Demolished
Another reason to hate this Indiana weather:
Okay so this morning for some reason I decided to look out the window and was astonished to see our gutter lying on the ground. I mean I knew I’d been hearing a lot of ice slide off the roof. We have a metal roof so when the sun hits it it gets warmer than your typical roof thus making the snow & ice melt and slide down our very steep roof. Well obviously it was sliding down and stopping where the gutter attaches to the house insead of sliding right off onto the ground. That is until recently when the weight became unbearable and it gave way.
I noticed there was still some ice hanging off the edge so I bundled up put on my boots and went out with a hoe to break off the ice in chunks so that it wouldn’t slide off in such big pieces.
When I arrived to the spot I realized there was really no way to do this without an extension ladder so I was ready to give up until my Christopher came back home from taking Cade to school, then I realized there was a lot of ice formed on top of the condenser unit for our heat pump. This was unusual because when it runs it stays warm enough to keep the ice melted off the top. So I moved closer and realized it was absolutely demolished. Obviously the gutter had fallen on top of it and with the weight of the ice it had broken the fan so that it had fallen down into the unit.
So yet another call to the insurance company. We have both our homeowners insurance and our auto insurance through the same company. Though this will be the first ever claim towards our homeowners. Like I’ve said previously: we are our insurance company’s worst nightmare right now.
My brother is on his way out with a new condenser at this very moment. Thankfully we have electric heat backup so we aren’t going without heat at the moment. . .and luckily my brother owns a heating/air conditioning company so we always have same day service.
