Bad luck

[apandori]

Good thing we have an oil furnace back up for the pellet stove. Yesterday a big chunk of ice fell off the roof and hit the vent on the outside of the house and wrecked my vent pipe. On the interior it pulled m elbow out. I'm just glad the house didn't start on fire. Going to have to build a cover for the vent pipe next year looks like.

 

[GeHmTS]

Other than the damage, is everyone ok?

 

[apandori]

Yeah. We weren't home when it happened, luckily the cats didn't get killed from CO gas.

 

[GeHmTS]

We're coming out of winter so you should be able to start work on it soon!

 

[SidecarFlip]

luckily the cats didn't get killed from CO gas

Thats a personal opinion......

 

[GeHmTS]

I forgot cats have nine lives. It may have use one of them during the event.

 

[bogieb]

Glad everyone and everything is okay!

I worry about one of my vents as it sticks out almost 2 feet (the other one is only about 1'). My eaves are 3 feet wide, but with the sliding snow, you never know if it will curl back under. Hoping to do a little reconfiguration this summer and shorten that one up a bit as well as give it more vertical rise.

 

[Ambient]

Glad everyone and everything is okay!

I worry about one of my vents as it sticks out almost 2 feet (the other one is only about 1'). My eaves are 3 feet wide, but with the sliding snow, you never know if it will curl back under. Hoping to do a little reconfiguration this summer and shorten that one up a bit as well as give it more vertical rise.

I'm going to install snow guard molding on the metal roof. That 11/12 pitch will hold snow only so long. When it comes down from two stories up, it does so with a thunderous noise, it would easily take off the new vent pipe.

 

[vinny11950]

Wow, sorry to hear it. Glad no one was hurt.

 

[TonyVideo]

I have the same worry as my roofline is 30ft up. I will check where the ice is dropping as it has busted window plastic covers in my basement. Thanks for the heads up.