Flakes or Litter?

xcarriex

Ok,

For those people who know what to do can i ask help,

Seen as though salt is in short supply im wondering is cat litter or porridge oatflakes a good sub, i have heard they are, im not enjoying parking my car on the side of the road while the eejits skid up and down for the crack, and the kids use it as a hide away from numerous snowball attacks, My garden is sloped thus meaning its impossible to get out of,

So my question is this, do i purchase Oatflakes or Catlitter?

Thanks for your time

mikom

xcarriex wrote: »

So my question is this, do i purchase Oatflakes or Catlitter?[/font]

Depends..... Do you want to eat it or shit in it?

Rented Mule

Use the cats for traction !!

Miserable plotting little creatures.

CianRyan

Do you want porridge or grip?

The Al Lad

Go and buy 4 or 5 (depends on the size of your drive, really) thingys of saxa table salt and pour them on your driveway, this should help melt the ice

jumpguy

As said table salt helps, but make sure it's not too fine. Otherwise you'll need shit loads of it. The best job would be stones, or grit (very fine tiny stones).

Or buy lots of salt, but make sure it's thick ground salt!

Not too sure about porridge oats etc. I reckon they'd be fairly useless when they get wet, but it's worth a shot.

WindSock

Porridge won't be much better than ice.

xcarriex

Yeah i thought as much with the oats, well i was going to buy one really big bag, anywere i can get big bags of salt

davyjose

Make a rudimentary sledge, and ride those cats to work....

Like the miniature feline Huskies that they are

biko

Litter > oats

xcarriex

haha would anyone notice me flying down the M50 with cats pulling the sledge

Coriolanus

xcarriex wrote: »

haha would anyone notice me flying down the M50 with cats pulling the sledge

You'd probably be the only person on the M50 other than abandoned cars anyway.

congo_90

buy a bag of gravel from the hardware. Makes a bit of dirt but will give good traction! spent 40mins today clearing most snow and ice from outside the house just enough to let me walk to the car ok. Threw some gravel (aggregate) down so when it does refreeze it wont be too bad. have bout half a bag left now

Capt'n Midnight

Rented Mule wrote: »

Use the cats for traction !!

Miserable plotting little creatures.

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slipss

xcarriex wrote: »

Ok,

For those people who know what to do can i ask help,

Seen as though salt is in short supply im wondering is cat litter or porridge oatflakes a good sub, i have heard they are, im not enjoying parking my car on the side of the road while the eejits skid up and down for the crack, and the kids use it as a hide away from numerous snowball attacks, My garden is sloped thus meaning its impossible to get out of,

So my question is this, do i purchase Oatflakes or Catlitter?

Thanks for your time

Realise this is AH but there should be at least one serious answer. Catlitter works, use that.

extra-ordinary_

I like flakes and I try not to throw the wrapper on the ground.

ExoduS 18.11

grab yourself a sack of granulated water softener salt. problem solved.

CrazyRabbit

Serious answer #2.

Cat litter. It's basically grit.

Though you are better off buying a few kg's of salt (sea salt is better) and spreading it generously over the driveway. Grit only gives a little extra grip and the effect is lost if it snows again.