Road Cleaning in Sheffield

Street Cleaning Services in Sheffield 

Sheffield is a busy City in South Yorkshire that requires regular cleaning of its roads and streets. This is a task that is carried out by the local council along with its appointed sub contractors where necessary.

The roads are cleaned using different methods and also items of equipment, depending on the scope of works and where the actual street cleaning is needed.

Small areas may be cleaned by manual workers using just brooms and handtools, larger areas and highways will usually be cleaned by specialist road sweeper trucks and compact precinct type sweepers.

This is especially the case in Autumn months when the many trees start to drop their leafs, in what is commonly known as the leafing season. In Autumn the thousands of roads in Sheffield can become a hazard and also unsightly if the leaves are not swept and sucked up, and this is just one job that a road sweeper vehicle can handle.

A road sweeping truck can carry out road cleaning by spraying large volumes of water onto the highways surface, this is then scrubbed by the sweeper trucks several brushes in readiness for sucking up afterwards.

A powerful vacuum suction box fitted to the road sweeper truck sucks up the dirty water and any solid waste items, depositing it in the trucks hopper unit for later disposal of.

Often certain roads can be soiled heavily after ground works has taken place such as when utility companies dig the road up to carry out essential repairs and maintenance. This includes the water mains, gas supply pipes, and electrical service cables.

If the roads are very dirty and soiled one option is to jet wash the particular area, another would be to use a Beam Sweeper. This is a specialist vehicle that uses high pressure jets of water to blast the roads surface removing stubborn dirt and grime.

The beam sweeper is a specialist vehicle that is usually obtained as and when from companies that provide the rental of gully tankers and road sweepers.

Cleaning Spillages Up 

Spillages can occur on the streets in Sheffield because of several reasons, it could be because of a delivery lorry that has shed some of its load, because a car, van or lorry has suffered a leak, or because of a road traffic accident.

When this happens the local authorities and their contracts come into play cleaning up the spillage with all the resources that they have available including sand, oil spillage kits, street cleaners, and road sweeping vehicles.




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