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22 Jan 08 - 02:16 PM (#2242174) Subject: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: gnu CMHC has a pretty good article here. Even though they can't spell "rooves" correctly. I speed-read most paragraphs so I don't know if the following was mentioned. Best way I know to alleviate ice damming on an emergency basis is to lay pantyhose with deicer in them ever 1200mm (4ft) or so. Yes, I am serious. And, no, I don't. |
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22 Jan 08 - 02:21 PM (#2242175) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: Megan L Emmmmmmmmm remember to tak them aff first lad |
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22 Jan 08 - 02:32 PM (#2242187) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: SINSULL Fond memories of bottom body halves flung on my roof while the neighbors looked on in horror. LOL |
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22 Jan 08 - 02:33 PM (#2242189) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: Jeri It's roofs. I seem to remember an earlier thread on ice dams, and Barry Finn wrote a song about the slippery work of getting rid of them. I didn't think about the panty hose. I just filled up a sock, tied a string on, threw it on the roof and pulled it until it was on the ice. I moved it after a while. I've never had any back-up, but the dam I had forming made me think it could happen. |
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22 Jan 08 - 02:42 PM (#2242197) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: gnu It is not ROOFS. You are from New England.... England.... rooves is right proper I says. |
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22 Jan 08 - 02:42 PM (#2242198) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: GUEST,Peace "Removal of ice from rooves" Spring |
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22 Jan 08 - 02:54 PM (#2242209) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: Q (Frank Staplin) rooves- remember Tolkien and dwarves? (roove- an obsolete term for rivet) In high snowfall areas in interior British Columbia, high-pitched sheet metal roofs are often used. |
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22 Jan 08 - 03:30 PM (#2242246) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: Rapparee I used to use a 4 foot long piece of 1.5" galvanized pipe. Broke up ice dams, icicles, heads, arms, legs.... |
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22 Jan 08 - 04:08 PM (#2242292) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: Barry Finn It wasn't fun but it was a good source of fast cash. Ice Damming by Barry Finn It's winter in New England and throughout the land The trucks will start rolling with all available hands It's a party, a picnic, a past time, a plan Over mountains of snow they attack the Ice Dams Chorus: And you hear everywhere the cry Ice Dam Down the flue like a fever it spreads through the land Man your pickups, your axes, every woman and man And answer the call and the cry Ice Dam Blaze a path round a house in snow that's waist deep Take a snow rake or shovel, clear up 3 feet Crawl the edge of a dam on a roof that's too steep And start pounding on ice and let nobody sleep On a 40 foot ladder that slides on the ice Out comes the homeowner who tries to be nice I like what you're doing but I won't pay you're price For a few dollars less would you still risk your life Some shingles may break & the ice will sure fall But no more will the water run down your walls So pay us in cash & don't call our hall Is it legal to be paid cash to have such a ball Like ants, like termites we're all over your roof We sing ice dam and drink 100 proof It's our tough winter windfall & that's the dam truth When ice damming is done we're a winter recluse Copyright, Barry Finn 1996 (winter) |
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22 Jan 08 - 05:11 PM (#2242354) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: Rapparee We used to get ice dams on the rivers that fed into the Mississippi, back when I was growing (figuratively) up. They'd dynamite 'em. But when we got ice dams on the roof in Indiana my wife said no when I told her how we used to deal with 'em in Illinois. |
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22 Jan 08 - 05:16 PM (#2242362) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: Megan L She is just being unreasonable lad if it worked in Illinois. :) |
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22 Jan 08 - 05:44 PM (#2242377) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: ranger1 My dad used to be my brother's handyman for his rental properties in exchange for free housing. I spent one winter helping him out on weekends. Learned a lot of useful things, many of them in the "what not to do" category. We had a lot of snow that winter and we spent a lot of time up on various roofs removing snow and ice. I have yet to forget the sight of my dad, half-way up the ladder when it slid away from the house. He had this resigned look on his face and if he had been a famous cartoon coyote, would have been holding up a sign that said "Oh, shit!" I did check the ladder to see if it had "Acme" anywhere on it. |
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23 Jan 08 - 07:47 AM (#2242713) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: gnu Ladders that are not properly equipped for ice are dangerous. My bro didn't know what he was doing and learned the hard way. Broke his wrist bad. At the hospital emerg, he met twenty one similarly educated others. |
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23 Jan 08 - 09:19 AM (#2242780) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: maeve We just use a "roof rake" made for the job. Works a treat, and no pantyhose required. It's kept the dams from forming, both in terms of snow to ice, and verbally. maeve |
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23 Jan 08 - 02:33 PM (#2243007) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: Nick 1 Put on sunglasses and a pair of bermuda shorts 2 Pour long cool drink 3 Remove all the insulation from the roof and turn the heating up to full blast and drink the drink as the heat disappears through the roof (along with your money) Field tested on a dolls house and it seems to work - not sure if it will scale up or not |
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23 Jan 08 - 04:33 PM (#2243095) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: SINSULL uNFORTUANTELY, IN ORDER TO USE THE ROOF RAKE i HAVE TO SHOVEL A FEW FIVE FOOT SNOW DRIFTS (READ iCE pILES) BEFORE i CAN EVEN GET NEAR THE ROOF. dAMN cAPSLOCK. On his last trip, Micca was looking out my front window watching a man on a steeply inclined roof trying to remove snow and ice. Like an accident, you just have to look. |
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23 Jan 08 - 04:41 PM (#2243099) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: WFDU - Ron Olesko I just checked two dictionaries - it's roofs. |
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23 Jan 08 - 04:43 PM (#2243101) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: bobad hoof - hooves roof - rooves Makes sense to me. |
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23 Jan 08 - 05:27 PM (#2243130) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: frogprince I think there are some silly gooves on this thread. |
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23 Jan 08 - 06:02 PM (#2243160) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: Jeri Pooves? "Most people call gay men 'gay men', but my rude uncle calls them 'pooves'." Noun proof-prooves, as in, "On the math test, he came up with the right answers but his prooves were crap." "I can play that tune, but I make a lot of gooves." It's 'ROOFS'. I can link to several on-line dictionaries. Please link to one that indicates 'rooves' is a real word. Even a British one. I think the sock-on-a-string works great. You can heave them from the ground (if you can find it) or from an open window. |
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23 Jan 08 - 06:37 PM (#2243187) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: bobad gnu lives in New Brunswick, dat's the way they talk dere. |
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24 Jan 08 - 01:36 PM (#2243764) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: Murray MacLeod it is "roofs" in Britain as well. "hoof" and "poof" (slang )are the only words ending in " ...oof" that alter to a "v" in the plural as far as I am aware |
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24 Jan 08 - 02:02 PM (#2243791) Subject: RE: BS: Removal of ice from rooves From: Sorcha You mean....if we have icicles we probably have an ice dam? Hell, every house I've ever lived in has had icicles and no one has ever raked the roof. Nobody ever has in any place I've ever lived. Kansas, New Mexico and now Wyoming. Until I looked at some pics, I didn't even really know what an ice damn is. |