[Main General Bulletin Board | BBFAQ | Prev by Date | Next by Date | Post Followup ] Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos Re: Roof Rake -- caution Like This Post: - Subscribe to Daily Digest for this Bulletin Board Posted by pme [Email] (#1496) [Profile/Gallery] (more from pme) on Thu, 28 Jan 2016 09:16:35 In Reply to: Re: Roof Rake, NJWayne, Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:49:04 Alert me when someone posts in this thread: Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup

A few years ago, I used my roof rake to try to clear a drifted mound of snow that ran about 5 feet up my roof, over my front door.

It was a warm day and the snow was heavy and wet. I used the rake to pull the bulk of the snow down, and watched as the roof below where I cut the mound dried up.

That night, the leading edge of the remaining snow froze, right along my cut line, and formed an ice dam well beyond where the shield under the roof is. The next day's melt accumulated behind it and worked its way into the attic. I had to get on the roof then and clear the remaining snow.

What I do now is try to clear either all the way to the roof ridge in the dam prone areas, and elsewhere clear up 2 or 3 feet, at an angel to the roof edge so that if any dams form along my clearing line, any water melt behind them can escape.

Also, when we did some renovations a few years ago, we reinsulated the attics and have much less heat loss accelerating roof melt than we used to.

This past storm we were lucky. The winds kept the roof pretty clear (nearly all melted already), although gave me some interesting ground-level drifts to deal with.

• Ice Dams, Damage - Advise Needed, larry, Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:16:25
  • Ice dams and roof raking. A few parts to this., Noel, Mon, 1 Feb 2016 07:00:06
  • Attic Insulation,Ventilation, Drywall, and Roof Rake, MI-Roger , Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:27:03
    • ventilation/insulation, Snowmobile , Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:53:05
    • Re: Roof Rake, NJWayne, Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:49:04
      • Re: Roof Rake -- caution, pme , Thu, 28 Jan 2016 09:16:35 <-- Viewing This Message
        • Hmmm, I only had problems before using a roof rake, nm, MI-Roger , Thu, 28 Jan 2016 10:41:44
          • Surprised me too Roger. I was not happy. NM, pme , Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:32:38
    • Re: Attic Insulation,Ventilation, Drywall, and Roof Rake, Larry Udoff, Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:22:38
      • Re: Attic Insulation,Ventilation, Drywall, and Roof Rake, AdamSAAB2kAero , Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:42:05
        • Only use Roof Rake from the ground!, MI-Roger , Thu, 28 Jan 2016 03:10:27
          • Ideal Situations, AdamSAAB2kAero , Thu, 28 Jan 2016 14:35:32
          • Re: amazing, Tom G , Thu, 28 Jan 2016 06:47:49
            • Winter head gear limits peripheral vision, MI-Roger , Thu, 28 Jan 2016 08:44:51
              • Once again...., Larry, Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:47:32
        • Re: Attic Insulation,Ventilation, Drywall, and Roof Rake, Landjet , Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:39:24

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