Haven’t had much use of it this month. Put it up when it hit 40°F in December. All melted in our rain lately.

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    14 days ago

    50-70s houses used shallower roofs. The adoption of steel plates in trusses in the 80s let houses have much steeper pitches to prevent this issue.

    • Johnmannesca@lemmy.world
      3·
      14 days ago

      Some houses in the US Midwest are over 100yo so there’s likely plenty of places that could stand to benefit.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        2 days ago

        i mean, northern europe has the same climate and houses that are like 200 years old, never heard of them having this issue