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02-06-2011, 03:51 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Anybody have a good source for heat tape? The best I found online was 4.64 a foot. Looking to this coming summer doing the North side of the house, garage and the gutters
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02-06-2011, 04:13 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
Posts: 1,701
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Was able to get some salt bombs up on the roof, about six or so ... so far so good ... also the warm weather was real helpful as well ... bought a lot of extra if need be.
Swung back into the hardware store this morning, and must say, I was amazed at the amount of people there discussing their problems with ice dams ... dozens and dozens of people in this one hardware.
Rock salt flying off the shelves
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"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
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02-06-2011, 04:55 PM
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time to go
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 2,318
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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  |
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02-06-2011, 05:20 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,544
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the cobbler's kids...
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! |
“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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02-06-2011, 05:31 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
Posts: 6,414
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ecduzitgood
I ended up using the water softening salt (blue bags)
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That is what Lowes on Rt106 W Bridgewater was pushing as DeIcer! Obviously they were out of the standard calcium chloride... |
 Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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02-06-2011, 05:36 PM
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time to go
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 2,318
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Quote:
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...
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Bingo thats the place, it worked and was only a little over $5 for a 40lb. bag. |
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02-06-2011, 08:22 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Dedham MA
Posts: 98
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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.
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