Get a snow rake. Lowes and Home Despot should both have them. Working from ground level and swinging a twenty foot aluminum pole with a scraping head is much easier than anything involving ladders, shovels, sloped work surfaces, gravity, and frozen ground.
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Shoveling a roof can only end in tears for grown-ups.
ReplyDeleteAren't there entrepreneurial local youths with flexible joints and strong bones available?
Get a snow rake. Lowes and Home Despot should both have them. Working from ground level and swinging a twenty foot aluminum pole with a scraping head is much easier than anything involving ladders, shovels, sloped work surfaces, gravity, and frozen ground.
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Ice dams on the roof. No fun.
ReplyDeleteShovel the roof? And lose all that wonderful insulation?
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I was thinking more of the ice dams that are forming. I'm going to have to hack out a better path for the water to go away.
ReplyDeleteWell obviously be careful of falls, and of damaging the shingles. But mostly of falls. :)
DeleteIn a couple of days our roofs will be clear.
ReplyDeleteIt's what happens between then and now that frets me.
ReplyDeleteIt's what happens between then and now that frets me.
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