The tablets help prevent roof damage by melting through ice dams and allowing water to drain safely.
Ice melt for roofs gutters.
Use to help prevent ice from forming under the edge of your shingles.
Water will flow as long as the roof surface stays above freezing.
Ice dams are frozen ridges of melting snow that stop the water from flowing off the roof.
As snow is warmed by the rising heat inside your home and melts on portions of the roof that are directly above your living area the melt runs down the slanted roof.
Ice dams can form on roofs eaves dormers roof valleys gutters skylights and downspouts and can cause shingle damage water leakage into the roof damage to insulation moisture leakage into walls and ceilings and gutter or downspout problems.
Next go up on the roof and put ice melt socks vertically one end onto the gutter and the other end up the roof slopes spacing them every 3 feet.
Snow is porous and allows water to flow.
It is to provide a clear path for melted water to flow through the ice off the roof and onto the ground.
The roofmelt ice melt is designed to eliminate the need to climb onto roofs while melt snow.
Even on metal roofs the sun and building heat combine to melt accumulated snow at the roof snow interface.
While safely on the ground toss a roofmelt tablet onto the roof.
When they form melting snow may be prevented from draining off your roof and into your rain gutter system potentially causing major damage as water begins to leak through the roof and down the walls of your home.
Clip in the cable along the same zigzag pattern as the shingle clips.
Protect your roof from damage and leaking keep the water flowing in gutter downspouts.
Ice dams are ridges of ice that can form at the edge of a roof.
Secure shingle clips to roof shingles using a flathead screwdriver making sure to align them in a zigzag pattern.
Ice is not porous and will trap water.
Designed to prevent ice buildup known as ice dams from forming on roofs and in gutters and downspouts.
In this video master electrician for ask this old house scott caron helps a homeowner install heat cables on his roof to stop ice dams.
However it may run into frozen snow and ice inside the gutter or on the eave which doesn t receive heat transferred from the living area.
When properly installed and operated this product creates a path for melted snow or ice melt water to drain from the roof to the ground.
The thermwell 200 ft.
This de icing kit comes with shingle clips and is 200 ft.
Their purpose is not to entirely eliminate ice along the eaves.
Heat cables are usually installed in patterns along the eaves in gutters and in downspouts.
Long for large roofs.
