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Experts share how to prevent your pipes from freezing this winter ahead of freezing temps and holiday travel plans, as well as what to do to thaw frozen pipes.
An ice dam is an ice build-up on the eaves of sloped roofs of heated buildings that results from melting snow under a snow pack reaching the eave and freezing there. Freezing at the eave impedes the drainage of meltwater, which adds to the ice dam and causes backup of the meltwater, which may cause water leakage into the roof and consequent ...
In the cold winter, a natural light shelf is created when there is snow on the ground which makes it reflective. Low winter sun (see Sun path) reflects off the snow and increases solar gain through equator-facing glass by one- to two-thirds which brightly lights the ceiling of these rooms. Glare control (drapes) may be required.
Three-pipe Snow Fence System Snow Guards in Jackson, WY, USA Standing seam metal roof with Snow guards to keep snow from sliding off the roof too quickly. A snow guard is a device used to retain snow and ice from falling from one surface to a lower one; in contemporary usage, they are installed to prevent snow/ice pack from avalanching and damaging people, plants, and property below.
Skylights should be covered and well-insulated to reduce natural convection ( warm air rising ) heat loss on cold winter nights, and intense solar heat gain during hot spring/summer/fall days. The equator-facing side of a building is south in the northern hemisphere, and north in the southern hemisphere.
“The more salt, the more the freezing point is lowered,” Julienne Stroeve, senior scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado, tells Popular Mechanics.
In the summer, a window screen would be installed on the exterior over the double-hung window to keep out animals and insects. In the winter, the screen was removed and replaced with a storm window, which created a two-layer separation between the interior and exterior spaces, increasing window insulation in cold winter months. To permit ...
A winter storm that brought a slushy rain-snow mix to central Illinois has moved on out, but another system is on the way and expected to bring more snow and frigid temperatures for the weekend.