SNOW
REMOVAL. — Residential Snow Removal, Lakeville & South Metro MN — Lofton Landscaping, serving Lakeville, Savage, Prior Lake, Burnsville, Apple Valley, Rosemount, Farmington and Eagan.

Snow service works on an automatic trigger — once accumulation passes an agreed depth, typically around two inches, we come whether or not you've called. That's the entire point. A service you have to phone at 5am during a storm, when everyone else is also phoning, isn't a service.

Overnight snow gets cleared before the morning commute wherever the route allows, and Lakeville sits first in the order because it's where we start. During a long storm we may run the route more than once rather than waiting for it to finish, because eight inches cleared twice is far easier on everyone than sixteen inches cleared once.

Every push has to put the snow somewhere, and by February that somewhere is full. Piles stacked in the wrong spot end up narrowing the drive, blocking sightlines at the street, or melting across the pavement during a thaw and refreezing overnight into a sheet of ice exactly where you walk.

So we plan push direction before the first snow — downwind, away from sightlines, off the low side so meltwater runs away from the drive rather than across it. On the long rural drives out toward Rosemount this matters even more, because open ground drifts, and a pile on the windward side means you're plowing the same snow twice.

The advantage of a year-round crew is that in December they already know your property. They know where the drive edge actually is under the snow, where the turf starts, where the sprinkler heads sit and which side the pile can go without burying a shrub.

That's the thing that goes wrong with a plow contractor meeting a property for the first time in a storm at 4am: gouged turf along the drive edge, a flattened bed, a scraped apron. Every one of those is a spring repair someone pays for.