On 1/30/2014 12:52 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Leon wrote:
On 1/30/2014 10:18 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:59:18 -0500, woodchucker
wrote:

For those of you not in snow country..
Some of you got dumped on..

It pays to get the snow off the 1st 2 feet of the roof. I have a
snow rake and get about 4 feet off. But assuming most of you
southerners don't have it.

Take a broom and try to get the 2 feet at the bottom of your roofs
cleared. It may save you lots of money in rotted wood, or your shop
if you have a basement shop.

Years ago the ice damn caused a lot of water to run inside the
house and it travelled the joists and soaked a lot of wood and
also rusted a lot of stuff.

Just an FYI..


I would not think that a properly vented roof would ice dam.

They sure do. All of the practices of creating venting, minimizing
heat loss, etc. are valid, but they do not stop ice damns under the
right conditions. That's why we use water and ice barriers in the
north country. Mine extends probably 3 times higher up my roof than
even the most cautious recommendations, and across my valleys as
well. Metal roofs do go a lot further to combat this problem but you have
to like that look. And... you have to think about all of that snow
sliding off your roof - unintended consequences and all that stuff.


That might all depend on the type metal roof that you have. My last
house had a metal, aluminum, cedar shake roof. So snow may not slide
off easily at all.

Metal roofs up here are defined as sheet metal roofs. No cedar shakes, or
anything else. I guess all things are relative but I thought that's what
everybody defined a metal roof to be.

You're talking standing seam metal roof, or corrugated Mike?


--
Jeff