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re: Wet or Dry Snow Tuesday? Structural roof issues
Posted on 1/20/25 at 8:12 am to Weekend Warrior79
Posted on 1/20/25 at 8:12 am to Weekend Warrior79
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We like to build them in a way that forces our insurance companies to have to pay to replace them every so many major weather events. We then like to bitch about why our insurance companies put so much effort into investigating/questioning if they should replace them; and we they ultimately do we will then bitch about the rising costs of insurance
This! And the slimy arse roofing contractors. How many times has Moscona and Theriot's roofing company changed names now? First it was Hudco. Then Parish, now pelican?
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Posted on 1/20/25 at 8:14 am to Catchfalaya
You need to get up on the roof and clear the snow off before it gets that high. Be careful up there tho, its slippery.
Posted on 1/20/25 at 10:35 am to SWLA92
20psf is the minimum live load and since you shouldn't be walking on your roof while it's snowing your roof will be fine from snow. The limb hanging over your house might be a different story.
Posted on 1/20/25 at 10:37 am to Coomdaddy
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How do you all build your roofs down there? Can’t take a little snow?
We have this thing called wind. When your house is exposed to hurricane force winds your roof will go into uplift so that's what we design for. Assuming you have properly installed hurricane clips.
Posted on 1/20/25 at 10:38 am to SWLA92
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carports
While I overbuilt the every living piss out of my carport... I did not build it to hold 30,000 lbs.
God DAMNIT.
I swear the next one is going to be out of a super alloy made of adamantium and mythril.
Posted on 1/20/25 at 10:40 am to Coomdaddy
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How do you all build your roofs down there? Can’t take a little snow?
I built the damned carport to not fly away in a hurricane. I did not build it to support a dump truck driving on it.
Posted on 1/20/25 at 10:46 am to Earnest_P
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Are heat pumps pretty popular in Louisiana and the lower Southern states?
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Yes, and in my experience, they’re at their worst when you need them most.
Love my high efficiency units in the summer but every few years we get cold weather like this and those heat pumps will run 24/7 and barely keep the house at 67.
I might shut off the one feeding the mian portions of thewhouse and just keep the fire going in the living room.
Posted on 1/20/25 at 10:51 am to SippyCup
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get cold weather like this and those heat pumps will run 24/7 and barely keep the house at 67.
Yep. Mine would be pumping out “heated” air at about 68 when on auxiliary mode. I put in a propane furnace and the difference is night and day.
Posted on 1/20/25 at 11:44 am to Catchfalaya
This is getting me curious about gas station canopies. I wonder if there is a big design difference down here vs up north. That's a flat roof supported on centralized columns only.
Posted on 1/20/25 at 2:12 pm to Spankum
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You'll want to pull the snow off if you get a lot as you will likely get ice dams on the eaves which cause massive leaks due to water pooling. I'm assuming houses down there are not designed to mitigate them
I dealt with the last time we got snow….massive roof leaks is an understatement!
This shows why ice dams form and why they cause leaks.
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