Ice Dam Help

[ecduzitgood]

I ended up using the water softening salt (blue bags) in the nylons for the front of the house and it worked well. Because of the gutter guards they slid off with what was left of the ice dams and it looked like some sort of perverted toilet papering type prank out front with nylons hanging in my bushes and laying on the snow banks

[nightfighter]

I too got some water in the kitchen and my den last night... Seems I had been paying too much attention getting my clients' houses freed up, and didn't quite clear enough of the ice on my own house. So I too was up on a ladder in the dark and the rain last night.... Also had it follow my vent pipe right down to my basement.... Spent hours today clearing up to 26" drifts that were still up there. Four straight days of this. I'm whipped.... Glad if my suggestions were able to help some of you out. If so.... as Bassmaster would say, you owe me a plug!

[PRBuzz]

Originally Posted by ecduzitgood

I ended up using the water softening salt (blue bags)

That is what Lowes on Rt106 W Bridgewater was pushing as DeIcer! Obviously they were out of the standard calcium chloride...

[ecduzitgood]

Originally Posted by PRBuzz

That is what Lowes on Rt106 W Bridgewater was pushing as DeIcer! Obviously they were out of the standard calcium chloride...

Bingo thats the place, it worked and was only a little over $5 for a 40lb. bag.

[MarkB]

I didn't have ice dams or leaks, but I did have frozen solid gutters. I got up there with a ladder and a shovel and cleared off the snow about six feet up from the gutter. With the warm weather today - 43 degrees - the ice in the gutter melted no problem. The only problem I have is when the gutter freezes up and the melt water from the snow runs over the gutter and down the outside of the house. No problem today, but I still have ice in the back gutters - less sun back there.