Clearing snow off path outside your house

JuliusCaesar

Well, everyone on the radio keeps recommending that every householder clears the path outside their house. Is anyone actually doing it?

cute_cow

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

Well, everyone on the radio keeps recommending that every householder clears the path outside their house. Is anyone actually doing it?

If all businesses and home did this, there would be very little ice on any footpaths. The local shop accross the way from me has been sanding and gritting for the last 2 weeks, so fair play to them.

I put some salt on the path into my garden and front door, and salted the path outside my house and my neighbours on Friday evening, and even with the snow last night, its as clear as anything now. Someone else gritted the footpath on the other side of the street.

Seems people would rather complain about them than do something

vektarman

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

Well, everyone on the radio keeps recommending that every householder clears the path outside their house. Is anyone actually doing it?

Didn't someone from the Irish Insurance federation say a property owner who cleared the footpath could be sued in the event of an injury to a passer-by as the result from a fall outside same property? I'm sure there might be a link somewhere.

Tommo119

In some US States i think its the law to clear your path and they give you salt to do it. I always clear my path here (England) but it's a bit risky as your liable to get sued with all the money grabbers around here. If they fall on your path, its your fault (apparently)

Max Power1

Tommo119 wrote: »

In some US States i think its the law to clear your path and they give you salt to do it. I always clear my path here (England) but it's a bit risky as your liable to get sued with all the money grabbers around here. If they fall on your path, its your fault (apparently)

Apparently, if you do nothing, you arent responsible. But if you clear the snow, you are liable for public liability claims, as it could be shown that it was your cleaning action that caused the fall.

JuliusCaesar

According to the radio, John Gormley got legal advice on this and no the householder would NOT be responsible.

Just think everyone is lazy and would rather skid around risking injury to themselves or old people, than clear the path. Even though a good few have cleared their own garden path/driveways!

cafferkey

Thats the spirit. Wonder if cleaning the path that you are responsible for anyway will or might cause a claim so that you don't have to do anything. A path covered with ice and snow is more of a risk of a claim than a clear one. Why would anyone claim (or why would it be sucessful) against one of the few house holders
that have a clear path when there is thousands of miles of paths and roads covered with snow and ice?????

TheJeanGenie

Alot of people in the estate where I live have cleared their drive-ways and footpaths. It's a pretty sad world we live in when you have to think about money-grabbers looking for claims when you're just trying to make the place a bit safer!

tfak85

in some spots around here people have swept the paths outside their house and just left exposed ice there which is now very slippery!
i think by tomorrow it's all just going to be dirty mush anyway so we don't need to worry too much...

i myself salted outside my house.

John Mason

i was heading out to do this but was then informed if i clear the ice and snow and it re-freezes and someone slips, they would be able to sue me - so it all just got left there.

no one on my road has cleared the footpath

joolsveer

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

According to the radio, John Gormley got legal advice on this and no the householder would NOT be responsible.

Would you believe John Gormley?

cute_cow

To be honest, if someone knocked on my door and said they had fallen on the footpath outside my home, I would be asking why they fell on ground where there is no ice, no snow, just some water and wonder how they didn't fall on the ice on the rest of it?

Not a hope of going anywhere with that.

Besides the point, if someone wants to sue me for it, let them at it, not gonna get much!!

JuliusCaesar

I would imagine RTE would check their facts before announcing something like that.

vektarman

JuliusCaesar wrote: »

I would imagine RTE would check their facts before announcing something like that.

What did RTE announce?

robinph

A case like that would just get laughed out of court. Not a hope of ever happening, just people thinking up reasons to be lazy.

Degsy

I poured twenty buckets of water on my path and on the pavement outside..it froze like an ice rink and i got hours of entertainment watching people slipping and sliding around.

John Mason

well, i done mine today. there was about 10 of us out doing it all along the road

Degsy

irishbird wrote: »

well, i done mine today. there was about 10 of us out doing it all along the road

Hippies:rolleyes:

MementoMori

Well done to everyone who did their bit.

vektarman

Got my footpath outside the house cleared this morning, still lots of paths outside properties not done yet.

cute_cow

is it still icy or snowy on the footpaths in the city centre?
we've had nothing but rain over the last 2 days, and no sign of anything more than water!!

--LOS--

It was like a scene from desperate housewives when I left the house yesterday, everyone was out clearing their paths, all the suckers had bought the special scrapers, the kind you use once every 30 years in this country!

cafferkey wrote: »

Thats the spirit. Wonder if cleaning the path that you are responsible for anyway will or might cause a claim so that you don't have to do anything. A path covered with ice and snow is more of a risk of a claim than a clear one. Why would anyone claim (or why would it be sucessful) against one of the few house holders
that have a clear path when there is thousands of miles of paths and roads covered with snow and ice?????

Wow, naive, there are people out there constantly seeking opportunities for claims and the solicitors are just as corrupt in helping them. Btw I dont know how true that is about being liable for your own cleared pathway.