Georgina conditions that change how ice dam prevention is done
Homeowners in Georgina tend to call us at one of two moments: the week before guests arrive, or the week after something started smelling wrong.
Range hoods and basement bathroom fans routinely out-pull an older flue, so the house depressurises and the flue reverses — a Georgina problem that looks like a chimney fault but starts elsewhere in the building.
Wind loading off Lake Ontario pushes driving rain against the south and west faces of a house, which is why water entry so often shows up on one side of a Georgina home and nowhere else.
Across Roches Point, Jackson's Point, Sutton, Willow Beach and Baldwin, the housing stock changes street by street, and the correct method changes with it. A century home with a soft-brick stack does not get the same treatment as a 2010 build with a factory-built vent — using one method on both is how systems get damaged.
the practical takeaway is that a ice dam prevention visit should start with an assessment, not a tool. Any crew that begins work before telling you what they found is guessing on your behalf.