at all publishes a shorter one, by two weeks to two months.
- The trigger
Residential clears at 3 cm, which is 1.2 inches. Commercial clears at 5 cm, which is 2 inches. Two depths, two products, and we never copy one into the other. Below the residential trigger there is no push: it is salt and the walkway, not the blade.
- The order, and the clock
Commercial and medical access first, overnight, because they have hard opening times. Then Platinum, to a 6:30 AM target. Then Gold, to a 7 AM target. Then Silver, on a separate daytime pass, to 5 PM. The best published standard we have found from another operator in Durham Region is twenty four hours from the end of a qualifying snowfall. We publish clock times instead. We name nobody, and the arithmetic is yours.
It is a target and not a guarantee, and this is the one place on this site that says so at length. The target is only realistic because the route is built street by street in tight clusters rather than scattered across the region. On a snowfall that runs for eighteen hours the first pass opens a lane out, the walkway and the steps before the target, and the full clear follows once the snow stops. That is deliberate, it costs you nothing extra, and you get an email when the first pass is done.
- The hours the machine runs
We mobilize before 10 PM and roll before midnight, and the route is finished at about 6:40 AM. On a residential street that means the machine work happens between about eleven at night and seven in the morning, because that is the only way a driveway is clear before you leave. This is the question nobody in this market answers out loud, so here it is answered: if you are somewhere a plow at two in the morning is a real problem, say so at the quote and we will tell you plainly what we can do about where you sit on the route.
- The guarantee
If you are not satisfied with a visit, tell us and we come back and put it right at no extra cost to you. There is no form, no fee for the return trip and nothing to argue about. If it is something we cannot put right, we will say so straight rather than keep sending the truck.
The 7 AM target, and what sits behind it
For snow that ends overnight, the target is Gold and Platinum driveways cleared by 7 AM, and Platinum 30 minutes earlier at 6:30. Commercial and medical access properties go first, overnight, because they have hard opening times.
That target is only realistic because the route is built street by street in tight clusters rather than scattered across the region. It is a target and not a guarantee. The full explanation is above, written once.
Big storms
What we do when it snows for eighteen hours
This is the part most people have never had explained, and it is why your driveway can look half finished at 8 AM.
Why we do not just wait for the snow to stop
Clearing each property perfectly in one visit would leave the last houses on the route waiting until afternoon. So the first pass cuts a lane out to the road and does the walkway and steps, and once the snow ends we come back for the full clear: full width to the pavement, the windrow off at the road, piles tidied and salt down again.
If it looks half done at 8 AM in heavy snow, that is deliberate and we are already on the way back. You get an email when the first pass is complete.
Every storm
The order we work in
We work the same sequence every time. It is set by where people actually slip and by how you get out of the driveway, not by what is quickest for us.
Driveway first
Curb to garage at full width, down to the pavement where it is safe. We pull the snow back off the flat stretch in front of the garage, the apron, so none of it ends up piled against your door. The blade is stopped about two feet short of the garage and that last stretch is finished by hand with a snow blower, because a steel blade and a garage door are a bad combination however careful the operator is.
Then walkways
Full width, at least 90 cm, cleared to the surface, not a shovel-width path down the middle.
Then steps
Cleared completely and salted. Steps are the slip and fall zone and they get the most attention.
Then salt and log
Ice control where it is needed. Then we photograph the property and log the time, the product and the conditions.
Ice control
Salting done properly
Salt acts on the surface rather than on the snow, and the trade is not the one people expect: the bag that is kindest to your lawn is the hardest on your concrete.
There is one night a winter where salting is the whole job and plowing is not available at all. When the precipitation arrives as freezing rain, the ice bonds to the pavement rather than lying on it, so a blade has nothing to lift. We set out what actually works in that event in our guide to freezing rain in Durham Region, including why laying brine down beforehand is the wrong move.
Light and even beats heavy
Over-salting pits concrete, kills the turf along the driveway edges, is hard on a dog's paws and costs more for a worse result. The right amount is far smaller than people expect: scattered crystals, well spaced, with bare concrete showing through.
Coverage matters more than volume. A standard driveway needs roughly a coffee cup's worth, spread evenly. Our guide to driveway salting in Oshawa has the chemistry.
A driveway on a grade changes both the dose and the sequence, because brine runs downhill before it refreezes and spread material migrates to the same low point within a day or two. The useful habit on a rise is to treat the top and work the bottom separately, since the lowest few metres take the runoff from everything above them. We have written up what a slope does to all of this in steep driveway snow removal in Durham Region, including the maximum grade each municipality here permits.
Below minus 10 °C, salt stops working
Ordinary rock salt loses most of its effect below about minus 10 °C and does almost nothing by minus 15 °C. Putting down more does not help, so on the coldest days we switch to a low temperature blend. Every application is logged.
Which membership
Before you sign with anybody, including us
Ontario issues no trade credential for snow removal, so a homeowner has to check documents instead of qualifications. There are four worth asking for, and each one proves something narrower than people assume it does. We have set out how to choose a snow removal company in Durham Region in full, including the questions that are awkward for an operator who has not thought about February yet.
Which membership plows the driveway
Gold and Platinum plow it. Silver does not, and takes the municipal windrow off the end of it instead, so the choice is really about whether you still want to be out there with a shovel.
If the property is rented out, that choice is not really a preference. A landlord buying snow clearing to discharge a maintenance duty needs the driveway plowed and a morning target, which means Gold or Platinum rather than the entry tier, and hiring anybody is a defence under the Occupiers' Liability Act rather than a transfer of the duty. We have set out who carries what at a rented house, and which Durham municipalities can charge the tenant, in landlord snow removal responsibility in Ontario.
Compare all three memberships →
Gold is $189 a month plus HST, Platinum $279 and Silver $129, all before tax. Bought alone, the seasonal snow package is $800 to $1,200.
Snow questions
Common questions
Do I need to call you when it snows?
No. We come automatically after every storm that reaches the 3 cm trigger. There is nothing to book and no number to ring: that is the entire point of a seasonal contract.
What about the windrow the city plow leaves at the end of my driveway?
On Gold and Platinum we clear it on the same visit and leave it to last, because clearing it first just means the plow buries it again. If the plow comes back after we have finished, we take it on your next scheduled pass at no charge. A trip made solely for the windrow is $45, included at Platinum.
What if you damage my lawn or driveway?
We photograph it, tell you the same day, and fix it. Plow damage to a lawn edge happens occasionally in a bad winter: the difference is whether you hear it from us or discover it yourself in April. You will hear it from us.
Can I get snow only, without the lawn service?
Yes. The seasonal snow package is $800 small, $975 standard and $1,200 large, plus HST, covering driveway, walkway and salting for the winter. Before signing with anybody, read what Ontario law says a seasonal snow contract has to contain. If you are already paying somebody for the lawn, Gold usually costs less than the two bills combined.
Where does all that snow actually end up?
On a driveway shared with the house next door the answer is narrower again, because half of the ground a single driveway sheds its snow onto belongs to somebody else. The Region of Durham requires the curb cut across a mutual pair to be continuous, so there is no gap between the two halves and no neutral strip to pile anything on. We wrote the whole problem up, including what the by-law in each town permits and what the Occupiers' Liability Act does to two households standing on one surface, in shared driveway snow removal in Durham Region.
On a townhouse the room runs out faster than anywhere else, because the City writes a street townhome driveway at 3.0 m and the strip beside it is frequently about a metre. We set out where the pile may lawfully sit on that frontage, and who owns the lane it meets, in townhouse snow removal in Oshawa.
Clearing a driveway does not make the snow leave. It moves it to the edges of your own property, where it has to stay until spring, and the room available for that is finite on a modern subdivision lot. We have written a full guide to snow plowing in Durham Region covering where a pile is legally allowed to sit, the sight line rule that caps its height at the foot of a driveway, and the arithmetic that shows how much there is to store in an ordinary winter.
What three of our customers wrote on Google
Every word below is theirs, copied from the public listing. Three reviews, three five star ratings, nothing edited.
“Absolutely wonderful guy to deal with! He cares about improving the look of your property. Does excellent work and I highly recommend him”
“Andrew knocked on my door in Oshawa and I signed up for snow removal before the first storm. He walked the driveway with me, explained exactly when they clear and what happens on a smaller snowfall, and did not dodge a single question about price. Everything was in writing before I signed. I have dealt with plow guys who disappear by January, so knowing my driveway is on a route and I am not chasing anyone at 6 AM is worth it. Will update after the first storm.”
“I was delighted to meet Andrew yesterday. Andrew provided me with a fall cleanup, and I found him to be a very responsible worker. He went above and beyond by doing many extras for me. I also entrusted him with my winter services. I gave him consent to shovel the snow and salt my property for the full season.”
Read all three in full, one page each, or check every word on Google
Arithmetic, not a quote
Work out your own band before you talk to anybody
Three taps and you get the published price for a property like yours. It is the same arithmetic we would do, on the same published numbers, and you can check every one of them against this site.
Memberships run $129 to $279 a month plus HST on a standard property. Estate, 0.35 to 1.0 acre, runs $229 to $499. Grand Estate, 1.0 to 3.0 acres, runs $329 to $739. Snow on its own for the season is $800 to $1,200 on a standard property, $1,750 on an Estate and $2,600 on a Grand Estate, plus HST.
The work, photographed
Real Northline properties, before and after, every one of them in Oshawa and every one of them this year. Drag the line to compare.
The route board, October 13, 2026
Nineteen dots. One for every property on the route.
- Oshawa11
- Whitby2
- Bowmanville2
- Pickering1
- Newcastle1
- Brooklin1
- AjaxOpennone yet
- CourticeOpennone yet
One dot is one property. No addresses and no names. The dots are counted off the client list by hand and counted again on the day a contract is signed.
On the route, counted October 13, 2026
Nineteen properties, and which towns are still open
- Oshawa11 properties
- Whitby2 properties
- Bowmanville2 properties
- Pickering1 property
- Newcastle1 property
- Brooklin1 property
- AjaxOpen. You would be the first
- CourticeOpen. You would be the first
In north Oshawa that means MacInally Court, Fleetwood Drive, Clearbrook Drive, Wadebridge Crescent, Iribelle Avenue, Surrey Drive and French Street. Further south it means Harris Avenue, Goodman Drive, Ritson Road South and Athol Street East. There are two commercial sites as well, one of them on King Street West.
Nineteen is not a lot and we are not going to dress it up. It is the first year. What it does mean is that every one of those driveways is on a route somebody can name, and that if your town says open above, you would be the first one on it rather than the last one served. Counted by hand from the client list and re-counted on the day a contract is signed.
What time do you have to leave in the morning?
One tap, and the answer is actually useful to you rather than a percentage. We do not show you what everybody else tapped, because not enough people have tapped it yet for that to be true.
Thirty seconds, in Andrew’s own voice
The question everybody asks
Transcript
“The question I get asked most is what happens if you do not make it by seven. So here is the honest answer. Seven is a target, not a guarantee, and I say that on purpose, because the weather is not mine to promise. What is mine to promise is the order. Commercial and medical access go overnight. Platinum goes first, to six thirty. Then Gold, to seven. Then Silver, on a separate daytime pass, by five. That order does not change, and I do not move somebody up it because they telephoned me at six in the morning. If a storm beats the whole route, you get a first pass that opens a lane out, the walkway and the steps, and I come back for the full clear when the snow stops, at no extra charge. You will get a photograph either way. That is the deal, and it is the same deal in a four storm winter and a twenty four storm one.”
Recorded by Andrew Owusu, the owner, who is also the person who will be on your driveway.
If you would rather try it once first
One storm, from $75, and it comes off the season if you sign
Book a single clearing for the next storm. It is a minimum of $75 plus HST for a standard driveway, settled from the address before anybody turns up, and it covers the driveway, the walkway, the steps and the ridge the city plow leaves at the end.
If you sign up for the season within seven days of that visit, the full amount you paid for it comes off the seasonal price. One storm per property, and it is the only way to find out what a contractor is actually like without committing a winter to them.
It is not a route place. A single storm is fitted around the route and it is cleared after the members are, which is the honest trade and the reason the season costs what it costs.
What happens on December 1, and what happens if you do nothing
The route closes on November 30. On December 1 it is set: the properties on it are the properties we have committed the winter to, and the next opening is a cancellation or the following season. We are not going to pretend that a route with nineteen properties on it is about to overflow. We are saying what the date means, which is that after it the answer stops being yes by default.
If you do nothing, here is the arrangement you are choosing, stated as fact rather than as a warning. A Durham winter reaches the 3 cm residential trigger on an average of 11.4 days a season, with a median of 12, on eighteen complete winters of Environment Canada data for Oshawa. The mildest of those eighteen had four. The worst had twenty four.
On every one of those days the city clears the street and not your driveway, and the ridge of packed snow its plow leaves across the end of yours is legally yours to move, in every town in Durham Region. That is not a sales line. It is the arrangement, and it is the same one whether or not anybody ever sends you a quote.
Andrew answers, October 2026
Why is your season longer than everybody else's?
Because November and April are when the awkward storms happen, and a season that ends on March 31 ends three weeks before the last one. November 1 to May 1 is six months and both ends of it are published, which is the part that matters: a season you can read is a season you can hold me to.
One of these goes on each page and it is replaced monthly. If the question you have is not here, ask it: 905-244-5779.
Get a fixed monthly price for your property
Send me the address and I will send you a monthly number the same day, well before the first flake. If your driveway is one you would rather keep doing yourself, say so and I will price Silver for you instead.
Green in summer. Clear in winter.