No-Slip Rug Carpets Ice And Snow

No-Slip Rug Carpets Ice And Snow FARM HOME Miscellaneous 32-1-31 Skip the salt, and carpet your icy sidewalk with a Snow and Ice Rug. The rug "grabs" onto the moisture in the snow and ice to create a non-slip surface. "It's great for the elderly or handicapped or anyone else for that matter," says Amy Thomas, co-owner of Cody Mercantile, Newton, Conn. "You can walk safely on ice without shoveling, sanding or spreading chemicals or salts." The surface of the rug is sisal fibers treated with latex rubber on the bottom side. The rubber grabs onto the moisture in the ice and keeps the rug from slipping. The sisal fibers let fresh snow and moisture drain through. Rugs are priced at $8.95 each and come in strips 10 ft. long by 18 in. wide. Simply roll it out across a path, sidewalk or even across a driveway. Cody Mercantile is an online and mail order store serving rural customers. Amy Thomas and her husband bought the company 1 1/2 years ago. "We've given Ice Rugs to neighbors we used to shovel snow for, and the rugs give them more security," says Thomas. "We put them in the last issue of our catalog, and they're going out the door great guns." Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Cody Mercantile, P.O. Box 409, Newtown, Conn. 06470 (ph 203 304-1137; toll free 800 443-4934; fax 203 304-1147; customerservice@codymercantile.com; www.codymercantile.com).

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