Ice dam photo's/damage
 

How bad does your house look:
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The old deck that will be removed this spring caused the floor problems in the previous photo's, I cleared the snow and ice and blew a couple of holes through the decking so the ice would build again on the surface leading to water downstairs (flashing must have failed).
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i have pics, but I'm not posting them. too embarrassing that I let it get this bad.

It started with a one week procrastination on gutter clean out. With the amount of trees (oak) surrounding my house I have to clean gutter 4x per year. the last cleanout is usually around 1st week of dec. Well, i set up the ladder, and got my supplies, but something came up and I didn't end up doing it, and they have pretty much been frozen solid ever since. There have been other winters where I left a few leaves in there, and it has never amounted to anything, so I figured it was no big deal... wrong... I did not realize what was going on in the back of my house until it was too late. I have been chipping, nylon salting, and this weekend i will break out all tools necessary to stop this mess. luckily the leaks are confined to a small area of my living room, but still it can't be good for my house...

:(

I woke up yesterday to a nice waterfall in my bedroom. Still going as I type this.

I taped plastic to the windows so it would funnel the water into a bucket, I'll deal with the damage after the thaw. I'm going to look into getting a Interlock metal roof. Has anyone got one?
I am also debating getting those rain deflector things (forgot the name) that look like louvers and eliminate the gutters altogether.

When I buy a house, I will be putting those roof wires on the Northern Side of the roof. Seems like everyone I talk to is having water problems and it's only going to get worse after the melt/rain this weekend.

Gutter Guards? I don't have but a neighbor does: they too grow plenty of LONG icicles!

It's going to be a good year for roofer$.

ecduzitgood, my roof looks just like yours, but on a white house. I just painted the living room and ceiling, if water starts pouring in I'm going to puke.

:yak5:

:eek: I feel your pain:(

Thanks - everyone I showed is amazed at how "Zen" I'm taking it - it's only a bathroom ceiling . . . things can be replaced.

Lot's of work to do this weekend to clear the snow off the roof

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Has anyone seen them on a house?

Not that this will help Gloucester, but if you get a leak in the ceiling, drive a nail or screw into the spot where you first see the water. Open the hole up a little bit and leave the nail there. You want to attract all the water to one spot so you can control/catch it, and to keep it from running all over the upperside of the ceiling.

on the JOB
 

i remember this Lady askin me to come see her ceiling
and i freaked and ran to get a trash can that didn't leak

the ceiling was about to burst
couldn't believe how much water was up there
it was holding it like a swimming pool

as they watched i jammed a long screw driver
into the belly of the beast
and water shot straight down almost filling that barrel

in my opinion you need a full metal wide piece of flashing
followed by peel and stick as your first layer of shingle
then put the original color back on over those

consider buying the heating element too

[QUOTE=ecduzitgood;834031]How bad does your house look:


Ed I have a couple of questions,

Do you have soffit vents?

Do you have good access to your attic?

How much time do you have?

Can you take some pictures of the attic where the roof meets the joists?

HOLY MOLY yesterday we knocked easy 500 lbs of icicles off the house. I got ice dams easy 6" tall. Going to have a problem soon if it rains. Can't get a ladder up there right now. I chiseled out a bit behind the ice dam with the snow rake. Barely long enough. That's a workout! Roads were a skating rink this morning.

The plow guy took down a icicle Friday that shook the ground when it landed from 8' up at the shop.

i have water dripping on my head while in bed :wall:

I'm getting the heater tape installed on the northern sides of my house and running it through all the gutters.

Another kick in the shorts
 

Yesterday most of the remaining ice dam came down on the 4 season room and only caused one leak. Today what remained came down and shattered one panel and we have a new leak:wall:

Damn. I'm sorry to hear that. Talked with my neighbor yesterday... every interior wall on the front side of his house has to be ripped out - both floors. I think it was mid-day Saturday that all hell broke loose and really quickly from what he says.

Talked with a good friend who is a roofer... they are booked straight through July. He said this is the first time in years that they have had to turn away work.

This is the damage
 

You can see most of the dam had come down and caused the leak in the first picture, note the remainder that hadn't fallen yet to the right.
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I am trying to find solace in thinking it could have been worse, it could have been me falling and breaking the glass; but it really doesn't make me feel any better. I sometimes wonder why I keep getting up after getting kicked so many times when I'm down. I must have been pretty bad in my past life :(

Almost done.....I hope
 

Dinning room under the deck and the office where the floor damage is. Water came in at the top where the molding has separated.
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Crack in the wall, this is sheetrock over plywood because this wall was an exterior wall before the room was added so I am not sure why it cracked.
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The door frame between the main part of the house and the 4 season room.
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Floor in the upstairs office
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This shows the size of the dams, and the holes I put in the deck to stop the water from coming in downstairs.
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