You get used to it. Growing up the porch roof was right outside my bedroom window. When the snow would come sliding off the main roof into the porch roof it was like an earthquake in my room. When we first had the metal roof installed I hated it in the rain, now I kind of miss the sound of it.
Mine arrive today if you want some I live in Depew/Lancaster I can hook you up
All local retail stores are sold out of ice melt and replacing it with grass seed.
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Contractor supply house :tup:
I have significant ice build-up on the edge of my roof, on both sides of my ranch house. Strangely, I have hardly any icicles. I put calcium chloride ice melt in pantyhose and put some of those on the roof to create channels for it to drain. I also shoveled off the snow off the last few feet of roof. After the last thaw/freeze yesterday, I have more ice coming out of the soffit and dripping down the brick. It got behind one of the old storm windows, but not into the house. But I was on the back porch and heard a loud pop noise coming from the area where the ice is forming. I’ve heard that several times in the last few weeks but couldn’t determine where it was coming from. I guess I’ll call my insurance company tomorrow and see what they’ll do. My mom has the same company, and they just paid to have her ice removed, and drywall repaired after water started coming through a kitchen light fixture. I still have half a bag of ice melt to work with. (nobody around Hamburg seems to have any left either.) It would take a whole day of back-breaking labor to break up that ice, and if I damage my roof or gutters, or fall off the roof, it’ll be on me.
took me about 4hrs to get rid of ice and snow…pita
What I gain in untaxed basement square footage, I lose on having to maintain a long ass roof I guess.
Would this stuff work? I hope so because I sprinkled some on my gutters this morning. There is 6+ inches of ice built up and I’d like to get that taken down some.
MSDS Sheet states that it’s 90-92% Calcium Chloride, 4-6% Water, 2-3% Potassium Chloride, 1-2% Sodium Chloride. This looks very similar to the larger tablets, but just in a pellet form. Might work for you guys who can’t get the tablets.
4-6 % of that product will freeze tonight. You’re adding to the problem.
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Doubt your roofer got the ice and water shield behind the gutter.
Is that % really enough to make that much of a difference and when it freezes, it should be off my roof by that point.
Those pellets may help but the idea behind the pucks is to put them far enough up that they melt straight down to the roof and then as the water pulls their salty brine down to your gutter it melts a nice long channel to give the melt water somewhere to drain to. They come in big pucks so they don’t just immediately get flushed down the gutter, instead sitting there on the roof slowly dissolving so they keep the channel open.
The pellets would help more if the temps were above freezing, but on a day like today my guess is they will get washed away as soon as they melt a little water and then the ice dam will just freeze right back up.
That would make sense. I shoveled as much as I could this morning so now it’s just an exposed 1 ft. ice strip across the bottom of the roof line/into the gutter. I just want to get some of it to melt down. I have fake boxed in soffits anyways so if it gets into there, it will still be on the outside of the house.
Take those pellets and stuff them in pantyhose. Lay the pantyhose over the ice so the pellets will dissolve without immediately washing away.
The whole idea around the pelts/melting puck things is temps need to be warm enough to have the ice/snow start melting and dissolve the remaining ice with the mixture.
If its 15 outside and everything on the roof is frozen solid you’re not causing water to pond anyways and once it starts to melt the salt will do its thing
Not true. The whole point of the pucks is to raise the freezing point and get a good melted channel formed. It’s the same reason they put salt on the roads and it melts even though it’s well below 32 degrees. They claim they’ll work down to -25.
Yeah, the bag of Ice melt I just saw said down to -15 and this driveway heat says -25. It was around 0 when I put it down this morning. I figured once it warmed up and the sun would be on it all day, it would start to thaw. The ice is a good 6" above the gutter, so I don’t think I have to worry about it refreezing just yet, it’s going to run off, probably make icicles if the pellets dissolve that quick and I’ll just take those down when I get home.
What im saying is the small amount of melting you get from placing one of those on the roof when its 10 degrees out won’t do that much to deal with ice jams and when its this cold you’re not getting massive ponding on the roof anyways.
However when its in upper 20s and there is a decent melt going which breaks down the tablets and can dissolve the ice jam its hitting.
You really made me laugh on this one.
So my insurance company is going to be doing an estimate on the damages from the ice dams. They asked if I had my roof cleared and I told them that I bought a roof shovel and did it myself. They said that I should give them a bill for my labor. HAs anyone had to do this before? Should I just type up a note that says I did 12 hours work at $$.$$ per hour? Do I use my salary to value my worth or do I value it for the actual work being accomplished?