Efficient Ground Thawing

Electric Heating Blankets for Rapid Project Progress

When it’s cold and the ground is frozen, your job suffers. Fortunately, you can thaw frozen ground and get back to work quickly with electric ground-thawing heated blankets from Powerblanket. If your livelihood involves working outside, you understand that prep often takes longer than the actual job. Powerblanket has recognized the challenges associated with cold and freezing temperatures and developed an efficient solution with outdoor heat blankets.

With Powerblanket’s patented heating technology in our ground thawing blankets, you can prep the ground with minimal effort or supervision. The high watt density in this ground thawing equipment efficiently tackles the difficulty of thawing ground in harsh climates. As a result, this line of ground heating blankets has a higher watt density and reaches hotter temperatures than our concrete curing heated blankets, making them ideal for ground thawing applications.

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SAVE TIME, MONEY, AND LABOR COSTS

High watt density thaws frozen ground quickly

REMOVE FROST PRIOR TO CONCRETE POUR

Quickly remove frost from the ground

MELT SNOW AND ICE

Clear roofs, walkways, and construction areas of snow and ice

EASY INSTALLATION

Easily installed and removed and works on both steel and poly drums

ACI COMPLIANCE

Maintain ACI compliance for cold weather concreting

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Thawing Solutions for Winter Digging Challenges

Digging in winter is tricky. For example, if there is snow, it often acts as an insulator, protecting the ground from a deep freeze. However, you still need to remove the snow. Additionally, without a heavy blanket of snow, the ground can freeze much deeper, complicating your digging efforts. Fortunately, Powerblanket’s extra-hot blankets help to thaw frozen ground, keep vehicle or equipment engines warm with engine blanket heaters, and effectively melt dangerous ice dams. Melt snow and ice from roofs, walkways, and digging sites with our heated driveway blankets. See how Hailey Cemetery in Idaho used Powerblanket’s ground thawing blanket to simplify grave site prep.

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Facing Frozen Ground Challenges in Construction and Repairs

Do you need to dig to repair a pipe? Is your construction crew prepping to lay concrete on frozen topsoil? In either case, dealing with frozen ground is certainly not ideal and waiting until the ground thaws in the late spring or early summer is not an option.

Real-World Testimonial: A Plumber’s Experience with Ground Thawing

A south-central Utah plumber said, “I wish I had known about Powerblanket’s ground thawing blankets. We had a job in Mount Pleasant that got so cold that we could not dig. We started laying out thermal blankets every night to avoid the overnight hard freeze. We had to layer the thermal blankets in order to keep the ground warm enough to work each morning. Our progress was slow and labored, and we never knew what we would find at the job site each morning. It would have been so much easier if we had had Powerblankets.”

Stay On Track and Save Money with Powerblanket

Keep jobs on track and save time and money with Powerblanket ground thawing blankets.

NUMEROUS WAYS TO USE OUR EXTRA HOT BLANKETS

Powerblanket extra hot blankets thaw frozen ground, keep vehicle or equipment engines warm, and effectively melt dangerous ice dams. Melt snow and ice from roofs, walkways, and construction areas. Powerblanket provides a maintenance-free heating solution, which reduces downtime, eliminates hassle, and saves money.

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“Your blankets are absolutely excellent. Thanks to the ground thawing blankets, we were able to quickly thaw the ground and complete our job. In fact, we estimate a savings of 10 hours per site equaling a savings of $5,000 already. Calculating this to our thousands of sites, the savings is huge! We are excited about the time and money Powerblanket has saved us and look forward to future savings.”
Kim Herman
OSP/COEI Operations Manager, Precision Utilities Group
Walsh Construction saved more than $5.43 for every $1.00 spent on Powerblanket heating blankets during a wintertime cold weather concrete job. They calculated this based on cost of labor and materials to build and move heated enclosures along two-and-one-half miles of a concrete canal wall built for the Illinois Waterway.
"It worked perfectly. . . . It thawed about 14 inches down into the ground. The grass greened up and I was able to cut it up into strips and roll it up. The sod was in good shape and I stored it in our garage. After the burial we put the dirt back in a rolled the sod back out. Normally we tear the sod up and throw it away and replant it in the springtime."
Wayne Burke
Maintenance Supervisor
"The Ground Thawing Blanket was exactly what we needed to break through the tough winter soil. It saved us hours of manual labor and nearly $100 in landscaping. I was really happy with it, and we’ll be using it again this year."
Wayne Burke
Maintenance Supervisor
“These really do a great job of thawing ground quickly. I live in North Dakota and the frost can get to 8' in some harsh winters, even some rural water lines froze a couple years back. These will usually thaw about a foot a day directly below the blanket and it's surprising how easy it digs with the moisture softening up the soil. As an electrician these have been a real life saver.”
5 Star Amazon Review
April 16, 2017

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