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Post by Shepherdess on Jan 11, 2013 13:52:58 GMT
here is a video for those of you who don't get any snow or only a little bit of snow. it is our neighbour snow blowing the roof of the building my studio ( and other things)is in. we wherr gettinng leaks because the ice was acting as a damb and backing up water now the January thaw is here. [a href="[flash=http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=109786]width="400" height="300" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=7456a6b0f1&photo_id=8368523349" bgcolor="#000000" allowFullScreen="true"[/flash]"][flash=http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=109786]width="400" height="300" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=7456a6b0f1&photo_id=8368523349" bgcolor="#000000" allowFullScreen="true"[/flash][/a]
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Post by koffipot on Jan 11, 2013 14:46:14 GMT
Our son had an ice dam 2 years ago when we had a very hard winter. It caused a huge problem, not only did half the roof have to come off but they had to have all the plaster stripped off and dehumidifiers in the back half of the house for months. Old thick stone walls take a lot of drying out.
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Post by MTRuth on Jan 11, 2013 15:31:22 GMT
Ann - the link wouldn't work for me. Not that I really need to see snow...
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Post by lyn on Jan 11, 2013 19:09:14 GMT
Ann - I couldn't see it either.
It's 8pm here and a balmy 8C (46F). However, the weather man has promised that our temperatures are going to just go below freezing in the next few days ... but only during the night. Phew!
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Post by jufergu on Jan 11, 2013 22:07:47 GMT
We lived in Minnesota for 5 years. My husband installed an electric coil that ran along the edge of the roof to keep that from happening. We also had to have extra strong guttering with a heating coil in it. When we first moved in, the frozen stuff would pile up in front of our door and we could not open it. The guttering solved that problem.
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Post by Shepherdess on Jan 11, 2013 23:39:43 GMT
If the other link doesn't work for you try this one. It is a video so maybe thats the problem. flic.kr/p/dKuSrk
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Post by lyn on Jan 12, 2013 0:52:21 GMT
Yes, that link works Ann!
Oo-er. That's a lot of snow on the roof and it looks very cold there.
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Post by Shepherdess on Jan 12, 2013 1:58:18 GMT
It was warm ( above freezing) that was the problem. The snow starts to melt and refreezes under the snow at the roof and makes ice, then it melts more and the water backs up behind the ice then it can get under the roofing.
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Post by MTRuth on Jan 12, 2013 3:25:02 GMT
You have more snow than we do. Our roof is too steep to do that though.
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Post by koffipot on Jan 12, 2013 9:14:32 GMT
Can see it now. Ours would be too steep too.
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Post by zed on Jan 12, 2013 9:20:21 GMT
Wow!
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Post by Shepherdess on Jan 12, 2013 13:48:07 GMT
My house roof is to steep as well, it slides off all the time. This building used to be a kennel. It's the long flat part that covered the outside runs that is the problem. It was added years after the original building was done. The buiding is in the prosses of being converted. We have a wood turner in one part and I am in another. The outside is being slowly converted into unheated storage units.
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Post by zed on Jan 14, 2013 9:29:47 GMT
We had hours of snow last night, but it was too damp and took ages before it started to stick, so there was only a covering. It's drizzling now so is mostly gone.
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