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Dealing With Snow On The Roof | Bedford NY Homes – Robert Paul’s blog

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With snow piling up on my roof I am afraid it might do damage or worse yet cave in. What can I do?
Lisa – Ypsilanti, MI

I have talked to many people with the same concern this week. The fact is, snow along with ice could cause roof damage. The threat of collapse is a very low probability, but possible. As I stated in my February 10th, 2010 article “preventing Ice Dams”, sometimes snow can weigh up to 30 LB per square foot. On a 1500-square-foot house with a roof surface area of 1600 square feet, that’s 48,000 Lbs or more on your roof! Some roofs aren’t built to withstand that amount of weight. The weight of a large amount of snow and ice can also cause damage to your gutters and downspouts.

The damage mostly occurs when the snow melts and refreezes underneath snow where it meets the shingles. Snow melts due to the heat from the attic, then drains to the gutters and refreezes. Now the water and ice accumulates and works back up the roof growing underneath the shingles causing damage – and in many cases melts into the house.

Using a roof rake and getting it replaced or repaired by austin roofing will help you alleviate some of the stress on both you and your roof. A roof rake is a solid piece of metal or plastic about 16 to 20 inches wide on the end of an extension pole which allows you to “rake” or pull snow off the roof. They can be purchased at most of your local hardware stores. Remove as much snow as possible from the top of the roof down toward the gutters. About 10 to 15 feet should be sufficient. Never remove the snow while on top of the roof. For obvious reasons, it is a slippery slope and snow isn’t as soft as you think to land in.

Apply calcium chloride to all ice in gutters and down spouts. Do not use sodium chloride (rock salt), or table salt, it can cause damage to your landscape greenery. I’ve seen homeowners insert calcium chloride into panty hose and lay it inside the gutters, it was successful to remove the ice. To apply, I recommend tossing it up into the gutters, sounds funny but it really is the best way. Roofers In Boca Raton will do it professionally for you at fair pricing.

There is controversy over whether or not to use a ladder when removing the snow. I believe it is much safer not to use a ladder because when the ice and snow melts, it can accumulate on the rungs of the ladder and refreeze in minutes. This is definitely a slippery and hazardous situation. You can easily fall and get seriously hurt.

Lastly, if your home continually has a problem with ice damming, have a professional check your home for proper roof ventilation and insulation. You may consider having heat tape installed in those problem areas along your roof then you’d be able to melt the ice with a flick of a switch. Heat tape is a low temp electrical cord that is normally placed along the perimeter of the roof, in the roof valleys and in the gutters and downspouts to keep the water moving during the frigid winter months. It should be installed by a professional.

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10 David Ogilvy Quotes that Could Revolutionize Your Blogging | Bedford Homes

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A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.
David Ogilvy

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
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Advertising is only evil when it advertises evil things.
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Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.
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Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.
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Can advertising foist an inferior product on the consumer? Bitter experience has taught me that it cannot. On those rare occasions when I have advertised products which consumer tests have found inferior to other products in the same field, the results have been disastrous.
David Ogilvy

Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won’t think you’re going gaga.
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Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose… the vast majority of editors are incorruptible.
David Ogilvy

Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
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Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.
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First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.
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Good copy can’t be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You’ve got to believe in the product.
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Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.
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I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.
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I did not feel ‘evil’ when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
David Ogilvy

I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
David Ogilvy

I don’t know the rules of grammar… If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.
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I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
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4 Blogging Tips | Bedford NY Real Estate

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  • Be sure you post unique information. So many blogs copy and paste each others’ ideas and end up giving redundant information to the reader. Even if you link back to another blog, copying someone else’s creativity is not what good blogging is all about. Come up with topics you want to write about and stick to that list.
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    Post REGULARLY. Posting often is important but not nearly as important as the regularity of your posts. If you don’t have a lot to write about, post once a month. If you have a lot of things to share, post two times a day. Perhaps to start you could post something once a week. Be sure you always post new content on the same days if you do it weekly/monthly and around the same time if you post daily. Readers get frustrated when they check back on your blog expecting new content and discover you haven’t updated in a while. Similarly if they check back expecting just one post and you have five, they feel the need to check back more frequently. Then you better live up to your own standards or they’ll go back to being frustrated at the lack of fresh content.

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    To help with your post regularity, write posts in advance and schedule them. I’ll add a website below that explains how to save posts and set a time for them to publish later. This comes particularly in handy when you don’t have a regular schedule or you like to write a bunch of posts in one block of time.

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    Get your links out there! There are numerous websites that catalog blogs. Technorati.com and del.icio.us are two popular ones. Search for friends who have similar interests and build your network that way. Similarly, find other blogs that are complementary to yours, contact the writer and suggest a link exchange. Sharing readers is a great way to get the kind of traffic you want.

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    Governor Cuomo’s NYS Real Estate Tax Facts | Bedford NY Real Estate

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    Governor Cuomo promises to CAP real estate taxes because he believes they are too high.

    Governor Cuomo’s NYS Real Estate Tax Facts:   (  http://tinyurl.com/2ed83fo  )

    1.     Property tax levies in New York grew by 73% from 1998-2008, more than twice the rate of inflation during that period.

    2.     New York has 2nd highest combined state and local taxes in the nation and the highest local taxes in America as a percentage of personal income, 79% above the national avarage.

    3.     The median property taxes paid by New Yorkers are 96% above the national median.

    4.     When measured in absolute dollars paid Westchester (1st), Nassau (2nd), and Rockland (5th) counties are among the 5 highest taxed in the nation.

    5.     When property taxes are measuredd as a percentage of home values over a 3 year period, the top sixteen counties in the nation are all in upstate New York.

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    7 Homes Burglarized in Bedford NY. | Bedford NY Real Estate

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    BEDFORD NY– Bedford, Pound Ridge, and Westchester County police were on the move today on the ground and overhead.

    They were racing from one house alarm to another on Tuesday. Burglars in broad daylight robbed seven Bedford homes all in the same general

    area.  The thieves ransacked the homes, bypassed Christmas presents, and got away with jewelry, electronics and video game systems.

    Particularly disturbing for authorities is the number of people who called police today saying they saw something suspicious on Tuesday.

    “They were observed in several different areas. The same vehicle description, the same persons description. It would have been helpful to get that

    information right away,” Lt. Jeff Dickan said.

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    Blizzard in Bedford NY | Bedford NY Real Estate

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    Bedford NY Snow Storm today!!

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    Wish You A Merry Christmas

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    When a person wishes you “Merry Christmas” they are implying several things. First, the “Merry” part is a wish that you will find the season, more specifically the occasion, as cheerful, hopeful and joyous. Agreeable or pleasant are applicable too, with joyful probably being the single closest definition. 

    The occasion to be joyful about is Christmas. The word Christmas is derived from “Christ’s Mass” which has its roots in the Middle English “Christemasse” and the Old English “Cristes mæsse.” 

    Christ, of course, refers to Jesus Christ. The “mass” in this case comes from the English meaning and tradition of a religious feast in honor of a specific person. Christmas Day is the feast day of Christ. Christmas also means the larger season around Christmas Day or the 12 days of Christmastide. 

    Christmas day, December 25th, is the celebration of Jesus’ birth. The announcement of the Angel to the Shepherds in the Gospel of Luke clarifies the sentiment behind “Merry Christmas“: “…the angel said to the Jews, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Messiah the Master.”

     

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    Jude Law And Sienna Miller Buy $12 Million London Townhouse | Luxury Real Estate

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    Jude Law and Sienna Miller have plunked down $12,298,650 for a London townhouse, and perhaps a modicum of relationship stability following a relatively tumultous period. British actors Law and Miller met during the filming of Alfie in 2003, but split up in 2005 after Law began an affair with the nanny of his three children with former wife Sadie Frost. They each had their flings (Law had a fourth child with New Zealand model Samantha Burke), but eventually rekindled their romance. 

    Though not married, the couple’s new 5,092-square-foot home certainly represents something of a commitment. With four floors and a finished basement, the Georgian-style home has 7 bedrooms and 5.5 bathrooms. A small walled and gated courtyard leads into a grand reception hall that befits the home’s history, which dates back to 1820. Click to the jump for house photos. 

     

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    Beatle Wants to Sell His Aspen Ranch For $4.5 Million | Bedford Luxury Homes

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    Ringo Starr and his wife, Barbara, are asking $4.5 million for their three-bedroom vacation home near Aspen, Colorado.

    The 70-year-old Beatles drummer, who continues to tour with his All Starr Band, bought the home in 1990. The wood cabin sits on about 16 flat acres in Woody Creek and has frontage on Roaring Fork River. The roughly 3,200-square-foot cabin was built in 1987 and is surrounded by unused horse paddocks. 

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    Bedford NY School Budget Rises Again | Bedford NY Real Estate

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    Next year’s budget will have to increase by 5.12 percent, or $5.97 million,  in order to maintain current staffing and programming at the Bedford Central School District. 

    School officials detailed their estimates and forecasts for next year’s budget during Wednesday’s Bedford school board meeting.  

    The ‘go forward budget,’ or the budget to maintain existing programming and services, is estimated to be $122,450,000 next school year. That represents a 5.12 percent increase from this year’s budget. 

    “We’re assuming that we’re not going to get any increase in class sections, or any changes in class sections with no problematic changes to the student needs at this point,” said Mark Betz, the district’s assistant superintendent for business and administrative services. 

    These figures also assume that the district will use $4.4 million in budget reserves to help lower the tax levy.

    The budget also doesn’t take into account the possible passage of property tax cap by the state Legislature. Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo’s property tax cap proposal would limit the amount of tax school district by 2 percent or the rate inflation.

    One of the biggest thing driving up the budget are increased state employee and teacher pension funds, which are anticipated to increase by 35 percent next year, according to Betz. 

    Betz said those pension contributions are mandated by the state and that the district has no control over them. 

    “Just take that $2 million and think of that in terms of your tax levy,” Betz said. “Your tax levy, right now, is at $103 million. So, essentially, 2 percent is now added to your levy before you start just in pensions.”

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