Snow load on roofs.

There have been a few roofs fall in around here from the snow and ice that are over loading them.

I got one that is loaded pretty heavy.

Same building back in 79 was loaded also.

That year I took 4 space heaters and heated the machine shed for about 30 minutes and all slid off.

This year there is a 20x14 foot door that is froze open and I don't know if I can get it warm enough in there to slide it off.

Might still try the heater thing.

It's a 42x75 foot building with 14' eaves.

Gary

Gerald J.

From what I've seen, most of the comanies spec out jobs the same so the cost estimates are close.

Any of these companies will build a better building as long as you are willing to pay for it.

If someone wants a building - the last word is up to them - the payer - not the builder.

I thought maybe it would go off on Monday when we got that rain.

Did you hear about the building in South English?

Gary

But it is settled and piled in drifts.

We have had about 24 inches since the last thaw.

It's 12" inches deep everywhere and a lot of 4 foot drifts in the middle of fields.

And some 10 foot drifts in the road ways.

Some one lane roads around here cause there is nowhere to go with the snow without blowers. The county is doing some blowing also to get it oopened up.

Gary

Allan

We have a huge morton building used for a riding arena with an attached barn on one side, not heated, and there is just not enough pitch for the snow to slide off, it just creeps all winter until it's warm enough, the ice just hangs off to the ground, it's always a mess, not sure what they were thinking when it was built. The extension of the roof over that barn is too flat, at least the trusses are real heavy duty. I'm glad I don't have to deal with winter and freeing up the doors over there anymore, I had to use an old bosch electric chipping hammer to break up ice and frost around doors to keep them working, almost every day, makes short work of breaking ice and frosted ground.

And yes the purlens are bowed down about 1 inch between the rafters. It is also a Morton Building and no Morton building has ever gone down in this area.

The door is in about 6 inches of ice.

Pacemaker is the one that went down big time in 79.

One that went yesterday use to house a JD dealer in South English.

I guess it was used to store cars, boats and RVs now.

Gary

An electric chipping hammer would take care of that ice no problem, I've taken out 3 feet in the spring when I needed to get an outside stall door open to a paddock tha that is under an eave, get a hole started, then keep chipping away at a face, just like rock or concrete, it will break nicely, get that heat going inside, and that weather, sounds like you could turn that around easily, and relax knowing it's done, that'd cause me to toss and turn worrying about it. 2 feet is a fair amount, depends on what it was built for, if you've exceeded that, I'd be dealing with it asap.