Clockwork Sidewalk Co. · Norbury, Moorhen Cross & Tibbett · frontage compliance, kept like a clock
The bylaw sets the deadline. We set the clocks.
Every town on our runs gives its sidewalks a number of hours after snowfall ends — and fines the frontage that misses it. Clockwork clears inside those windows for a living: measured frontages, night and dawn crews, and a photo stamped with time and address at each clear, filed before the bylaw officer is out of bed. The fine you never pay is the cheapest line item of your winter.
Cleared inside the bylaw window on 1,140 of 1,152 charges last season · photo proof, timestamped, filed by 9 a.m. · Norbury, Moorhen Cross and Tibbett, six winters
Deadlines by town
The bylaw table, and what we run to
Three towns, three clocks, one crew that runs to all of them. Our standard beats each window by hours, not minutes — because a photo stamped 07:12 beats a fine notice stamped 10:01 in every argument ever held at a counter.
Snowfall-end deadlines, 2026 — 27
Norburywe clear by 06:30
Sidewalks cleared within 10 hours of snowfall end, daytime storms; 14 overnight
Moorhen Crosswe clear by 07:00
Within 24 hours of snowfall end; ice treated “as formed” with no stated clock
Tibbettwe clear by 05:45
Within 12 hours, and ice within 4 — the strictest ice clock in the valley
The full-frontage contract$1.85 / ft / season
Per running foot of sidewalk, per season: cleared, brined and gritted, photo-stamped, every storm
Corner lots & bus-pad turns+ $95 / season
The ramp, the pad and both corner radii — the parts the bylaw reads closest
Single-storm charge$65 / charge
For the one storm you cannot do: cleared inside the window, proof filed, once
Before the first flake
The October frontage walk
A wheel, a clipboard and a photograph of every frontage on the run. We measure your sidewalk to the foot, mark the crossing slopes the plow berms will seal, note where the town’s blade throws, and fix your season rate from the measurement — the same rate all winter, however many clocks run. Corner lots get the ramp and the bus pad marked; steep grades get the ice treatment doubled at no argument, because Tibbett’s four-hour ice clock does not grade on a slope.
Snowfall-end, minus the panic
The night run
The bylaw clock starts when the snow stops, so the crews start before it does. Watches run from the forecast’s first confidence: two-person teams on the route, blowers on the wide walks, blades on the windrowed ends where the town plow has been through. Each clear ends the same way — the walk brined, photographed with a time and address stamp, and filed to the run log before the kettle is on. When the bylaw officer walks Norbury at eight, your frontage has been evidence for an hour.
Every storm, every frontage
How the clock runs
The same five movements from first flake to filed proof.
The watch arms
Forecast confidence, pavement temperature and the town roster decide which crews sleep in kit. The clock has not started; everything that happens now is margin.
Snowfall ends, clock starts
The official end-of-snowfall time is recorded from the valley station and stamped into the run log — both our clock and the bylaw’s run from the same number.
The run clears
Blowers, blades and hands down the measured frontages, worst slopes first. Single charges slot into the run’s geography; nobody waits for a dedicated truck.
The photo stamps
Each cleared walk photographed with time and address overlay, filed to the log within minutes. Twelve misses in 1,152 charges last season — all twelve cleared inside the window, photographed late.
The file answers
By 9 a.m. the run log is a document: frontage, time, photo, treatment. If a fine notice arrives anyway — two did last season, both withdrawn — the file ends it at the counter.
The ledger
Six winters of run logs
Every charge, every stamp, every withdrawn fine — the logs are the business, and the numbers below are read off them, not off a brochure.
Norbury, Moorhen Cross & Tibbett, 2025 — 2026
Frontages, cleared and stamped
Six frontages from the run log, photographed by the crews that cleared them.
The fine was on the mat before the coffee: $220 for a sidewalk the town said was uncleared eleven hours after the storm. Clockwork’s run log had my frontage photographed at 06:41 that morning — clear, treated, the stamp readable — and one email with the photo attached ended it. I had meant to cancel the service that spring to save the money. I did not cancel the service.
Asked at the measuring
Bylaw questions
The five every frontage owner asks before the first storm.
Whose clock actually governs — the town’s or yours?
The town’s, to the minute. Snowfall-end times come from the valley station and enter the run log as the official start; our standards are simply set hours earlier than each window needs. When a bylaw officer and our photo disagree about a morning, both documents show the same clock and ours shows the walk.
What if the storm ends at 4 a.m.?
Then the crews have been out since the forecast armed the watch, and the run finishes inside the window that started at 4. The midnight-ending storm is the median case — a 06:12 median clear time is built on exactly those nights. Sleeping through a clock is what the service exists to prevent.
Do you handle the fine if one arrives anyway?
The run log handles it, which is stronger than a promise: address, time stamp, photograph, treatment note. Two notices arrived last season, both withdrawn at the counter on the file. If a town ever held a fine against a stamped clear, we would pay it — and say so here the day it happens.
Is the ice clock really separate from the snow clock?
In Tibbett it is — twelve hours for snow, four for ice as it forms — and ice is where most DIY frontages fail. The run treats on the pass and re-treats the shade on refreeze hours, and the log carries the treatment with the photo. The four-hour clock does not grade on goodwill.
What does a frontage cost, honestly?
Measured in October and fixed for the season: $1.85 the running foot, corner radii and bus pads $95 the season, single-storm charges $65. A forty-foot Norbury frontage with a corner runs about $170 for the winter, less than one fine and a morning of your own shovelling per storm. The October walk prints the exact number before you sign.
The run is measured in October and closed by the first armed watch · (555) 085-7731 · clock@clockworksidewalk.example
Put your frontage on the run
Tell us the town and the address and we will walk it with the wheel in October — measurement, slopes, the town’s clock, and the season rate printed before you sign. Single-storm charges welcome; the photo stamp arrives either way. clock@clockworksidewalk.example