snow is starting to suck

bubba suby

bubba suby

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my wife had to work this sat. and so i was home with are son in the living room and i start to here water dripping and found it was coming from the window frame. well i have get mad and go out and find that even tho i racked the snow up about 4 feet from the eage of the roof ai got a ice dam up were the snow was :BangHead: so i had to go and buy a extra pole to put on the rack and i cleared almost all the snow off the roof now i hope the temps go up and get reed of the ice. if not i will have to spend more money on melting tubes that i saw at wal-fart. and move them every 12hr :sad5:. this water and ice thing happend 2 years ago and lucky me the temps went up and i did not have to go up on the rooof i hate higths

 
I was just hanging out the window yesterday swinging my ice axe at the 12" diameter ice flow hanging off a dormer. I just hope it warms up enough to melt the snow on the roof before it starts raining or I may have the ice dam issue. ugh.

2 years ago I had an ice dam on my garage... heat coming out of the hoodscoop on the rex melted the snow which went down, re-froze, and then the water started coming in. Nice. Suby induced flooding.

 
heh, dam ice dams. my living room ceiling still bears the scars.

solved the ice dam issues a couple years ago by putting metal roof on the house. not only did the extra layer add insulation, the tin roof sheds snow really well

except that....this has caused a few issues of its own: 1) a pile of accumulated snow launched off the north roof and landed on the boat, smooshing the winter cover 2) and now my front door is basically useless in midwinter because of the avalanche pile on porch. 3) the pickup is now buried up to the door handles because I cleverly parked it out back near the snow landing zone

all in all tho, the metal roof has licked the ice dam issue 100%

 
Metal roof :thumbsup: I will probably be putting one on the back part of my house this summer... hear nothing but good things.

 
I have a small roof over my porch that needs to be replaced and I've been considering putting a metal roof on it. I have to shovel this roof now because it's north facing and the sun never hits it. There's very little pitch on it so i'm not sure if it'll actually shed the snow and shoveling would be out of the question.

 
if roof doesn't have much pitch, if it's metal-covered it can still be cleared easily with a snow rake

usual mode of installation is to just nail strapping over existing roof, then metal panels go over that. the air space underneath insulates in summer (less heat gain = cooler temps in house) and keeps snow from freezing to roof as much come winter.

sounds like metal sheating is the answer to mikebike's roof probs

heh, Nigel gets 10% of all metal roof jobs referred thru STM...... yeh right.

 
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