How To Install Gutter Heater Cable

To install roof heating cables you must first apply shingle clips to the structure.

How to install gutter heater cable.

You can heat an area as small as above an entrance way or an entire gutter run. Basically you will lay the cable in a zigzag or triangle pattern with the base of the triangle being about 15 inches and the height of the triangle being measured according to the length of the overhang. The heat cable prevents ice and ice dams from forming in your gutters while allowing water to flow through gutters that would normally freeze solid. Plug it into a gfi outlet.

Measure the length of the gutter where you want to stretch the cable then figure out how far to the nearest foot the eave extends beyond the exterior wall of the home. Run the end of the roof cable along the inside of your gutter and down the gutter s downspout. Begin installing the cable at the corner of your roof running in a zigzag pattern to create 15 triangles. Run the cable back.

Multiply the gutter length by four if the eave is roughly one foot by five for a two foot eave and by six for a three foot eave. Route the cable from the electrical outlet to the starting point on the roof. Once you have worked out how much you require all that is left is installing the gutter heat tape according to specific patterns. Here are the basic steps for installing new heat cable along a roof eave and gutter.

Secure it with brackets connected to each shingle at the bend of the cable. Want to see how we install it. Run the cable through the gutter on the inside and down the downspout so that water will continue to flow from the roof to the gutters to the downspout. Secure the roof cable with brackets affixed to each shingle where the roof cable bends.

Ice shield can be heated with a self regulating heat cable or a constant wattage heat cable. Clip the starting point of the cable to a.