DANDY'S PRICE PROMISE...

Here at Dandy's we believe that we offer the lowest prices on-line for all of our products; in fact, we do a daily scout of the web to ensure that we're not being beaten on price or quality! We also check out how much cheaper we are compared to local shops; did you know for example that most retailers like Spar, B&Q, as well as supermarkets like Asda and Tesco are selling 10kg of rock salt for around £7.99 whilst at www.dandysrocksalt.co.uk you can buy a 25kg bag for just £18.75 and have it delivered to your door - not only does the salt work out cheaper but you can order on-line in less than two minutes and get delivery the very next day - so you're saving on fuel and time costs too!

Because we're so confident that we can't be beaten like for like on quality and price we are once again running our price promise... if you find the same quality and quantity of goods for sale on-line somewhere else that's cheaper than Dandy's; we'll do our absolute utmost to beat that price - all you need to do is fill out a short form telling us what and where you've seen cheaper - you can do so here www.dandysrocksalt.co.uk/price-promise in a couple of seconds and we'll get back to you with our verdict and your special price as soon as we can!

NEW PRODUCTS LAUNCHED TODAY!

Today marks the first in a run of new products! We've created some exclusive combo packs to reflect the best products and deals available over at www.DandysRockSalt.co.uk.

The combo packs are on at amazingly low prices with up to 60% off the RRP!

You can now buy specially tailored kits for home-owners, for car parks and driveways as well as a range of all-in-one solutions. Head on over to the website now and get shopping - temperatures are dropping as fast as our prices!

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TWENTY FOUR HOUR PRODUCTION STARTS...

With rock salt mania peaking this week, Dandy's HQ have ramped up production to 24/7 with teams working through the night to get salt bagged up and palletised ready for despatch.

As temps continue to drop and with national press reporting of "ice-age" like seasons hitting us Brits the demand for salt has never been higher; couple that with the fact that we're currently giving away free, super cool Dandy's ice scrapers with every order AND the fact that we're offering snow shovels at half price with salt orders, we've had no choice but to switch to all hours production early this year... and we're loving it!

The robots are doing their bit and team Dandy are all enthusiastic about the coming winter; we all love to be busy and no Dandy's team member is happier than when all the 'phones are ringing and lovely fully loaded trucks are rolling in and out of HQ.

After a long, hot summer (sort of) saw record sales of exclusive to Dandy's Vegegrow Topsoil the landscaping and gardening supplies orders have tapered off and been replaced with the savvy shoppers loading up on rock salt, grit bins, snow shovels and spreaders! Show us how ahead of the game you are and get yours ordered now over at www.DandysRockSalt.co.uk!

EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ROCK SALT...

...and some stuff you probably didn't!
Rock Salt is the common term used for Halite; the rock form of sodium chloride.

Typically the mineral form is white but it may also be light blue, dark blue, purple, pink, orange, grey or the traditional red colour associated with normal rock salt used for gritting. The colour, shade and intensity depends on the amount and type of impurities within the salt; with regards to normal rock salt as sold by Dandy's, the salt has a small amount of reddish brown clay in it.

De-icing salt is a mined substance, typically sourced in the North West of England from Morlock inhabited salt mines way underground. It is mostly used as a de-icing product to clear roads and paths of ice and snow following cold and frosty periods of weather.

Halite is different from other types of salt in the way that it is a rock rather than a mineral as one might expect; although this makes it a different compound entirely it does still have many similarities to mineral salts. Salt is something which is used day to day by every living soul on the planet; put simply, we need it to survive. As well as being one of the oldest food seasoning's known to mankind, salt has and is also used as a preservative - mostly for foodstuffs but the Egyptians used it to preserve bodies as part of the mummification process!

The Rock Salt which we mine in the UK exists in large bodies of water which evaporate and leave huge salt deposits which eventually become buried beneath the earth via natural processes.

For use as a de-icer, rock salt works by lowering the physical melting point of ice - termed "freezing point depression" - and melting the snow and ice and preventing it from re-freezing. When the rock salt is introduced to the solid form of water it adds more particles to the water, lowering the freezing point until it gets so low as the rock salt itself ceases to dissolve.

Salt will melt ice down to around minus twenty in a lab controlled environment - for those of us living in the real world it will melt ice and snow effectively up to freezing temperatures of around minus nine degrees; so if it gets any colder than that the salt itself is likely to freeze so keep it safe and dry it a grit bin to help reduce the chances of this happening to you!

LATEST ROCK SALT OFFERS...

There are some fabuloso offers over at the shop le Dandy's Rock Salt...

• Buy any de-icing salt product and get snow shovels for half price; that's less than eight quid a pop!
• If you're quick you can a free ice scraper with any order placed! Don't forget to add it to your cart if you want it otherwise we'll assume you don't like getting free stuff and you won't get one!
• Every shopper gets a forty quid voucher for nakedwines.com (we've sampled the vino ourselves; it's very good).
• If you spend over one hundred pounds you can get your stuff delivered the very next (working) day (providing you order before the cut off - usually 3pm, sometimes earlier - check the website for the latest times or give us a bell on 0845 456 3089).
• Use my secret blog reader voucher BLOG2510 for a lovely 10% discount.
• Check out the combo gritting packs for an all-in-one de-icing solution at discounted prices.

FAQs

Hit the title above to rock on over to Dandy's Rock Salt official website where you can check out all the salty questions we get from browsers and shoppers and the responses we give them!

SAVVY SHOPPERS BUY EARLY WITH 3000 TONNES OF ROCK SALT ON THE WAY TO DANDY'S HQ...

Dandy's super savvy shoppers have got ahead of the game to ensure that they can keep trading all winter long by stocking up on rock salt early with purchases from Dandy's totalling over three thousand tonnes.

Two of Dandy's more weather conscious clients have opted to pre-buy the shipment which is currently docked, awaiting pick up and delivery to Dandy's HQ in Deeside where it will be packed and shipped out once the customers require it. Buying de-icing salt in this way means that the two clients can be sure of servicing all of their own customers with ease all winter and need not worry about storing or running out of salt themselves.

The last two years running have seen Dandy's remain the only on-line retailer not forced to shut its doors after running out of salt, allowing us to keep all of our customers firmly on their feet all winter long.

You can buy rock salt, de-icing salt, exclusive to Dandy's UltraGrip Rock Salt and accessories like snow shovels, grit bins and gritting combo packs over at www.DandysRockSalt.co.uk; don't slip up; get your order in now before it's too late!

BRITAIN FACES "MINI ICE AGE"...

The Daily Express has reported today that Britain looks set to face a "mini ice age" this winter and perhaps in years to come.

Despite us Brits having an unseasonably warm October, temperatures are set to plummet with freezing temps as low as a shivery minus twenty degrees which will top last years coldest temperatures seen in fifty years.

Local councils have reported that they have more rock salt in stock than previous years but following the shambles of the past two years running despite similar claims, we at Dandy's would urge all savvy shoppers to get ahead of the rest and get salt ordered now.

We had many customers last year who had waited for the snow and ice before ordering their salt; at this point they had already had no choice but to shut their businesses to the public due to the properties being inaccessible for customers and suppliers alike. Similarly there were people who couldn't get the kids to school or themselves to work, not to mention all the folks who were left housebound because they couldn't get their cars off the drive!

We even had a few sore bums at Dandy's after a couple of staff went skidding across the car park before we managed to get the salt down; so despite having a veritable salt mountain on site even we occasionally fell prey to the unprepared-ness so take heed from us and get your order in at www.DandysRockSalt.co.uk now (shhh; use the voucher code BLOG2510 for 10% off!)!

DANDY'S UNVEIL LATEST DELIVERY VEHICLES...

Following the unprecedented early demand for rock salt and de-icing products, Dandy's have once again extended their fleet in order to keep up with demand.

The company's standard fleet consists of two multi drop, crane offload vehicles which service Chester and North Wales with deliveries of coal, logs and salt throughout the winter and landscaping and gardening supplies during the summer, two small vans for access to the harder to reach parts of North Wales and an eight wheeler, high sided bulk tipper for delivering loose loads up to 20 tonnes or 40 cubic metres!

Since Dandy's began selling online way back in 2004 the fleet has been expanded and improved and the use of pallet networks employed to allow the company to reach customers all over the country. Last year Dandy's partnered up with local hauliers, Farralls Transport, in order to continue to keep up with the high demand for salt.

Farralls, part of the Palletforce network, now take care of all of Dandy's nationwide bulk bag and palletised deliveries and following a successful trading period have liveried up one of their new curtain side delivery vehicles in the Dandy's colour scheme and logo.

The truck will be running goods from Dandy's HQ in Deeside down to the Palletforce central sorting hub in the Midlands ready for despatch to customers across the UK.

This is the latest addition to the Dandy's delivery fleet and it follows hot on the heels of Dandy's two electric cars which were added to the company fleet as part of Dandy's commitment to becoming carbon neutral by 2015.