Check your attic!

[4eyedstang]

For the guys that got hammered by the blizzard last week. check your attics. i was just up in mine and found very large snow drifts under several of my roof vent enough to fill a large cooler 14 times! thank god i got to it before it melted and caused real problems.

hope this saves some headaches for you guys

[pOrk]

Woah, didn't even think of that. I have 3ft of snow on my roof and vents are buried so ill check on mine after work.

[awsomeears]

Very good info !!!

I was up in a attic the other day and there was snow in it, not much but it got me thinking...

[PonyKiller87]

Woah, didn't even think of that. I have 3ft of snow on my roof and vents are buried so ill check on mine after work.

You might want to get a roof rake and take care of that before it causes problems.

[pOrk]

I shoveled about 1/3 of it so far, shits heavy and its slippery up therrr

[PonyKiller87]

Thats why you use a roof rake, you can stand on the ground and pull it down. No lifting, and no worry of falling. Unless you have a 2 story then its kind of hard to use.

Most hardware stores carry them for about $30

[jbiscuit]

You guys have snow on your roof? Other than one small patch it all blew right off with the high winds

[pOrk]

A rake wouldn't work in this case, I know what your talking about I use one at my grandmas house to clear her roof. Because of the cold we got soo soon after the snow it is VERY difficult to move.

[Exitspeed]

This Acalanche is kind of expensive but it WORKS!

http://www.avalanche-snow.com/index.asp

We use it on the lake house our family has in Rhinelander. Even with heavy hard snow, you can push this through and the slow literally just falls down.

[Russ Jerome]

If you rake the snow down after a fall you wont get ice! Snow gathers, melts (from poor insulation) and comes down as iceicles from your gutter.

I waited till Dec to check my attic....could use about 20 bags of insulation...hence the roof shovel purchase :(

[pOrk]

Lucky for me I have a ton of insulation in my attic so the snow isn't iceing up my gutters, still need to clear the roof though as it ain't getting any lighter. Then again I hear we will be in the 40s for a few days so that should make it easy.