Question about snow on roofs

[Pat McCotter]

as long as its quick! 

and as long as i dont fall off the roof, and crack my neck!

Or break your butt?

[Riddler]

I LOVE BOOBS

Hey Now!

[Beth221]

and here i was tying to forget about the cracked ass..!

[Michael Fisher]

On this topic, I have a roof with several feet of snow on it, and the snow keeps falling. It is beginning to make me wonder how much more it can hold.

How could I rig up a good roof-clearing device? A snow-rake with a rope?

[Lloyd Danforth]

Move to New Hampshire.................Oh wait, there's snow on the roof here too!

[Riddler]

On this topic, I have a roof with several feet of snow on it, and the snow keeps falling. It is beginning to make me wonder how much more it can hold.

How could I rig up a good roof-clearing device? A snow-rake with a rope?

If it's a low pitch roof that you can get on & walk on safely, get a mini gas snowblower (so you don't have a coronary shovelling). they are very light (looks like a weedwacker w/ a small snowblower scoop/auger) & throw the snow a fair distance. I bought one for my commercial bldg & it works great. Or, like i did 2-3 wks ago, hire some kids to do it for you.

[MaineShark]

Move to New Hampshire.................Oh wait, there's snow on the roof here too!

Not on mine.  These few days of warm weather finally took care of it.

I was thinking that if I ever build a "large" building, I'll install radiant tubing in the roof (just like I would in the driveway/sidewalk) and melt the snow away as it falls.

Joe

[Lloyd Danforth]

None here either.  But, Mike doesn't know that   The melting snow was dripping off the roof and hitting a piece of skirting that surrounds the bottom of this trailer and for the last few days it sounded as if it was raining 

[Russell Kanning]

On this topic, I have a roof with several feet of snow on it, and the snow keeps falling. It is beginning to make me wonder how much more it can hold.

How could I rig up a good roof-clearing device? A snow-rake with a rope?

just go up there and push it off .... I used a snow blower once on a pretty flat roof in Salt Lake

[Beth221]

would a leaf blower work for light powder snow? 

[Riddler]

would a leaf blower work for light powder snow? 

Prob. not very well, but you'd definitely amuse passersby...."look at the jackass on the roof w/ the leaf blower!"....

[MaineShark]

would a leaf blower work for light powder snow?

Prob. not very well, but you'd definitely amuse passersby...."look at the jackass on the roof w/ the leaf blower!"....

Gotta agree with baba on that one.  Getting snow airborne as powder tends to just put you in the middle of a snow tornado.  Not very pleasant, even if it did get the stuff off the roof.

Now, if you were topless and being shot with paintballs while using a leaf blower on your roof, I think you might make it on the news!

An electric broom would be a decent way to handle a flat or low-pitch roof.

Personally, I just use a shovel on the two roofs I have that are low-pitch, and a rake on the rest of the house.

Joe

[Michael Fisher]

It's a pretty low-pitch roof, but an extension pole for painting (15-20' long) is working fine for the majority of the snow. Removed probably several thousand pounds of snow from the roof yesterday.  Old, compacted, and quasi-melted snow, mostly.

I just poked holes under the snow, then pushed left to right to clear a thin layer under it, and cut the left and right sides of the snow. Voilà, it falls off of its own accord. But it takes a few hours per roof section.