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Introduction and Problem Assessment

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Hand shoveling Snow off a roof.

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What happens here

The video begins with the presenter, Stanley, walking out of a house into a snow-covered landscape. He briefly discusses the general problem of heavy snow causing roofs and tent garages to collapse. He then shows his friend Frankie starting to clear a snow pile near the house with a red snow shovel and setting up a tall A-frame ladder against the house's side. Stanley then explains the phenomenon of ice dams: how heat escaping the roof melts snow, which then refreezes at the colder eaves, creating a dam that causes water to back up under the roofing and potentially into the house.

Goal: Understand the need for snow removal and the risk of ice dams.

Tools and materials

  • A-Frame Ladder — Accessing the roof to clear snow
  • Red Snow Shovel — Initial clearing of snow piles on the ground

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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

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