When you get your house to Charleston, the local termites will throw a party to celebrate the arrival. Hmm tastey Yankee building materials all softened up by ice dams! Kinda like an iced-lumber julep. -jc On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 04:17 PM, Mike Devonshire wrote: > In a message dated 2/26/2003 4:33:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, > [log in to unmask] writes: > >> My mother has this valley problem at the corner of the unheated >> garage in an area where you have to walk next to the massive icicle >> to get into the house... sometimes 6' in length and massive like >> Ralph's leg. We have tried all sorts of things over the years and I'm >> hoping the last one will be her >> selling the house during the summer. > > Ken- > > At the Arctic house with which you are familiar, I recently had an > icecicle which extended from the SW corner eave to the ground, > eventually approximately > 20" in diameter, which encased the rear quarter of the "upstate car", > so that it could not be moved. Only judicious use of an axe and > several other implements of war freed the car and allowed access to > the nearby cellar hatch. I managed to take a nice piece of beaded > 1790's corner trim out with the axe which will require four hours of > dutchman time in the Spring. > > The real solution to ice damming and related freeze conditions is, I > feel, to move to Savannah or Charleston(ok, maybe Beaufort, but they > never pronounce it correctly). > > V.I. > > -- > To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the > uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: > <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html> > -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>