Winter in Michigan

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 04:35:26 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Got a hole in the roof?

Long skinny one called a ridge vent:-))

Man, I've had a little snow come in our ridge vent, but never anything like
that.

Musta been a heckuva storm.

As much as I'd like to play up the huge storm story... :-))... We
didn't have drifts that deep outside. There is a valley that funnels
the snow into the ridge vent when the wind is from either the North or
East, but it's a very narrow range for either. Outside those narrow
angles I don't get snow blown in, but man when the wind is just right
it collects the snow from about a third of the roof and dumps it
straight down from the vent.

They are going to try and plug it with something like the mesh that is
used in commercial ridge vents. Unfortunately the roof is "barn metal"
with the irregular shape which makes it difficult to seal against.
They may have to put down plates (metal strips) to give a flat surface
for a commercial vent to work against. Then seal the low spots with
expandable foam. It'd probably only take 5 or 6 cans.

There is one hanger for sale out there, but the sucker is big enough
the house a Gulf Stream. I guess I could get it and rent out spaces,
but it's one big hanger and it does have heat. Unfortunately that'd be
like trying to heat all of Lower Michigan. OTOH I might be able to
rent out enough space to make the payments. :-))

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com