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01-08-2013, 12:14 PM | #16 |
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There may be longer icicles below the unheated sectons because the melt water that runs of is only just above freezing so more quickly refreezes when it is exposed to the air. Melt water from sections of the roof above heated rooms, especially if insulation is poor will be warmer and has more chance to run all the way down and drip off the icicle to the ground before it cools down enought o freeze.
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01-08-2013, 12:46 PM | #17 |
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yes.
Before we insulated the attic an ice chunk icicle aggregate fell off and crushed our steel wheel barrow flat. Smashed the oak handles like they were nothing and completely mashed the steel basin flat. Ice can fuck up your shit.
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01-08-2013, 03:14 PM | #18 |
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Looks like the flow of water from basically all the roofing area on the right side of the house travels to that one spot as well. Design flaw?
More water freezing = more ice, no?
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01-08-2013, 03:17 PM | #19 | |
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Quote:
My guess is that some of the house is not original. Additions almost always involve compromises in design.
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01-08-2013, 03:20 PM | #20 |
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thank you for posting the image in my head classic.
Perfect. *** zippyt Look. unless you change the shape of your roof so that the traffic patterns make people walk under the edge of the roof where there is no slope toward the path people are walking on, you're gonna have a problem. for your long horizontal at the end of some considerable slope you're always gonna shed snow there. it's not a problem when it's just rain, your gutters catch it and redirect it. to redirect the snow you'lll need some kind of snowplow shaped diverter over the walkpath. that, or you're just gonna have to manually remove it.
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01-08-2013, 04:12 PM | #21 |
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Thanks All , we are in need of redoing the front porch any way so there may be an alternative walking path in our future
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01-08-2013, 04:32 PM | #22 |
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Pretty much correct. The story passed down was that it was two houses joined together. The portion on the right has no basement and just sits on some rocks. There are some weird upstairs passageways. It's got a very bizarre floorplan.
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01-08-2013, 05:07 PM | #23 |
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Zippy, don't you have some kind of flame thrower / yard torch thingie?
Problem solved, the FUN way. Just be a little careful, eh?
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01-08-2013, 08:29 PM | #24 |
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Keeping the roof from letting loose a full load of snow on someones head is why my entryway roof is perpendicular to the main roof. Pictured door is temporary, Hobbit door in design phase.
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01-08-2013, 09:34 PM | #25 |
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Zippy, don't you have some kind of flame thrower / yard torch thingie?
Yes I do , but the roof is slippery on a dry day , much less covered in snow and ice , so i believe my rather large self AINT getten up there Geez Zen are ya tryen to kill me ??????
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01-08-2013, 09:48 PM | #26 |
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Please note snowplow shaped snow diverter above traffic path on Griffs house
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01-09-2013, 12:44 PM | #27 |
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BigV is always up for a deadly challenge like that
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01-09-2013, 01:56 PM | #28 |
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True....
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01-09-2013, 05:59 PM | #29 |
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V would stand under the ice, on a ladder, juggling a running chainsaw, so that at the top of the arc, the chainsaw would nibble away at the ice.
And it would work.
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01-09-2013, 06:32 PM | #30 |
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changing it back into gently falling snow.
Or, with the suitable application of lime juice and tequila, Snowgheritas!
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