Thread: Snow problems on roof !!!!

Hi, looking for someone w/experience w/this problem!!! Got to work this a.m., and the office bldg has a pitch to the roof & snow is melting & sliding to the edge--which results in the weight being on the gutters---which is pulling the gutters off the bldg. Any solution to this besides getting someone to go up there & remove the snow? Is the rain (now coming down) adding to the weight of the snow, or will it effectively melt the snow--temperatures outside now are about 37 degrees. I've reported problem to the DM but was hoping someone might have a solution

Thanks, everyone.

Pat
Jamestown, NC

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MisterJim444

LOL---that will be tomorrow---meanwhile I wonder if the roof is going to be intact!!

Latest update, someone is coming out w/ladder to remove the snow that is sitting on the edge.....

Pat
Jamestown, NC

As a "former" snow person I can say you are on the correct track.

Without a major heat wave to melt it all quickly your only solution is for some brave soul with a ladder and a rake or a broom to get up there and pull it all down.

As some one who usually got elected to do that job -- it ain't fun!!!!


Good luck and pray for sunshine!!!

Originally Posted by Autodoc

As a "former" snow person I can say you are on the correct track.

Without a major heat wave to melt it all quickly your only solution is for some brave soul with a ladder and a rake or a broom to get up there and pull it all down.

As some one who usually got elected to do that job -- it ain't fun!!!!


Good luck and pray for sunshine!!!

Thanks, Autodoc, sunshine tomorrow....but then more of the icy stuff at the end of the week.

Pat
Jamestown, NC

North Carolina. Ain't it grand!!

Pat,

It should melt tomorrow. You should see my driveway which is on a hill.

Peter

Originally Posted by peten

Pat,

It should melt tomorrow. You should see my driveway which is on a hill.

Peter

Thank goodness I don't have a hill!!! (at work here anyway). At home my driveway is a slight hill & when I take my dogs out, the yellow lab pulls me & I feel like I'm skiing (minus the skis!)

Yes...supposed to be 50 degrees tomorrow---Hurray!

Pat
Jamestown, NC

Hi There,
This won't help you with your current problem today, but for the future/next winter perhaps I've heard/seen these (for lack of a better description), "pointy" type things that adhere to the roof somehow...preventing snow from falling in large quantities...seen them in the self-storage magazine.........

Originally Posted by finallyfoundit

Hi There,
This won't help you with your current problem today, but for the future/next winter perhaps I've heard/seen these (for lack of a better description), "pointy" type things that adhere to the roof somehow...preventing snow from falling in large quantities...seen them in the self-storage magazine.........

Thanks, usually snow here doesn't stick around like this snow is doing...I'll have to look for those!

Pat
Jamestown, NC