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I just got home after yet another thrill a minute slide from cumberland all the way to charleston. You'd think by now I'd stop listening to the weather channel when it comes to I-68! If you must go out, take it easy on the roads today. That inch of slush is masking black ice.
Came home to pretty icicles hanging down the gutters and noted the gutter is clogged with solid ice (enough to split the connection to the downspout). This can't be a good thing for that first course of shingles. Hammer time??
OK OK not at 3am, but how else in the afternoon? I can't picture myself holding a heat gun that long.
If you can get at it, hang a high-wattage "trouble light" as close to the frozen area as possible. At least that has worked for me on frozen pipes in the basement.
I think plumbers apply a voltage (in series with a variable resistor) to pipes and metal gutters, but that's one of those "don't try this at home, folks" solutions.
My outdoor sensor thermometer went as low as -3 this morning, although the weather service says it only went down to +5.
Why take a chance on falling and breaking a bone...
Grandmother Nature will take care of this ice freeze as soon as Al Gore gives her a call and explains that our pending ice age and global warming mean the same thing...
Whatever happened to that hole in the Ozone Layer?
Every decade we have an Eco-hoax...
And a fellow told me that the reproducing cycle of Polar Bears was up 50%...due to the warmer climate and the little bears being more able to survive...
I've never seen that available to ordinary consumers, only industrial purposes. I think I'll give ace hardware a call tomorrow. Turns out the whole neighborhood has the same problem. Someone selling gutters is going to be very busy come spring. Neighbors directly next door had their gutter completely split in half on centerline. Ice damming is in full force even on slate roof homes.
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Originally Posted by Threerun
Hot water. You don't want to bang on frozen aluminum gutters with a hammer or ice pick.
Or of the sun comes out (ha-ha), put a black plastic bag or tarp over the ice to speed up the thawing process.
Well, I do WANT to bang on them because it's ugly and needs replacement, but you're right that I shouldn't so I'll behave (for now ). My case I think I need 2 downspouts because even when gutters are clean it can't keep up with torrents we get from time to time.
We used to do that hot water trick on our dock when product would freeze in the pipe. Don't even ask how cold it has to be outside for gas to freeze. Suffice to say my enmity of cold extremes was earned. Bucket brigade with coffee pots. I think I'll go with that tomorrow if I can find a steady ladder and see how it flies. The snow melting when our mild 40 degree winter returns during the week is going to need a way out & best I be ahead of that 8 ball.
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Originally Posted by snorpus
If you can get at it, hang a high-wattage "trouble light" as close to the frozen area as possible. At least that has worked for me on frozen pipes in the basement.
I think plumbers apply a voltage (in series with a variable resistor) to pipes and metal gutters, but that's one of those "don't try this at home, folks" solutions.
My outdoor sensor thermometer went as low as -3 this morning, although the weather service says it only went down to +5.
My car thermometer dipped down to 8 on my ride between morgantown and cumberland. Elevation temps are in a league of their own.
You're gonna laugh hard. I replaced the bulbs on my spot lighting with high lumen fluorescent because I didn't see the point of them being so hot. LMAO. OK, smacking self, push ups till someone else is tired.
FYI about those fluorescent lights for outdoor purposes-- the flood lights used in motion detector type units don't have a ballast that's compatible with CFL use, but neither is advertising that fact in packaging. Good thing I haven't worn my welcome with the Goldfarb guys- they've spared me lots of troubles and look forward to comic relief hearing the latest DIY project. I pride myself at having the power to make employees shake their heads with disbelief, but really, they deserve all the credit becoming fluent so quickly in female thingamabob doHickey language.
ALICET if you don't cease and desist your santanic 'let it snow' spell my neighborhood is going to classless action suit your bigfoot in pepto pink tulle of the ugliest bridesmaid ever lived. Charleston lawyers are abundant and very skinny this season.
***another brilliant idea of mine was using ice melt. I didn't do that well in college chemistry to know how much damage that experiment would do to aluminum. OK back to being hayve.
ALICET if you don't cease and desist your santanic 'let it snow' spell my neighborhood is going to classless action suit your bigfoot in pepto pink tulle of the ugliest bridesmaid ever lived. Charleston lawyers are abundant and very skinny this season.
Maybe it has something to do with Santa? :P We, too, were wishing for snow and now we are good- no more please!
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). My case I think I need 2 downspouts because even when gutters are clean it can't keep up with torrents we get from time to time.
ALICET if you don't cease and desist your santanic 'let it snow' spell my neighborhood is going to classless action suit your bigfoot in pepto pink tulle of the ugliest bridesmaid ever lived. Charleston lawyers are abundant and very skinny this season.
