Slippery Drive Solution Please

[gness]

The drive to my garage slopes up quite steeply so, when it's icy I can't get my car out even when the road is fine. It's also slippery when it's wet. The drive is concrete.
Is there anything I can put on the drive that will prevent me looking like Bambi when I'm walking on it and perhaps give the car some grip?
I've looked at Protecta-Kote but know nothing about it.

[Connemmara]

you should be able to be able to buy a tube of salt in Poundland - invest in the 3 or 4

[gness]

Thanks Con....I'd like to find something to coat it with permanently for ice and rain. x

[vakayu]

gness you will just have to hope the builder or somebody is about,he may help!!

[TWR]

Rock Salt, far cheaper than expensive Idiea Gness. £5 a bag.

[Psybbo]

B&Q sell bags of salt but no idea of anything permanent

[rockyracoon]

We have the same problem gness, only ours is block paved. At the mo, we just use salt but I'd be interested if there is another solution.

[Zacs-Master]

Ice is frozen water (genius, I hear you cry) so unless you can find something to repel water then, no there isn't anything......other than good old fashioned salt.

[gness]

Thanks all. I have bags of rock salt but I'm still wary with the drive being so steep. The garage door is new and was expensive and is also narrow so no allowance for a small slide.
It's north facing....never gets any sun which is what adds to the slipperiness all year and I'd like a permanent solution if there is one.

[society]

Perhaps repaving with asphalt with pebbles mixed in might help.

[shoota]

http://www.vermontracing.com/projects/project_steve/702/ice_racing_tires/ice_tires_one/building_ice_racing_tires.htm

[DTCwordfan]

and short of putting some electrical wire tracing under the surface if you were to have it up.

[Canary42]

You could always install underground heating cables - a bit expensive but effective.

[slaney]

Some friends of mine had resin-bonded gravel put down and it seems to work well. Don't know about cost though.

[gness]

I was sort of hoping to paint something on or maybe there is a product such as Society posted.
Although shoota's idea involves a Drill/screw gun with magnetic nut driver and I like the sound of that. :-)

[gness]

Ah Slaney...that sounds hopeful. Thank you.

[TWR]

Gness, whatever you put down will not distract rain / frost, ( Ice) from what you say about your garage doors, you have 3 options, leave the car on the road, Rock salt, snow chains ( Which will mark your drive) there is only one safe & trusted way, Rock Salt.

[Old_Geezer]

If there is a thick covering of ice I'm unsure anything you coat the ground with will help since the ice will simply cover over it. For slight wet you would need a rough surface to grip on and hopefuily drain the damp preventing the surface geting smooth. Maybe a rough concrete skim of some sort, or one with rough stones in it.

How about a hand rail down the side, as an aid to walking ? As for the car, I assume it can cope with wet, the rest is down to putting something under the wheels so they grip. Old blanket maybe.

[sunny-dave]

I think gness is not looking for a solution to today's ice/snow, but for a different type of paving/coating/whatever which will reduce the slipperiness of the drive in all circumstances (ironically with the possible exception of deepish snow).

Is The Builder around tonight ?

[gness]

That's what I'd like Dave. I can sweep the snow away but it takes very little wet or ice to make it lethal. I know whatever I can do to it will need rock salt in icy conditions but I'd hoped for a tried and tested paint/coating if it exists.

[slaney]

As I suspected the resin-bonded gravel surfacing is quite pricey at £55-65 /m2. It can be laid on concrete.
I have a steep and, in this weather, slippery drive as well so would be interested to know of any alternatives.