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Old 10-30-2011, 02:31 PM
 
Location: Casa Grande, AZ
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well Ship...come on up....we've got extra shovels and the snow came off the roof and now is 4 feet deep on both decks after being so nicely shoveled off. that's about 2 hours worth of shoveling!
Reminder, self...do not shovel deck until roof snow slides....

You will have that problem in AK too
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Old 10-30-2011, 02:54 PM
 
Location: Sevastopol city, Russia.
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Bewitching pics Rance and Bonnie !
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Old 10-30-2011, 02:56 PM
 
Location: Sevastopol city, Russia.
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no kidding! this is just one of the reasons we want to move to AK!!!....
... and better move to Chukotka!
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Old 10-30-2011, 04:52 PM
 
Location: on top of a mountain
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Reminder, self...do not shovel deck until roof snow slides....

You will have that problem in AK too
no can't do that or there would be 10 feet of packed snow on the deck 10 high by 20 ft long...nooooooo...next house NO decks at all!
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Old 10-30-2011, 05:13 PM
 
Location: Valdez, Alaska
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no can't do that or there would be 10 feet of packed snow on the deck 10 high by 20 ft long...nooooooo...next house NO decks at all!
Decks are great! I'm surprised at how many people around here have uncovered decks though. Completely useless for half the year, and it increases your shoveling. All you need is a sliding roof on top of a deck and life is wonderful! That's next summer's project for us!

I'm jealous of all the snow you guys got, too. We get started a little slow, but we'll definitely get ours!
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Old 10-30-2011, 05:16 PM
 
Location: on top of a mountain
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Decks are great! I'm surprised at how many people around here have uncovered decks though. Completely useless for half the year, and it increases your shoveling. All you need is a sliding roof on top of a deck and life is wonderful! That's next summer's project for us!

I'm jealous of all the snow you guys got, too. We get started a little slow, but we'll definitely get ours!
go with a 3 season room that open up then closes up for winter! no shoveling...we've had decks for 32+ yrs...no more thank you!
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Old 10-30-2011, 06:00 PM
 
Location: Manhattan Island
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well Ship...come on up....we've got extra shovels and the snow came off the roof and now is 4 feet deep on both decks after being so nicely shoveled off. that's about 2 hours worth of shoveling!
Oh man... sorry that happened, that sucks. We had "roof rakes" that we used in Vermont. We would "rake" the first four or five feet of the roof, and the rest would take care of itself! Prevents ice dams for the most part too. I wish I could come up and shovel snow. I would bring my Ford 30 tractor (ok, not exactly mine, but I run it all day) and use the grader blade, knock it out quick. 'Course, that wouldn't work so well on a deck; the weight of the thing might be a problem. But yeah, that's what I'll be doing this winter when it snows: turn the grader blade around backward and push the snow in reverse with the tractor. It works beautifully.
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Old 10-30-2011, 06:17 PM
 
Location: Valdez, Alaska
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go with a 3 season room that open up then closes up for winter! no shoveling...we've had decks for 32+ yrs...no more thank you!
We're actually planning on sliding windows so it'll be a combination deck/sunroom. So no shoveling and we'll be able to use it all year, since it'll be about fifteen feet from the woodstove.

What's funny around here is that nearly everyone has a metal roof, so the snow slides off, but then they get big berms all around their houses and have to shovel the same doorways repeatedly during a storm, and some even board up lower-story windows to protect them from sliding snow. There's not much use in cutting down the berms because they're just going to build up again with the next big snowfall, and your lower story winds up being a dungeon. We have one of the few shingled roofs in town, and the previous owner (who lived here for 20 years) only had to shovel it once a year and some years not at all. It's a stoutly built house for sure, but I'd much rather be able to shovel it when I want to than have it constantly falling off, blocking doors and whatnot. My boss actually got stuck in his garage once in a 5-foot dump because his roof sheds onto the driveway. If he'd had a shingled roof he'd have been fine. Sometimes you have to shovel metal roofs too, especially if they have complicated angles. And it's a lot more dangerous to get on a metal roof than a shingled one.
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Old 10-30-2011, 06:26 PM
 
Location: on top of a mountain
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tigre79...we have a metal roof an if you have ever had an ice dam that builds up under shingles and ruins your roof/ceilings/walls etc you would understand why to have a metal roof...you also design a house so the over hang is far enough away from the house to prevent the "berms"...having had the pleasure of designing 5 houses that have been built, 4 which are in New England I have learned a lot of what "not" to design (designed to the persons wishes against suggestions) again for a snow area. Much depends on where you are for how to design a home properly.
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Old 10-30-2011, 06:32 PM
 
Location: Valdez, Alaska
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tigre79...we have a metal roof an if you have ever had an ice dam that builds up under shingles and ruins your roof/ceilings/walls etc you would understand why to have a metal roof...you also design a house so the over hang is far enough away from the house to prevent the "berms"...having had the pleasure of designing 5 houses that have been built, 4 which are in New England I have learned a lot of what "not" to design (designed to the persons wishes against suggestions) again for a snow area. Much depends on where you are for how to design a home properly.
Eh, this house has been here for over thirty years and it hasn't been a problem at all. Simple roof lines help a lot. And we get a bit of snow here, as you might know. You're going to get berms under the eaves regardless of the overhang when you get 30 feet a year, though it's true that a lot of the houses here that were thrown up in the pipeline days weren't built all that well for these conditions. I'm still much happier with our shingles than I'd be with all that slushy crap coming off the roof all the time.
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