The driveway becomes a skating rink at night in this hellish temperature even after repeated shovelling. So if i mix antifreeze and salt into a solution and splash it to cover the drive way, will it prevent ice from forming?
Splashing the drive way with a mixture of car antifreeze and salt: good idea?
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Never leave antifreeze on the ground. Children and dogs love the stuff and it is extremely toxic. Just treat it with rock salt and sand.
if you want to wake up to a yard full of dead animals!
antifreeze is like candy to animals, not to mention throwing in some salt for good measure.
just use rocksalt and forget the antifreeze
antifreeze is like candy to animals, not to mention throwing in some salt for good measure.
just use rocksalt and forget the antifreeze
All antifreeze is not toxic, Ethylene glycol, the most common type of antifreeze is toxic to animals, there is No Tox antifreeze and RV plumbing antifreeze which you can drink outright with no harmful effects.
It tastes sweet to dogs, not sure about kids. My car popped a hose at work one night, we spent a long time washing down the area then pushing the water to a drain area with push brooms to make sure there were no standing puddles of antifreeze in case a dog came by.
oh whew..thanks alot guys...i did not grow up in a cold country..so never knew much about anti freeze (heeeeehhhhhhhhhhheee...now i know what to do to my STUPID neighbour's dogs that almost got sued by another neighbour 
)
probly i'll just melt salt in hot water and use that instead.
) probly i'll just melt salt in hot water and use that instead.
Originally posted by: nanyangview
oh whew..thanks alot guys...i did not grow up in a cold country..so never knew much about anti freeze (heeeeehhhhhhhhhhheee...now i know what to do to my STUPID neighbour's dogs that almost got sued by another neighbour
probly i'll just melt salt in hot water and use that instead.
Eh, to me it doesn't seem like a good idea. Throwing WATER on your driveway to prevent icing? Just use rock salt.
I'll be damned, you learn something new every day. I'm talking about the sweet part as I had a pretty good idea that antifreeze was not good for you.
Originally posted by: nanyangview
oh whew..thanks alot guys...i did not grow up in a cold country..so never knew much about anti freeze (heeeeehhhhhhhhhhheee...now i know what to do to my STUPID neighbour's dogs that almost got sued by another neighbour
probly i'll just melt salt in hot water and use that instead.
Listen up nimrod. Just go to the hardware/grocery/whatever and buy rock salt. It is specifically packaged to go on your driveway.
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Originally posted by: nanyangview
oh whew..thanks alot guys...i did not grow up in a cold country..so never knew much about anti freeze (heeeeehhhhhhhhhhheee...now i know what to do to my STUPID neighbour's dogs that almost got sued by another neighbour
probly i'll just melt salt in hot water and use that instead.
Don't mix it with water. Just go buy a bag of rock salt and put it down by itself.
iirc, antifreeze will harm concrete.
i dont know all that much about concrete, but my dad used to help pour it when he was younger, and my uncle owns a concrete finishing company, so yea.
MIKE
i dont know all that much about concrete, but my dad used to help pour it when he was younger, and my uncle owns a concrete finishing company, so yea.
MIKE
Another thing you could do is see if you can buy calcium chloride pellets instead of rock salt. IIRC, a lot of those "ice melter" products use calcium chloride because rock salt fails to be effective under -20 F while calcium chloride works up to like -40 F. It's much safer than antifreeze and I don't think it's that much more expensive than rock salt.
-Tom
-Tom
Do NOT use rock salt or any other salt as it will eat holes in the concrete. Use Ice Melt only.
I have a different problem We are building a new home on a slab. Bathrooms are sloped to a floor drain. To protect the P traps I have filled them with RV antifreeze and capped accordingly. The water is pooling in the bathroom areas. Worried about the PVC pipes being damaged by the freezing water. Engineer friend said to use Potassium Acetate but none available locally., I have some RV antifreeze but worried it may damage the newly poured concrete.
Anyone know about this?
Anyone know about this?
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