Building a House with Wood

[Harvey]

He used a 1/2" decorative gravel. But you can use anything around that size that you like the looks of.

Some guy on YouTube said use at least 1 1/4" so you could hit it with a leaf blower and the stone would stay put.

 

[Ripitz]

I use local 3/4 washed.

 

[Sick Bird Rider]

Are they fairly foolproof? Like they always prevent a big slide?

How do I figure out the likelyhood of total snowfall exceeding the roof's capacity for weight?

You don't need to figure that out, the person who designed your roof truss system should have already done that. Telemark Dave's job is designing and engineering roof truss systems, he explained to me once that if your house is built to code (in our region at least), it will hold WAY more snow than you'd ever get. In our area, the code specifies a 10 foot column of snow per square foot. He also told me a metal roof spreads the load out more evenly, so adds to the strength.

We have a metal roof but no snow stoppers. I think I'd rather deal with the roofalanches than worry about snow piling up. Of course, it depends on where the snow will land. In our case, the slides all land at the side of the house, and don't get in the way of anything. A snow pile in front of your garage door, for example, would be a real drag.

 

[tirolski]

It there were gutters this year, they'd be on the ground.

I suffered some roof damage on the lower roof. Need to add snow stoppers (what are they called?) to the upper roof.

Roof damage...?
Avalanche from the upper roof to the lower roof?
Was it due to:
Ice?
Snow?

Log blown down from a tree?

 

[Harvey]

Avalanche from the upper roof to the lower roof?

This was an exceptional year. Two months of cold left a lot of snow on top, and then the rain made it very heavy.

When the upper roof avy'd on to the lower, it shook the entire building. Like two weeks after it happened the crew was still talking about it.

The odd thing was that even though it was a huge slab that slid, it only damaged one spot. I think that ice formed (forms) around the woodstove chimney (the only place where heat really escapes the house) and that one spot took much of the force of impact.

I'm going to try the snow stoppers. I don't see much choice.

I like the 10x safety factor on the roof. Hope that's our code too.

 

[tirolski]

This was an exceptional year. Two months of cold left a lot of snow on top, and then the rain made it very heavy.

When the upper roof avy'd on to the lower, it shook the entire building. Like two weeks after it happened the crew was still talking about it.

The odd thing was that even though it was a huge slab that slid, it only damaged one spot. I think that ice formed (forms) around the woodstove chimney (the only place where heat really escapes the house) and that one spot took much of the force of impact.

I'm going to try the snow stoppers. I don't see much choice.

I like the 10x safety factor on the roof. Hope that's our code too.

Lots of roofs took hits in the Tug this winter.
Hopefully yer builder/architect/engineer figured out why and can do some CAPA .
Stay safe.

 

[Cork]

This was an exceptional year. Two months of cold left a lot of snow on top, and then the rain made it very heavy.

When the upper roof avy'd on to the lower, it shook the entire building. Like two weeks after it happened the crew was still talking about it.

The odd thing was that even though it was a huge slab that slid, it only damaged one spot. I think that ice formed (forms) around the woodstove chimney (the only place where heat really escapes the house) and that one spot took much of the force of impact.

I'm going to try the snow stoppers. I don't see much choice.

I like the 10x safety factor on the roof. Hope that's our code too.

I had a new metal installed a few years ago, and previously the metal roof on my back porch (which receives the snow from the house roof as it slides off from above) was rusty and would hold rthe snow and I would have to use a roof rake at times, as the snow would hold onto the rust. Well the new metal on the roofs is much slicker than before and the first winter I couldn't keep up with the clearing of the snow on the ground below the back porch roof, as it was too packed and heavy to move. So, I had 3 rows of snow stoppers installed on the back porch roof, and waa-laa no more issues
And, I also had laid down #2 stone at the along the back wall of the porch to deal with the splash from dripping.
Tell Andy to get on it!

 

[Harvey]

snow stoppers

Did you use the "snow rails" or the individual "snow birds?"

 

[Endoftheline]

This was an exceptional year. Two months of cold left a lot of snow on top, and then the rain made it very heavy.

When the upper roof avy'd on to the lower, it shook the entire building. Like two weeks after it happened the crew was still talking about it.

The odd thing was that even though it was a huge slab that slid, it only damaged one spot. I think that ice formed (forms) around the woodstove chimney (the only place where heat really escapes the house) and that one spot took much of the force of impact.

I'm going to try the snow stoppers. I don't see much choice.

I like the 10x safety factor on the roof. Hope that's our code too.

It was, unfortunately, an exceptional year for us skiers. If you put on the snow guards you will jinx us for the next decade.

 

[Cork]

Did you use the "snow rails" or the individual "snow birds?"

individuals