Brown Slush Muck on Chimney - Bad news?
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ansehnlich1
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I had some stuff hangin' off mine, kinda looked like one of them old root beer slushies, ummmm hmmmm,
I ran my stove pretty hot this morning and the chimney cap is clear of that frozen gunk now!
I ran my stove pretty hot this morning and the chimney cap is clear of that frozen gunk now!
BucksCounty
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Backwoods Savage
Minister of Fire
Doesn't look like anything to be concerned with.
Steep roof there so snow won't pile up. Did you get much there?
Steep roof there so snow won't pile up. Did you get much there?
Backwoods Savage said:
Over 2 feet, reports between 25 and 29 inches. Some places nearby 36 inches. I had over 4 feet of drift at the end of my driveway. Thank God I left my fence gate near the garage open. It created a winddrift that cleared about 3-4 feet wide right in front of the garage. I just had to clear some tire tracks for the jeep and hit the gas hard to plow through it. I learned that trick was working with all the fence gates. So I opened up every one i had, and it worked pretty well throught he second half of the storm.
The back side of the roof was holding some serious snow, especially above the dormer windows. The roofer who replaced the slate on the back of the house (about a year ago) apparently did a bad job with the snowguards, putting one right on the edge of a slate, right next to a dormer. The snow and ice must have come down so fast that it bend the snowguard, popping up the slate... unfortunately only one half of it... snapped right down the middle. Ugh. I'll have to have the guy come back to fix it, and see if I can teach him something about installing snowguards. I would have been better off with none (assuming there wasn't anyone below to get killed when the ice fell off anyway).
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