In article , Iain Churches
wrote:

"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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I should also be 'grumpy' at this point. We had water coming through a
ceiling on Monday due to snow melt getting in via a flat roof.
Currently looking out at occasional showers of rain/snow/sleet and
seeing if the large tub behind one speaker is going to get any more
contents...

Had some plastic sheeting tacked over the roof as a temporary measure
this morning, so keep yer fingers crossed that it helps!

Fingers tightly crossed, Jim. We know all about melting snow here. The
very few houses (built in the sixties) that had flat roofs have all been
converted to sloping (22 degrees from the centre)

I don't know the quantity of snow on your roof. Fresh snow here has very
little moisture, and is too powdery to make snowballs, but as it nears
melting point, its weights increases dramatically. This too can be a
problem.

The problem certainly manifested its symptom (leak in via the ceiling -
just 1ft behind an ESL63!) when the snow we'd had melted. However this is
due to the 'melt' being trapped as is gradually emerges from the snow, plus
the rain we were getting that was helping to melt the snow...

However (fingers crossed) the symptom has not re-presented since then, so
am awaiting the 'quote' from the roofing firm...

I used to climb on the roof each summer and check, but in the last 5 years
or so I've not been well enough, and checking this got forgotten.

Slainte,

Jim

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