Gaffer222
Northwestern CT
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I roof rake the HTT after every storm.
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BradinOhio
Akron, Ohio
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sknight603 wrote:I hate winter.
Next year I will seriously consider paying for covered storage.
I have covered storage year round...well worth the extra cost to keep the elements off of the Roo.
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dcb17b
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Yes I would clean it off. We had a period of small snow storms with rain and ice that followed. Then we got over a foot of heavy snow then a week later got eight inches of fluffy stuff. I went out yesterday and cleaned MOST of it off with a plastic snow shovel. Don't worry about getting it all off as it would be easy to break a vent cover or rip the roof. I take a ladder and set it up on the side away from the awning and just paw away at the loose stuff. God I love winter
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Gregfromvt
Graniteville, Vermont
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I live in Central VT and have cleaned off TT twice this year already. I wallowed through snow up to my waist just to get to the TT. As they have stated make sure you know where your roof vents are(I found one of mine the hard way) Anyways I felt safer for the TT by clearing it off then by leaving it. By the way, roof vent broke while I was shoveling an area to get on the roof to shovel it. I guess common sense would say to use a plastic shovel and don't chip away at the snow to get to the roof. Our TT was easy to shovel off. I have washed my roof this summer so I got to know where most of where everything was.
Good luck and Happy Camping.. (Think Spring, I know I am)
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mwebber78
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Just wanted to give a update - I went to the dealer and cleaned off my coach. There were a few other people doing the same. Most of us had done this twice before with this time being our third.
I last cleaned the coach the first full weekend of January. At that time I had cleaned about 2' of fluffy snow with a ice layer on the roof that was 2" thick which I left.
This time I cleaned the roof I had several layers and the sum was at least 3' of snow. In fact, the snow had filled in between the units to the left and right of mine so high that when I walked on the snow I could see over the roof. I used a small folding ladder and got on the roof and cleaned all the snow off except that same ice layer. I cleaned all area's except for the general area's of vent's, AC and sewer pipes.
I would say Chuck is on with his estimate of weight on the roof with 3' of snow. The dealership has been cleaning all the units after 2' of snow, they told me another dealer that had left the slides out and not cleaned the roofs off had several units that snapped the weld on the axle hangers. I believe it given the weight of the coach, snow and then the added pressure of a slide being out with additional weight.
So the moral is to get up there and clean the roof. Also, if anyone doubts if you can walk on your roof they haven't seen 3' of snow on their roof yet!!!!!
Michael 
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feltham
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Has anyone out there ever tried to melt it off? Aside from the cost of the fuel or electric to run the heat source, I would think that getting the unit warm for a period of time would warm the roof. Keep the unit warm for 24 hours might remove a lot of build up. I know the roof is insulated, but you are still going to lose a lot of heat through it. This could help in getting rid of the ice build up. Shovel the snow, melt the ice?
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tallyo
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too much weight on the roof.should keep it as clear as possible all winter
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sknight603
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Removed snow, all the way down to the ice layer.
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mwebber78
New England
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SK -
That's exactly what mine looked like when I cleaned mine. It was horrible since I had only done it a month ago!
Glad you cleaned it.
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ram96
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I would clear it today. If you get rain, like we are, it will add a pile of weight.
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