My building wants to shovel our roof but we’re going to wait until Sunday to see how bad it is. As far as I know, there haven’t been leaks so I would guess it’s probably draining ok.
I am shoveling the snow away from the drain side of my extension roof. got pipe heating cables to try to melt some ice blocking the drains. I put the cables down, put plastic on top and drape towels on top of the plastic to insure contact with the ice.
I am repeating the process with the gutters on top of the building (building faces south, gutters are in back on the north side) Yesterday got most of the ice broken up on the roof, it was trapping water underneath.
The garage roof got shoveled 2 weeks ago just before the last big storm. Then it got shoveled after the big storm. I’m trying to prevent an ice rink from forming on the garage. Will play with more heating cables on top of garage tomorrow. How incredibly fun;(
I guess we are really lucky with our exposure (south/north). Tge snow just melts away during the day. I looked at some roofs across our backyard two days ago — they had only a few inches of snow on their backsides near their gutters where the roof slopes down, and the rest of the snow was gone completely.
Hope I don’t jinx us with this thread. We’ve had plenty of other issues. So far the roof is the only thing that hasn’t gone wrong. Fingers crossed.
I shoveled the roof on our house barge becuase it’s been prone to leaks and I’m not so sure it will hold alot of weight. I also shoveled an area on the low roof at the brownstone but only because our cat lives out there.
I went up and shoveled around one of the down spouts, but i did not have the energy to carry each shovel full over to the one edge of the roof and dump it. So I only uncovered one or two drains and am taking my chances.
I shoveled my extension roof (easy to access and less dangerous than other spots) and tried to sweep some snow away from above the massive ice dam that’s developed on the other side of the house. gutters and leaders on the south side look ok for now. The part I shoveled was really heavy!
Wow, just read the “Frozen Gutters” thread that was posted 2 days ago when we were smugly bypassing it because “we don’t have that problem!” lol. Again — if you don’t already have a heat cable installed in your downspout, it might be a great preventive measure to shoveling excess ice and snow off your roof.
Well, this will be the first year we are shoveling ours! Discovered a nasty leak over the range in our kitchen last night. Thought it might be because of a flaw in the installation of a vent hood that is now 2 years old. Called Nick at Leak Masters for advice. He told us that, more likely than not, the downspout is frozen, causing water to back up into the gutters. As the snow melts, there is major overflow because it can’t get down the frozen leader and is now making it into whatever teeny flaw may have been in the vent duct all along but not apparent until now. Bottom line- it’s raining in our kitchen! So, while we are not shoveling the extension roof because of fear of collapse, we are shoveling it (and pouring boiling hot water down the leader) in order to abate the effect of too much damn ice and snow on the roof until Nick gets here. Sigh.
Never, in the 36 years I’ve owned my house, have I shoveled my roof. The house has stood for 112 years without the roof collapsing. Since snowfall has been increasing with climate change I (or a subsequent owner) might eventually have to re-think this, but this winter has not (yet) been the worst during my term of ownership, much less since 1899.
My building wants to shovel our roof but we’re going to wait until Sunday to see how bad it is. As far as I know, there haven’t been leaks so I would guess it’s probably draining ok.
I am shoveling the snow away from the drain side of my extension roof. got pipe heating cables to try to melt some ice blocking the drains. I put the cables down, put plastic on top and drape towels on top of the plastic to insure contact with the ice.
I am repeating the process with the gutters on top of the building (building faces south, gutters are in back on the north side) Yesterday got most of the ice broken up on the roof, it was trapping water underneath.
The garage roof got shoveled 2 weeks ago just before the last big storm. Then it got shoveled after the big storm. I’m trying to prevent an ice rink from forming on the garage. Will play with more heating cables on top of garage tomorrow. How incredibly fun;(
I guess we are really lucky with our exposure (south/north). Tge snow just melts away during the day. I looked at some roofs across our backyard two days ago — they had only a few inches of snow on their backsides near their gutters where the roof slopes down, and the rest of the snow was gone completely.
Hope I don’t jinx us with this thread. We’ve had plenty of other issues. So far the roof is the only thing that hasn’t gone wrong. Fingers crossed.
I shoveled the roof on our house barge becuase it’s been prone to leaks and I’m not so sure it will hold alot of weight. I also shoveled an area on the low roof at the brownstone but only because our cat lives out there.
I went up and shoveled around one of the down spouts, but i did not have the energy to carry each shovel full over to the one edge of the roof and dump it. So I only uncovered one or two drains and am taking my chances.
I shoveled my extension roof (easy to access and less dangerous than other spots) and tried to sweep some snow away from above the massive ice dam that’s developed on the other side of the house. gutters and leaders on the south side look ok for now. The part I shoveled was really heavy!
Wow, just read the “Frozen Gutters” thread that was posted 2 days ago when we were smugly bypassing it because “we don’t have that problem!” lol. Again — if you don’t already have a heat cable installed in your downspout, it might be a great preventive measure to shoveling excess ice and snow off your roof.
Well, this will be the first year we are shoveling ours! Discovered a nasty leak over the range in our kitchen last night. Thought it might be because of a flaw in the installation of a vent hood that is now 2 years old. Called Nick at Leak Masters for advice. He told us that, more likely than not, the downspout is frozen, causing water to back up into the gutters. As the snow melts, there is major overflow because it can’t get down the frozen leader and is now making it into whatever teeny flaw may have been in the vent duct all along but not apparent until now. Bottom line- it’s raining in our kitchen! So, while we are not shoveling the extension roof because of fear of collapse, we are shoveling it (and pouring boiling hot water down the leader) in order to abate the effect of too much damn ice and snow on the roof until Nick gets here. Sigh.
Never, in the 36 years I’ve owned my house, have I shoveled my roof. The house has stood for 112 years without the roof collapsing. Since snowfall has been increasing with climate change I (or a subsequent owner) might eventually have to re-think this, but this winter has not (yet) been the worst during my term of ownership, much less since 1899.