Do you have icicles hanging from your eves? If not you will probably be OK.
If I was Han Solo I'd probably pet my wookie
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From: Dan Rossi
To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Great idea.
Well, this was all good fun anyway. Yes, your run of the mill hand held
torch will do very little against any real mass of ice, as many people in
the area are finding out. My neighbors and I have kicked around a number
of concepts for bleeding off the water in the ice dams along our
roof-lines. Anywhere from hooking up a hose to the hot water tap and
strapping the hose to a long pipe. To dumping calcium chloride in a few
key spots.
I personally know three people who have already had major ceiling damage
caused by ice dams on their roofs.
There are some pretty serious icicles hanging off the buildings around
campus. Apparently, one building has icicles that grew curved due to some
strong wind funneling in the area. My buddy says they are about 8 to 10
feet long and curved so they look like a long row of pretty serious teeth.
Oh well. Guess I'll just go out with a shovel over the weekend and hack a
path through the worst parts of the sidewalks.
--
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
E-Mail: d...@andrew.cmu.edu
Tel: (412) 268-9081
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