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Household Hints & Help

badhair77

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5. We had this on our home some years ago.

Reply to PJMcK (Original post)

Mon Mar 29, 2021, 12:13 PM

Mar 2021

When we reroofed we added some rubber-like material about a foot from the edge back to cover future issues. Of course on the house we still had gutters. You might want to try some heated tape. It’s not outrageously expensive. Good luck, I feel for you. Ours went down the walls and into the basement. Lots of wet stuff. Insurance gave us some money to cover the damage to the wood floors in the living.

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I think I'm going to learn an expensive lesson [View all] PJMcK Feb 2021 OP

UGH! elleng Feb 2021 #1

If you can access the roof, put the rock salt to it. Get a shovel or pick or ax and chip at it. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2021 #2

Great idea, thanks! (n/t) PJMcK Feb 2021 #4

Read up on getting rid of ice dams - i.e. keeping the whole roof the same temperature as the c-rational Feb 2021 #3

We had this on our home some years ago. badhair77 Mar 2021 #5

The ideal place helenN May 2021 #6

Hi, helenN PJMcK May 2021 #7