January 24, 2012 12:25pm by Team | 
This winter has been great so far! My gutters have really appreciated it! Last year we were plagued with massive ice dams that had water dripping inside windows and into bedrooms. As a last ditch effort to deal with those dams last year I went out an bought a length of gutter heating cable and [...]
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We have this gutter run that is about 40 feet long along one side of our home. Over the past few years it has developed a sag (probably due to ice dams) that cause it to fill up and overflow during heavy rains. And even when it’s not raining, water obviously sits up there [...] You guys may know that I’m a fan of Do It Yourself gutter guards. A few years ago I posted about the success I’ve had with the American Plastics gutter guards that you can buy at Home Depot and other home stores. They aren’t perfect, but they are an incredibly economical solution to the [...] Here’s a video we came across on YouTube where This Old House does a tiny review… overview… really of some unnamed gutter systems. I have a few problems with this video. It sounds like they are all half asleep, especially the host. Their “test” of the various systems is ridiculous at best. They seem [...] Reader J. Woodson offers some advice born of experience in the are of selecting a gutter guard system for your home. Here are his comments: I would like to tell all consumers who are interested in purchasing gutter guards of any kind, that as someone who has installed gutters and guards for almost 20 [...] The Wall Street Journal recently post an article tabulating the various ways in which your home may have been damaged this winter. Here are a few excerpts: Kathleen Hassinger and Brandon Halbert in Wynnewood, Pa., are among those whose home sustained multiple winter wounds. Ice dams damaged their 100-year-old home’s slate roof and left [...] Here in Connecticut it was a rough winter for gutters. We had massive ice dams on a section of roof line that has experienced them in the past. Everybody else had them too. There were a couple of days in February where it was a “perfect storm” for ice dams in our area. Luckily [...] Those crazy Minnesotans are so sick of ice dams that they decided to get poetic about it thanks to a little prompting by Jon Tevlin over at the Minnesota Star Tribune. Here are a couple of the examples along with a link to the full article. Whose roof this is I think I know: [...] I would not recommend removing ice dams using a chain saw. I guess these guys felt that extreme circumstances call for extreme measures! The better way to remove (or prevent) ice dams is with roof and gutter heating cable. Don’t try this at home! And turn off your speakers because the music in this [...] Ugh, this was the winter of the ice dams. My gutters along one stretch of my roof definitely sustained some damage this winter. This is an older section of the roof where the sharply pitched roof was dormered in the late 70s to create more room upstairs. This reduced the pitch of the roof [...] |
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