Roof Coils Ice Dams

The cables will create lots of zig zagging channels of melted snow across your roof.

Roof coils ice dams.

As more and more water melts down the roof and refreezes at these locations ice builds up and forms a blockage or dam. Heated roof systems offers you our exclusive patented technology that provides a concealed snow melt mat placed under various roofing material to eliminate ice dams. Install the cables along the roof edge where ice tends to build up. When it reaches the eaves where the temperature of the roof is colder the water refreezes.

An ice dam is a solid ridge of ice that forms along the edges of your roof. Our mats can be placed under asphalt shingles synthetic slate and shake and both standing seam and pro panel roofing giving you the continuous look to the roof edge. Heat coils most likely get their name from the fact that the material itself that is the heat cable comes in coils and when installed by a hack is sometimes left in coils on the roof. 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.

Ice dams can pose many problems. Heat cables for ice dams. Ask this old house general contractor tom silva explains the best ways to keep your roof and gutters free from those dreaded ice dams. Heat coils for ice dam prevention are of course the same thing as heat cables.

Roof deicing cables for ice dam prevention. Attached with clips along the roof s edge in a zigzag pattern heated cables help prevent ice dams that lift shingles and cause leaks. Clip in the cable along the same zigzag pattern as the shingle clips. Snow starts to melt in certain areas of the roof which are warmer than others due to heat loss from the attic.

Ice dams are those beautiful but deadly mounds of ice and icicles that you see along the edge of some roofs. Secure shingle clips to roof shingles using a flathead screwdriver making sure to align them in a zigzag pattern. Once this thick ice forms it prevents melting snow from running off the roof. This dam traps water allowing it to work under the shingles.

Where does that melted snow go. Ice dams result from repeated cycles of thawing and freezing which cause snow and ice to melt then freeze along the roof edge lead photo. They can also cause considerable roof leaks that lead to interior damage. Deicing cables heat the roof edge and keep it free of ice.

Roof deicing cables get their name from their primary purpose to deice roofs. Anything that melts snow on your roof can cause an ice dam. See below for a shopp. They form when snow melts in warmer areas of the roof sending water running down toward the edge.