[Magdalen] Morning, afternoon.

[Kate Conant]

Up to 23F now!

I'm glad we've had so little snow this year.

"What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice, love mercy, and walk
humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> > Flat roofs in snow zones are asking for trouble.
>
>
> The many two-, three-, and six-flat apartment buildings like our six-flat
> here in Chicago (really a double three-flat) have nearly flat but gently
> sloping roofs. We've had terrible problems with leakage in our top-floor
> apartment, confined to one end (where they constructed an enclosed room
> rather than a balcony). But so far this winter, no such leakage. Either
> they did some work on it and didn't tell us somehow, or conditions so far
> have been better than previously (no ice dams yet). When they rebuilt the
> back stairway and the enclosed rooms a couple of years ago, they roofed
> over a roof-access hatch that would have made it possible to go up and rake
> snow off (unless the hatch were frozen shut) or throw some nylons filled
> with ice melter to create drainage channels in an ice dam.
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>