Snow Load

[consolenut]

How much snow would you say is to much. Got 0.5 of ice and a foot of snow inbound. thinking 6 inches would be plenty before sweeping it off.

[Xmcdog]

Dry snow is light and fluffy. Ice and wet snow is another matter.
Here in Nova Scotia the building design snowload is 12"
During the 2015 winter I had 3-4 ft on my house and was up there 4 times to shovel it off. There were quite a few roofs that could not withstand the weight.
6", I wouldn't worry about it.

[chunker]

Consider that the ice is extremely heavy and potentially destructive.

[IC2]

We see feet of usually pretty soggy snow here in the NE. I've had up to 2+ feet on the current 5er and over 3 feet on the last with nary a problem. Dealers don't do a thing to their syock in snow conditions and they are just fime, too.


Here's an interesting article on snow weight:https://www.inverse.com/article/1053...oes-snow-weigh


There are also snow load calculators on the net as well.