Well, the roofs here are not made for snow and ice---we learned that the hard way. We had an ice dam that built up above our gutter outside our kitchen sliding door. Since there was ice build up, the snow on the roof above that started melting had no where to go but under the shingles and into our attic soffits. The soffits had icicles coming from them. I noticed this over the weekend, but didn't think much about it. From there, the water went down our dry wall in the kitchen on both sides of our sliding door and made it's way in the door frame and then to the floor. Sunday night around 1030 PM when I was going to bed, I went to turn off the tree and heard dripping. I turned on light and saw a puddle on the floor behind the Christmas tree. I had to wake up John (who was sound asleep and exhausted since he had been traveling home from Africa for 30 hours Saturday and Sunday and was on a different time change). We moved the tree and the rug from the door and the wood floor was saturated with water--like sloshing when we stepped on boards. I left to buy some fans from Wal-Mart around midnight (which they didn't have some I bought some small space heaters with fans). John worked on getting the floor mopped up. Monday morning, we noticed there was water coming in under the door from the other side. I think this was going on a few days while the snow was melting, but this water we never noticed or heard dripping since it wasn't coming down the trim of the sliding door. It was traveling in the wall to the edge of the door and then traveling the seams of the floor.
What a mess...
Icicles from roof outside the back of the kitchen
The soffit at the top of the picture has icicles
The broom is holding a towel up to catch the water coming in
Both soffits have icicles
Ice dam
We hired a roofer to come and chop the ice off so the water will go to the gutter when it melts. Here is a picture he took before he took a hammer to our roof showing the ice dam.
Better picture of the soffit
I put a paper towel under the sliding door and it was coming back wet...not a good feeling
Water stained boards
The boards are cupper now. Hard to see in this picture.
This board has already popped up.
Monday morning while showing my neighbor who was dropping off another fan where the water was coming it I went to the other side of the sliding door since we had the broom set up and I saw this...
it is coming from under the corner of the sliding door.
Stained boards
Stained boards. I have a bunch of pictures of many, many stained boards.
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