Nine kinds of winter work, priced differently and often by different operators. What follows is what each one actually involves in this county, and what decides the number.
Every job listed here is performed by an independent snow removal operator. This site does not plow, shovel or salt.
The core seasonal product. Two-inch trigger, priced by driveway type rather than square footage, with single and double width commonly costing the same and the real step up at a circle or an estate approach.
The ridge the municipal plow leaves across the end of your driveway. Farmington Hills and Troy both state in writing that it is the homeowner’s. Whether your contract covers it is the term that decides the season.
Four cities in this county, four different deadlines, and Birmingham will bill you a minimum of $100 if its crew has to do it. Corner lots carry a surcharge everywhere for a reason.
An option on every seasonal contract in this market, adding roughly $400 at the residential tiers. Worth understanding before buying, because salt stops working at a temperature this county reaches most winters.
Not a preference. Brick pavers, a short approach with nowhere to push, and a driveway that shares a lot line with a neighbor all decide the equipment before anyone quotes a price.
Run on this county’s own numbers, a season is not a discount. What it buys is route priority and a fixed cost in a 90-inch winter. The arithmetic is on the page.
No township, city or road commission plows a private road in this county, and they say so in writing. If your road is private, the arrangement is made by the road, not the house.
Oakland County’s ground snow load is 25 psf, higher than most of Wayne County. Collapse is rare. Ice dams are not, and in a county of full basements the water goes a long way down.
Lots, associations, churches, schools and medical frontage. Michigan premises liability changed in 2023, and service documentation is now part of what is being bought.
Describe the property and what goes wrong in a normal storm. That is usually enough to tell which two or three of these belong in one contract.
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