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Hand shoveling Snow off a roof.

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Video by Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

Stanley "Dirt Monkey" Genadek

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This project details the process of removing heavy snow and hazardous ice dams from a house roof and surrounding areas to prevent structural damage and water ingress. The process involves using specialized tools like snow rakes and shovels, and emphasizes safety and proper techniques for effective winter maintenance.

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all right let's go see how Frankie's doing we're in the bedroom here walk out to the wall of snow Frankie you said that the roofs have been collapsing around here I mean a lot of like tent garages all kind of going down nobody cleaning the snow and stuff the ice off of the tent graduate yeah they're going down but you were saying the hood of the car pop oh yeah yeah the vehicle wise yeah if you put nothing off your vehicle you know they they're already yeah sinking sinking the the hoods are dented in the little red one popped and I took the snow off of that yeah so we're gonna take the snow off the roof there and then it's got to be taken off from the deck eventually lots of lots of work so the snow's gotten me work but I don't want it to get me work in my own house look how heavy that is all gotta come on that's a lot of weight if you guys get water coming in underneath your eaves what happens is the heat escapes out of the roof melts this Zone here the water runs down the heat's not escaping there so that freezes it creates an ice dam right there so get a nice Dam from here to here water's not going to leak all the way down that gets super heavy the eaves of the houses can even bust off but then the Water migrates Works its way underneath and backs its way up and will drip that's how you get that freezing to cure that you got to keep your eaves clear ching Frankie's a professional snow removal contractor don't attempt this at home foreign try not to fall right there because that's where the tank is I know and that'll hurt yeah there's your window foreign thank you okay foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] she will still pop right out you want me to give her a pull are you like wait let me get up on top first okay because it's always smart to have a big chunk of ice come down directly at your face if you're gonna do it do it the right way do it the Polish way you know you could probably just come down this way just [Applause] they're still icy oh you cannot yeah it won't take long and that'll that'll be if nothing was gonna melt off yeah 30. 30 degrees will do it on the bottoms you know the ice was that thick yeah that's a lot of weight [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music]

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