Post a picture... any picture

Someone posted at AK that he was having trouble getting an old Magnavox console tube FM tuner to work right. He posted a photo, as well, to see if it could help anyone figure out what his problem might be.

Natural selection is not a pretty thing.

Dang! You're good.
I totally missed that.

Actually, I am not sure I even have any blue clip leads. Hmmm.
I wonder if they're like blue m&ms?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/10/09/magazine/blue-food-coloring-mars-company.html

May you all have someone in your lives to warm your heart today.

Or toobs lol

The first ones are water coming into the garage.... The other is in the basement. Thankfully semi unfinished. Builder is coming over today to take a look. If they deem it not a building issue then a call to my insurance I think.

The garage is at ground level and basement is obviously below. Right now the ground is frozen and covered in about 3 ft of snow and ice. This morning there was no more drops in the bucket. Interesting but not conclusive.

My great-nephews last year halloween costumes. Classic....LOL

Ok so it's ice damming bought the roof scraper and I'll get up there and melt some ice.

Ice dams may well mean one (or both) of these things.

Too much heat in the attic.
Not enough roof overhang beyond the wall.

The first one is pretty easy to remediate: Soffit and ridge vents to pull cold air through the attic; good insulation between the living space & attic.

There are also multiple ways to improve the "water resistance" of the roof (i.e., installation of a water/ice barrier under the shingles, or metal roofing material instead of shingles at the overhangs) -- but these do treat the symptom, not the disease.

We had ice dam issues once at the MA house (fairly minor, fortunately). I talked about doing roof work with a hifi buddy who's a woodworker/contractor and he said rather brusquely - "that doesn't fix the problem. Do you have a pull-down stair for your attic?"

"Yes"

"Is it insulated?"

"No"

"Then you have a 2 x 3 foot [or more!] window from your heated house to the sky. You need to fix things like that first!"

To cut a long story short (MA had a state-funded program to do stuff like this, which was a terrific thing for us), we had some work done in the attic to improve insulation. One of the remediations: they built a cover for the pull-down out of foam boards. Well done and easily removed (from below) for attic access from the pull down (a couple of velcro straps that can be pulled down tight through a couple of metal loops).

We never had any more trouble after improving attic insulation.

Just though I'd mention this.

EDIT: If the pull-down thing is an issue for the OP, you can make a cover like the one I described, or just buy something like this.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Owens-Corning-25-1-2-in-x-54-in-Attic-Stair-Insulator-II-AS2/100676399?cm_mmc=Shopping|THD|G|0|G-BASE-PLA-D22-Insulation|&gclid=CjwKEAiAlZDFBRCKncm67qihiHwSJABtoNIgVndcr2eP2a5xJgiEsEKJ46XdChcvE9qeVW1rgb2vahoCFIzw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

I put one of those in this house -- the pull-down here is insulated, but up here in the frozen white north, you cannot have too much insulation

Good point Mark, ice dams are certainly a possibility also. Have many here in Chicago who suffer that fate as well.

Usually poor ventilation in your attic is one of the root causes. You should have vents cut out in your overhangs on the roof. Make sure the insulation in the attic isn't covering those vents too.

Another, though you can't see now but in the spring take a look, is the backing of the gutter warps and if the shingles on the roof or tar paper doesn't go all the way into that gutter water will run behind it....soak the wood, get in the walls and create ice dams. Weather warms up, ice dams melt, and bingo.

As noted, remember water always takes the path of least resistance. So when dealing with water around foundations, specifically basements, you have to make sure the water flows away from the house and not build up.

All foundations crack over time, some will leak, some won't, depends on how well the drainage and landscape is situated. If it's a fairly new house still under builders warranty, I'd be screaming up and down. If it's an older house, look at the easier fixes already stated first, last thing you want to do is dig up the outside to install new drainage pipe and stone.

There are not but our primary routes of egress are on the gable side.

We probably should have 'em over the doors, though, out front.

I was dodgin' snow comin' off the roof Monday whilst digging out our beater Tacoma pickup on the parking pad behind the garage :

Beautiful pics as always DrH. Love to visit the snow, Love to ski, just can't live in it

Marks got a beautiful place.

mhardy6647 wrote: »

You know youse guyses are welcome any time.
Of course, if you come now -- I may hand you a shovel.

Honda makes some sick snow blowers on tracks like a tank. Beast.