[l008com]

I have a normal single story ranch, but I have this odd, ugly metal roof over my basement door. The house is on a hill so it has a walk out basement. I'm not sure how this roof survived with the previous owner, because it seems to get noticeably more beat up with each and every snow fall.

I do eventually want to replace the whole thing with a regular wooden roof structure. But I have no money for that right now. Right now I'm just looking for ways I can try to augment this thing so it doesn't fall down in the middle of winter.

It doesn't help that my house has solar panels, so I get big snow avalanches that slide off all at once and demolish anything I have around.

Here's an old picture of it after a huge snow avalanche from last year. I absolutely expected the thing to be on the ground but somehow it held.

 

[craig11152]

How about some 2x4's underneath to shore it up for the winter. I'm picturing 2 vertical holding up 1 horizontal tight to the underside of the metal. That times how ever many sets you think you need 2 or 3?

 

[Arlo]

You live in MA so you should be familiar with snow rakes. I'd get one and be fastidious about clearing snow in addition to shoring up the roof as craig11152 describes.

There's a reason my father married a southerner and moved here. They don't sell snow rakes down here.

 

[jimn]

This don't look like anything that should have been installed in the snow belt. Pitch is wrong and it just looks,flimsy. If it were mine I would just remove it.

 

[craig11152]

This don't look like anything that should have been installed in the snow belt. Pitch is wrong and it just looks,flimsy. If it were mine I would just remove it.

My guess is it may predate the solar panels and maybe it was OK till the panels showed up and let snow fall in larger chunks.
But your right that it doesn't look like it could handle significant snow dropping from above.