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Dealing With Snow On The Roof | Bedford NY Homes – Robert Paul’s blog
With snow piling up on my roof I am afraid it might do damage or worse yet cave in. What can I do?
Lisa – Ypsilanti, MII have talked to many people with the same concern this week. The fact is, snow along with ice could cause roof damage. The threat of collapse is a very low probability, but possible. As I stated in my February 10th, 2010 article “preventing Ice Dams”, sometimes snow can weigh up to 30 LB per square foot. On a 1500-square-foot house with a roof surface area of 1600 square feet, that’s 48,000 Lbs or more on your roof! Some roofs aren’t built to withstand that amount of weight. The weight of a large amount of snow and ice can also cause damage to your gutters and downspouts.
The damage mostly occurs when the snow melts and refreezes underneath snow where it meets the shingles. Snow melts due to the heat from the attic, then drains to the gutters and refreezes. Now the water and ice accumulates and works back up the roof growing underneath the shingles causing damage – and in many cases melts into the house.
Using a roof rake and getting it replaced or repaired by austin roofing will help you alleviate some of the stress on both you and your roof. A roof rake is a solid piece of metal or plastic about 16 to 20 inches wide on the end of an extension pole which allows you to “rake” or pull snow off the roof. They can be purchased at most of your local hardware stores. Remove as much snow as possible from the top of the roof down toward the gutters. About 10 to 15 feet should be sufficient. Never remove the snow while on top of the roof. For obvious reasons, it is a slippery slope and snow isn’t as soft as you think to land in.
Apply calcium chloride to all ice in gutters and down spouts. Do not use sodium chloride (rock salt), or table salt, it can cause damage to your landscape greenery. I’ve seen homeowners insert calcium chloride into panty hose and lay it inside the gutters, it was successful to remove the ice. To apply, I recommend tossing it up into the gutters, sounds funny but it really is the best way. Roofers In Boca Raton will do it professionally for you at fair pricing.
There is controversy over whether or not to use a ladder when removing the snow. I believe it is much safer not to use a ladder because when the ice and snow melts, it can accumulate on the rungs of the ladder and refreeze in minutes. This is definitely a slippery and hazardous situation. You can easily fall and get seriously hurt.
Lastly, if your home continually has a problem with ice damming, have a professional check your home for proper roof ventilation and insulation. You may consider having heat tape installed in those problem areas along your roof then you’d be able to melt the ice with a flick of a switch. Heat tape is a low temp electrical cord that is normally placed along the perimeter of the roof, in the roof valleys and in the gutters and downspouts to keep the water moving during the frigid winter months. It should be installed by a professional.
10 David Ogilvy Quotes that Could Revolutionize Your Blogging | Bedford Homes
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A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
David Ogilvy
David Ogilvy
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
David Ogilvy
Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
David Ogilvy
Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
David Ogilvy
Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
David Ogilvy
Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
David Ogilvy
Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won’t think you’re going gaga.
David Ogilvy
Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose… the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
David Ogilvy
Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
David Ogilvy
Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
David Ogilvy
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
David Ogilvy
Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product.
David Ogilvy
Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
David Ogilvy
I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.
David Ogilvy
I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
David Ogilvy
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
David Ogilvy
I don’t know the rules of grammar… If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
David Ogilvy
I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
David Ogilvy
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Bedford NY Weekly Real Estate Report | Robert Paul Realtor
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‘From Manhattan to North Salem’ | Douglas Elliman Expands to Westchester
Elliman moves into Westchester market | Bedford NY Real Estate
01/03/2011
From left: Elliman’s Dottie Herman, Holmes & Kennedy’s William Holmes and the Chappaqua officePrudential Douglas Elliman has made its first foray into Westchester County with the acquisition of the 135-agent firm Prudential Holmes & Kennedy.
A 40-year-old company, Holmes & Kennedy serves Westchester and Putnam Counties with six offices, located in Armonk, Bedford, Chappaqua, Katonah, Pleasantville and Somers. The new acquisition will bring Elliman’s total to more than 60 offices in New York City and Long Island, including the Hamptons.
Elliman CEO Dorothy Herman got her start on Long Island, (she purchased Manhattan’s Douglas Elliman with partner Howard Lorber for $71.75 million in 2003) and the sale marks Elliman’s first north of New York City.
Herman said the expansion made sense because the region’s demographics are similar to those of New York City. Indeed, Elliman and Holmes & Kennedy have been referring customers to each other for years, she said.
When Holmes & Kennedy CEO William Holmes approached her a month ago, “it was kind of a no-brainer,” Herman said. Holmes founded the company in 1968 and joined the Prudential network around five years ago, he said. The economic downturn has hit Westchester hard, he said, with home prices down about 30 percent from the peak and sales activity down 50 percent.
“Everyone’s working harder and making less money,” he said.
Holmes felt that joining forces with Elliman, which has some 3,800 agents, would help his agents gain an advantage over his competitors by giving them access to the larger company’s resources.
“Size makes a big difference,” he said, noting that it’s expensive for a small company to create and run a website, for example. In today’s difficult market, those costs matter more than ever.
“There’s an efficiency you have to have today that you didn’t have to have when prices were a lot higher,” said Holmes, who runs the company with his son Edward. “Costs are more critical than they used to be.”
Now that his agents are part of Elliman, it will be easier for them to get listings and customers moving from New York City to Westchester and Putnam counties, Holmes said.
“It helps a great deal to be part of a high-end network to get those listings,” he said, adding: “Our agents can make more money.”
Herman said the merger will help her agents as well, since many people move to Manhattan from Westchester, especially as more and more empty-nesters purchase homes in the city.
In recent months, Elliman also opened its first office in the Bronx, with the acquisition of the boutique Riverdale firm John Edwards Real Estate.
Other Manhattan firms have taken advantage of the downturn to expand into the suburbs. In 2009, Halstead Property purchased Connecticut-based brokerage Wheeler Real Estate.
And what of Elliman’s longtime slogan, “From Manhattan to Montauk?”
I’ll have to change that,” Herman said.