How do you keep a cat off your roof?
Duct-tape on all 4 paws...worked for me!
If snow quickly melted off my roof, does that mean my insulation is bad?
Yes,But what it means is that you have hot air from the house going thru the ceiling the insulation and thru the roof shingles or tiles to accelerate the ice and snow melting.It could mean you are missing a air barrier over your ceiling. If there is no air barrier similar to a plastic film any hot air will find a way to escape thru the insulation first and the roof.However as Mr Roger Ward has commented houses in Kentucky are very badly designed with many flaws. They are not built to be efficient thay are built to keep you warm regardless of the heat escape as this is costing you extra money from Decembre until April to heat the house to be confortable.You have being heating not just the house but also outside the roof. There could be very likely a 30–40% loss of heat escaping thru the roof.USA has many house efficiency contractors for $200 and up that will come to your house and blow high pressure air into the house with color smoke to view where your house is escaping. These test are simple and the lowest is qualified.Before you spend any money on the roof have a complete house air flow leak with a blower door analysis as this will indicate the ( % ? ) of heat loss from the roof.Take your time to decide about insulating the house as now the temperature will be warmer until october. However, you will also find where the house is leaking air and this may have a significant effect on the cost for the air conditioning season.I have attached several contractors with Videos that have the equipment and the knowleage to perform the house leak test applying a excessive pressure inside the house to confirm where your losses are. As said there are all more or less equal in technology as most likely they have a state permit or license to perform this type of house pressure leak test.Bonne journee MadameHere are the videos explaining the losses.Reed's Sprayfoam InsulationBlower Door TestingWhen You Need Blower Door and Duct Leakage Testing - GDS AssociatesDuct Leakage Testinghttps://bcapcodes.org/wp-content...http://dhbc.ky.gov/hvac/Document...Blower Door Tests in Greater Cincinnati & Northern Kentucky
What clever method can you use to quickly remove snow from a roof?
The most commonly touted “alternative” to roof snow removal is heat cables. People with extra money to throw away sometimes use heat cables to try and prevent snow from piling up on their roofs (primarily on the overhangs and in the valleys). The trouble is that an array of hot cables typically isn’t enough to mitigate the effects of Mother Nature in the wintertime—or to do much more than melt little grooves in the snow after a major snowstorm. Very few people have long-term success with heat cables; if you’re one of them, consider yourself part of a lucky minority.Heat cables are also prohibitively expensive to install and run. Because heat cables are a relatively specialized product, the installation costs alone are significant.In addition, heat cables run on what’s called a dead-short circuit—meaning that the “positive” and “negative” wires are in constant contact with each other. As a result, the cables use a ton of electricity, and they frequently fail by shorting out.Even if you can afford heat cables, you’re taking a gamble that they’ll actually keep your roof snow-free enough to prevent ice dams and leaking. We’ve removed countless ice dams entangled with hundreds of feet of heat cable—which was either broken, or which was working correctly but simply not preventing ice dams or keeping snow from piling up.The better way is to hire professional Roofing Contractors Flower Mound Tx to get the job done for you.
How can I stop a cat from sleeping on my car roof?
Easy, keep your cat inside where he will be safe!
How do you deal with birds nests on your roof?
Bird nests are only really made for the eggs to be warmed by the mother bird. Very carefully, look into the nest and see if there are eggs in it. If there are, please leave it alone. Though the rumor that a mother will not care for its eggs/chicks if it has the scent of a human on it has little basis, it may confuse the mother and could disturb the eggs, hurting the chicks or cracking the egg. Don’t worry! The nest will be vacated soon enough. Once you are absolutely sure there are no chicks or eggs in the nest, you can do whatever you want with it.
How to deal with retainers and saliva?
I have a wire retainer for my top teeth and a plastic retainer for my bottom teeth. I just got them today and they are unbelievably annoying--especially the wire one on the top. There's a ton of saliva that keeps getting trapped between the plastic palette part and the roof of my mouth. It's really uncomfortable, plus it causes a bunch of gunk buildups on the retainer. Is there anything I can do about this? I don't want to keep slurping at it because its really uncomfortable, tastes terrible and sounds worse. Thanks in advance for advice!
Which kind of roofing is best for your house?
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Can a fake rubber snake keep birds away from your roof?
Fake snakes deter fake birds.This is a real bird sitting on top of a fake owl.
A hurricane tore holes in the roof of your house, allowing a good deal of moisture inside. Very quickly, mold?
A hurricane tore holes in the roof of your house, allowing a good deal of moisture inside. Very quickly, mold began to grow because of it. What would be the most effective and ecologically friendly way of killing the mold and why? Since mold is one of the immobile protists, releasing heterotrophic protists to act as predators would kill it. Since mold is an autotrophic protist, depriving it of light would keep it from photosynthesizing, and it would die. Since protists need moist environments in order to grow well, drying out the area would kill the mold. Since protists need to move their flagella to gather food, spraying red tide toxins on the mold would paralyze and kill it.