I don't know...probably too late now, but in the future, that might not be a bad idea. Who knew? We've had it leak a little tiny bit before but nothing like this...
You know...a little water would get in when a heavy rain would come or the snow would melt. But this is 3-4 inches of solid ice melting off a 25x25 foot roof.
It's a mess, and I hate it, but I think it'll clean up ok.
We'll see...I'm thinking about it. It's just the end wall at the low end of the shop, you know...the roof slants down. I'm considering putting up a "fake wall"...something with wingnuts, no kidding, that can be taken down, dried out, then put back up.
Well, phooey, it sounds like a real mess. At least it's draining. You may not remember but the week before Entmoot we had a cold snap here and we had gotten a lot of snow and then it started raining. The gutters and downspouts were clogged, and ice dams formed at the edge of the roof. This roof isn't slanted enough, water was pooling up there... so much it was tweaking the whole house, we could barely get the door open. We went up and hacked at the ice dams until we broke them through and water could pour out. Never had that happen before, part of the problem was needles and moss on the roof too, slowing the drainage...It wasn't good, I think it was > < that close to collapsing... that's why we wanted to clean the roof after this last wind storm and get all those branches and needles off.