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Ice Dam Sunday
Had planned on spending time in the shop building plugs.... Instead I have been to three customers' homes explaining why they have leaks... I had one at my house as well. So after loading a ladder, roof rake, mallet, and a three gallon pressure spray bottle, I was off to the hardware store for roof melt tablets and windshield washing fluid. Roof melt you just lob them up like a grenade. Try to have them land above the ice... be ready to catch a few that will slide over the edge back at you. The windshield wash will accelerate melting an opening to allow water to run over the edge. Spray just above the gutter, but not so much that it is running off. You will hear the ice cracking as it begins to melt. The trick is to allow the ice melt to escape before it goes back up and into the house, or just refreezes into a larger dam.
Getting some lunch and back out at it.
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