Finally! A serious Maine Winter... (how much, houses, buy)

[IHeartMaine]

The cold is supposed to moderate by the time it reaches Maine. After last weeks deep freeze.......we don't need anymore.

Next weekend looks more like recent "normal" winters with temps in the 20s/30s.

[TerryDactyls]

I writing from Austin, Texas where the current temperature is 23. The locals are going nuts. You would think Armaggedon has arrived. There's no precipitation at all, but people are calling in sick because of the fear of going outside in such ungodly temperatures. I wore a light-weight insulated vest to work over my usual shirt. I just made sure to cover my head and hands and I was feeling very comfortable. May 31st is retirement day and August 1st is the moving day from Austin to Portland. I am anxiously awaiting my first real winter since I left Minnesota in 1983.

[IHeartMaine]

51 right now in Albion.......snow and ice melting rapidly. +80 degree change in temps from a few days ago. Crazy weather.........

[maineguy8888]

34 in Caribou, with freezing rain. Windy too!

[Three Wolves In Snow]

I'm very interested in this rope idea. The rain washed away all those horrid icicles on the sides of the house, (the gigantic ones that I posted in the real estate forum), but it hasn't quite gotten through all of the ice on the roof. Right now, I'm dealing with 10 leaks in the house, one of them is pouring. Not dripping, POURING in to the house.

I called the LL asap and told her she needs to get someone out here now, because every hour, a new leak opens up. It's crazy. Someone is on the way, he's supposed to go up and get rid of the ice on the roof....

Should he put ropes up? Should he put a tarp up? What should he do, or what can he do, to stop these leaks? The LL thinks it's coming in from the edges of the roof...I don't know, I need any suggestions to share with the LL.

I just want it to stop raining in here...it's bad.

[IHeartMaine]

Up to 53 in Albion.

[AustinB]

Originally Posted by Three Wolves In Snow

I'm very interested in this rope idea. The rain washed away all those horrid icicles on the sides of the house, (the gigantic ones that I posted in the real estate forum), but it hasn't quite gotten through all of the ice on the roof. Right now, I'm dealing with 10 leaks in the house, one of them is pouring. Not dripping, POURING in to the house.

I called the LL asap and told her she needs to get someone out here now, because every hour, a new leak opens up. It's crazy. Someone is on the way, he's supposed to go up and get rid of the ice on the roof....

Should he put ropes up? Should he put a tarp up? What should he do, or what can he do, to stop these leaks? The LL thinks it's coming in from the edges of the roof...I don't know, I need any suggestions to share with the LL.

I just want it to stop raining in here...it's bad.

Sounds like an ice dam at the edge of the roof. Pounding on the ice with a hammer would get rid if it.

[slyfox2]

They use the ropes all over western Mass, and southern New Hampshire. But you can only put them up if the roof is clear of snow. and they won't work if you get ice. When you have a heavy snowfall, it cuts the bottom off the snow. They are not fool proof and you may still need roof rakes. The best to have is a steep metal roof, IMO. I have neither.

But after two days of raking, I've gotten enough off the roof so that I shouldn't have any issues. I know someone with a flat roof that has a small electric snow thrower that he keeps permanent on the roof and after doing his driveway he snow blows the roof. What a trip!

The north roof of my saltbox is a place in the winter "where the sun don't shine". And my house so so well insulated with foam that even with daytime interior temps at 75 and all the heat rising right up along the interior of that roof, it never melts at all. The rafters are 15 OC 2 x 6's at least, maybe 2 x 8's.

[Three Wolves In Snow]

Originally Posted by AustinB

Sounds like an ice dam at the edge of the roof. Pounding on the ice with a hammer would get rid if it.

You are absolutely right. He just left. He spent the last almost hour beating the snot out of the ice. It was like thunder listening to that ice slam to the ground.

Anyway, he was still working on it when I went around and checked on all of the leaks. Except for the one that was pouring earlier, and the one by the kitchen light fixture, all other leaks stopped. THANK GOD.

The one that was pouring is down to a moderate drip, and the one in the kitchen, coming out of the same tile as the light fixture is still leaking in three spots, but the drips are much slower. Maybe it's just left overs?

This guy is supposed to come by from now on whenever there's a snowfall....and he did a good job, unlike the other twit, so I'm going to sing his praises to the LL.

[mainebrokerman]

whoever pyssed off mother nature,,please stop

this rain is pooling on many of the side/back roads,