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Experts recommend removing roof snow to prevent leaking
by Outspoken on Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:02 am
Experts recommend removing roof snow to prevent leaking
By Nok-Noi Ricker
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
With warmer weather - possibly as high as 45 degrees - predicted for this weekend, snow removal experts are recommending that homeowners remove the snow that has accumulated on roofs.
The frozen blanket of snow is likely to begin to melt with the warmer temperatures, causing water damage, especially around windows.
"Do it now because if it warms up it’s going to start leaking," Archie Maloon, owner of Maloon Builders from Dover-Foxcroft, said Thursday. "If you wait for it to leak, it’s going to come into your house and it’s going to cause damage.
"You have to get the source of the water off the roof," he stressed.
When that moving water freezes at night, it can create ice dams, which can cause water backup and more leakage, said Maloon, who has 25 years of experience building homes and with snow and ice removal.
Once these ice dams form, the melted snow that pools up behind them can push up roof shingles and create leaks that enter homes and damage them, he said.
Brewer residents Carroll Ellingwood, who is a full-time self-employed snow remover during the winter, and Mark Lawson, a 37-year veteran carpenter who over the years has seen his share of cleaning snow off roofs, also recommended that the snow be dislodged.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=158504&zoneid=500
By Nok-Noi Ricker
Staff Writer Bangor Daily News
With warmer weather - possibly as high as 45 degrees - predicted for this weekend, snow removal experts are recommending that homeowners remove the snow that has accumulated on roofs.
The frozen blanket of snow is likely to begin to melt with the warmer temperatures, causing water damage, especially around windows.
"Do it now because if it warms up it’s going to start leaking," Archie Maloon, owner of Maloon Builders from Dover-Foxcroft, said Thursday. "If you wait for it to leak, it’s going to come into your house and it’s going to cause damage.
"You have to get the source of the water off the roof," he stressed.
When that moving water freezes at night, it can create ice dams, which can cause water backup and more leakage, said Maloon, who has 25 years of experience building homes and with snow and ice removal.
Once these ice dams form, the melted snow that pools up behind them can push up roof shingles and create leaks that enter homes and damage them, he said.
Brewer residents Carroll Ellingwood, who is a full-time self-employed snow remover during the winter, and Mark Lawson, a 37-year veteran carpenter who over the years has seen his share of cleaning snow off roofs, also recommended that the snow be dislodged.
http://bangornews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=158504&zoneid=500
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