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01-27-2011, 05:45 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Billerica, Ma.
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Ice Dams?
So I have water leaking pretty bad into my basement, I thought it was a pipe so I smash the ceiling open nope not a pipe. I go up to the kitchen and start to take stuff out of the cabinets dry as a bone then I look out the window yup water icicles coming from out of the eves, siding, you name it ice is coming out of it.
Now the question after I shovel the roof and get down to the ice is it ok to put salt or ice melt on the ice on the roof because I don't really want to chip it?
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01-27-2011, 05:59 PM
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Seldom Seen
Join Date: May 2001
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I've used the Ice Viper, which is a 3 or 4 foot tube filled with ice melt. Got it at HD years ago. Don't recall seeing it lately. But must be a similar product around. Could fill a nylon with ice melt... Just throwing ice melt on the roof isn't the best idea, but if the alternatives are having it leak, or chiseling it.... go with ice melt. Cables work well, but are tough to hold in place when ice is already there. Are your gutters clear?
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“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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01-27-2011, 06:05 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
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I don't have gutters, I'm going to have to install that heat wire at some point
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01-27-2011, 06:10 PM
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A few years ago I had Ice dams on the front of my house, so I set up a ladder in the middle of my house. Grabbed my 100' hose out of the garage and attached to the hot side of the washing machine hook up. With a bunch of rags that I wrapped around the spray nozzle I hosed down all the ice. I don't believe that this method will hurt the roof.
I wasn't sure about throwing salt on the roof....
Hope this helps Bob.
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01-27-2011, 06:14 PM
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Seldom Seen
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Bob, can you reach it with a roof rake? Pull down the snow 3 feet above the overhang of the eave.
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“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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01-27-2011, 06:17 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
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I'm going to have to hand shovel it it's 2 1/4 stories in the back
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01-27-2011, 06:18 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
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Quote:
Originally Posted by O.D. Mike
A few years ago I had Ice dams on the front of my house, so I set up a ladder in the middle of my house. Grabbed my 100' hose out of the garage and attached to the hot side of the washing machine hook up. With a bunch of rags that I wrapped around the spray nozzle I hosed down all the ice. I don't believe that this method will hurt the roof.
I wasn't sure about throwing salt on the roof....
Hope this helps Bob.
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This is a good idea, but knowing me I will slip on the wet ice and break my back |
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01-27-2011, 06:23 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tattoobob
I'm going to have to hand shovel it it's 2 1/4 stories in the back
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How steep is the pitch? Don't be stupid.... Need a ladder tall enough to reach the roof. Can still use the roof rake then. |
“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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01-27-2011, 06:27 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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your insurance policy "might" cover it
call them and ask
then ya can sub it out
happening here too
dripping in my bedroom
i went up to the second floor and put a big cooler to catch the drips
you can make a temporary plastic V-trench that empties into a funnel
then run it into a garden hose to a toilet or sink or other drain
rather than take any risks BOB
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01-27-2011, 07:09 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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I throw rock salt up there and crack the dam with the backside of an axe. Water POURS out!
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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01-27-2011, 07:23 PM
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Soggy Bottom Boy
Join Date: Jan 2004
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I have a safety harness and I will tie myself off, I am fully trained in fall arrest systems, I have a ladder the problem is there is a few feet of snow up there so the roof rake probably won't work
I am going to get off my lazy butt and get some buckets for tonight
I am not going to involve the insurance Co. because my rates will go up
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