Refuse Collection
All Refuse Collection is on Monday
MPE homeowners: Be mindful that refuse containers must be moved back to the units after collection. Left out on the street, they are unsightly to fellow street residents and broadcast a message, no one is there. While not mandatory, we are trying to move residents to one refuse carrier (each street) to save the wear and tear on the Circle streets.
MPE streets are old and underlying structure is aging. Please review your current refuse collection cost and see if this can both save you money and help MPE reduce wear and tear and extend the remaining life of the Circle streets. Truly a WIN-WIN!
Garage Sales
Did you know? MPE HOA does not have a policy for garage sales but there is a recommendation. The extra traffic that a garage sale pulls into the circle street is the problem and the common complaint from homeowners.
The recommendation is to talk to other homeowners on the Circle when considering a garage sale, in hopes they will join in, thus having one “collective” sale rather than “separate” ones throughout the year. That inherent extra traffic on the circle street will be reduced to a one time event for the year.
Homeowners planning, communicating and joining forces into a “collective” garage sales on the respective circle street, results in an overall “win-win” for MPE. Gale Gehlsen (unit #54), Patty Young (unit #43) and Joan Galloway (unit #53) have been doing a great job the past two years (right after the July 4th weekend), organizing successful HOA garage sales.
Ice Damming
It is a known fact that 99% of ice damming is roof ventilation. What happens in Pinetop is a combo of ventilation and weather. Snow, then it starts to melt on those 40 and 50 degree days after the snows, then those real cold snaps of -5 in the a.m. to a high of 28 for the day, this happens for a couple days, and then the roof freezes solid. These events are what is unique to Arizona. Most other places it stays fairly cold and minimizes the weather effects.
All building practices change and when MPE units were built, the ventilation was thought to be more than adequate. Today's standards, the units may lack proper ventilation.
Wood shingle roofs are the worst type of roof for ice damming; lots of crevices and rough edges to hold ice, shingles do not seal down at the front edge, no drip edge. For the past several years, the Board has approved drip edge, and snow & ice shield when converting roofs from wood shingles to asphalt shingles.
Heat cables are somewhat of a fix. They do a good job in the colder climates where all you have to heat is the 2 foot area of the overhang and the gutters. Up here, it is the ENTIRE roof, usually just the side that is in the shade(north facing sides) but that whole side from front of overhang all the way up to the top ridge line, ice dams up. Cable cost can run $5,000 or more. Just to install along the 2 ft corridor, the average cost is $2,600 per unit. This involves an electrician, and building code requires outlets within 2 feet of the cable (a number of outlets to properly work on the entire roof). To date, heating cables in this Pinetop area are not proving to be the answer.
Ice damming is considered an act of God. The Arizona R.O.C. will not cover ice damming. They exclude it as a recoverable action from a roofing company, no recourse. Some insurance companies exclude payment for ice damming also.