Winter in New England has been fierce this year, and has led to several roofs in the area collapsing under the weight of all of the snow and ice. To remedy this there are some options:
1. ignore it and pray the roof doesn't collapse
2. climb up on roof and shovel off the 2+ feet of snow
3. use a snow rake and pull snow off of roof
4. make salt or sodium chloride balls and toss them on to roof to promote melting
We chose number four at our house after we decided that number one can just lead to more cracks in the plaster of my bedroom ceiling (it is actually part of the roof, but finished nicely with plaster), and numbers two and three won't work because of the height, steepness of the roof and size of the house.
4. make salt or sodium chloride balls and toss them on to roof to promote melting
This is how it works:
Buy a couple bulk packages of knee highs, or pantyhose. Buy a bag of rock salt or sodium chloride or other snow melting product. Put a cup-ish full of the snow melt into toe of hose and tie a knot in hose to keep product in. Stand out side and face your roof, hold the end of nylon that doesn't contain the snow melt, swing the package around as if you were swinging a jump rope and let go at the top of the arc so that the package flies up and lands on the roof. Do this several times- say one package of hose per side of house (we used 19 knee highs per one side of the house- whould have had twenty, but dog caught one and tore it apart.) Eventually the snow melt will sink down into the snow making the bottom layer of snow melt causing the snow to slide off of the roof.
There is one drawback- when you are finished it will look like there are Pteradactyl turds on the roof.
1. ignore it and pray the roof doesn't collapse
2. climb up on roof and shovel off the 2+ feet of snow
3. use a snow rake and pull snow off of roof
4. make salt or sodium chloride balls and toss them on to roof to promote melting
We chose number four at our house after we decided that number one can just lead to more cracks in the plaster of my bedroom ceiling (it is actually part of the roof, but finished nicely with plaster), and numbers two and three won't work because of the height, steepness of the roof and size of the house.
4. make salt or sodium chloride balls and toss them on to roof to promote melting
This is how it works:
Buy a couple bulk packages of knee highs, or pantyhose. Buy a bag of rock salt or sodium chloride or other snow melting product. Put a cup-ish full of the snow melt into toe of hose and tie a knot in hose to keep product in. Stand out side and face your roof, hold the end of nylon that doesn't contain the snow melt, swing the package around as if you were swinging a jump rope and let go at the top of the arc so that the package flies up and lands on the roof. Do this several times- say one package of hose per side of house (we used 19 knee highs per one side of the house- whould have had twenty, but dog caught one and tore it apart.) Eventually the snow melt will sink down into the snow making the bottom layer of snow melt causing the snow to slide off of the roof.
There is one drawback- when you are finished it will look like there are Pteradactyl turds on the roof.
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