I generally get out and use the thing right away, so no frozen packed snow. Haven't had to deal with a heavy ice coating on top of snow. That's pretty rare here; probably something about the way the Great Lakes affect the weather.
Cindy Hamilton
We grew up in northern Wisconsin. It was not uncommon to have to toss a shovel of snow over a 4 foot bank on the side of driveway or sidewalk, after the first couple snows. Your shovel technique is fine for a light snow but worthless for a real storm.
We had a heavy, wet one yesterday and I brought out the snow thrower around sunset rather than wait for today. Good thing as all is ice today. I pointed out elsewhere that a track drive might move the snow thrower but the blades would have a problem maybe even break or bend if shear bolts do not fail.
I read it did snow here in 1977.
My son runs the hockey programs at an ice rink. After running the Zamboni some ice shavings have to be cleared when it dumps. If they need a new snow shovel it has to be mail ordered as stores here never have them.
I just shovelledanother 2 inches this morning. The 6 feet between my drive and the neighbours is over 4 feet deep. NOTHING compared to what we have had in the past. Up to now it's been a pretty light winter here. 30 miles east, west, or north has significantly more. We are in some sort of "shafow" for lake effect snow the last number of years
Interesting too how Baltimore got 1 1/2 inches of rain and Lowell got
17 inches of snow, eh? What a difference 30 miles can make.
We had a two car garage but only one car, so we still had room.
In Baltimore and maybe many other places, they didn't even have garages for many expensive houses into the 70's, just carports.
But since then, for houses of almost all prices, they build a lot of two-car garages with 2 single doors and a post in the middle.
So for the whole time you live ther, you have to have the empty part of your garage in just the right place, and you risk hitting the door frame every time you go in or out.
How much more would it cost to make the lintel stronger and put in one double-wide garage door?
When I lived in snow country, (Montana, Nebraska, Kansas), I had the same requirement to CLEAR the sidewalk in front of my house. Those were city ordinances and they didn't say we should clear a path; they simply said clear the sidewalk. Like someone mentioned earlier, it could well be for wheelchair access.
I had a 4WD pickup when I lived in snow country so I never cleared my driveway. Never had an issue as a result. I just used the pickup to pack the snow down.
I never had regular mail delivery to the house but I happened to be looking out the window one winter day and noticed the Mormon guys skipping past my house. I guess I lost out that day.
If you need a specific behavior, just make it a business requirement. You may have to pay a little extra.
Dunno now but the steel beam I put over an 18' door (8deep X 34lb/ft) in 1978 cost about $400. Two beams for 8' doors (8"x17lb) would have been a quarter of that. The difference between one 18' door and two 8' doors ate intro that difference quite a bit. That was a drop flange beam, carrying the joists for a 2d floor and a brick veneer.
Landscapers here are generally latino and they wear long pants and long sleeve shirts. They understand keeping the sun off of you is better than taking your shirt off. I guess living at real low latitudes makes you smarter about the heat.
Bah. I've got an old garage with two doors. It's made of concrete block. Just pay some attention to what you're doing when you pull in or out.
If you're building 1 garage, the cost of a stronger lintel is in the noise. If you're building 1000 garages, now you're starting to talk real money.
Cindy Hamilton
That does not seem to be too much difference in price. Once you figure in you need 2 openers for the doors instead of 1. Then at some point later the openers will have to be replaced. Around $ 200 each if you do it yourself. If putting in 2 doors you do have to figuer in the extra cost of that post down the middle between the doors. Maybe extra labor to install 2 doors instead of one.
It might be more convient to have one large door if you have a riding mower or other things in the garage you want to get out.That can be stored between the 2 cars and driven or pulled out, where with the 2 doors you would have to take one car out first.
That's the important part... We went to the lumber yard to pick up supplies for a project. A '57 Chevy wasn't exactly a pickup so the longer pieces were stick out the passenger window with the other end on the rear window shelf, standard procedure.
We were talking about something when my father drove into the garage as usual. I wasn't hurt by the studs launching out the rear window but I was scared that somehow it would be all my fault.
The insurance company declined to pay out.
Same with the difference between a 7 foot and an 8 foot door. My first house was cursed with a 7X7. No problem for a '28 Chevy od '72 Firenza - but a significant issue for a Ramcharger or a Pacer.
I'd much rather be cold than hot. With cold you can put on more clothes. There's an absolute limit to how much you can take off.
A friend of mine who did something in the construction or the design area told me he was volunteering for Habitat for Humanity that was rehabbing some houses on the west side of Baltimore. He wanted to help but he also said he might make contacts and find work too.
So I said I wanted to volunteer too, and we met there and were assigned to the same house (I think they were doing more than one, I forget), and we were indoors ripping out old plumbing etc., nothing skilled, and I lasted until about noon, and it was hot, and I was indoors, and I took my shirt off. And soon after he called me aside and said it didn't look good. He said it was "unproffessional". I said, "I'm not a professional."
He thought because he'd brought me, I was making him look bad. So I left.
The sub tropics are not for snowflakes you might melt ;) I am actually pretty used to it but you are actually better off with a cotton shirt than not wearing one if you are in the sun. You might sweat through it but then it becomes a cooler. Being hot in the shade or inside might be helped by taking off clothes but not outside in the sun.
Never spent much time at 10 below did you? Everything becomes a major project and if you f*ck up you die.
I think I prefer laying by the pool when it is 90 and if I get hot, I jump in for a few minutes. Problem solved. My pipes won't freeze and my car starts. I don't need snow tires and I don't have to shovel it.
eVERYONE Says that but it's not my experience, even in the sun.
Have you been in the sun that much? I am not talking about low on the horizon sun, I mean where it is not tempered as much by the atmosphere. I tend to trust people who live below the tropic of cancer about working in the sun more than people closer to the arctic circle. You seldom if ever see a Mexican or Guatemalan with his shirt off if he is working. They must know something.
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