Roof Coils Ice Dams

Secure shingle clips to roof shingles using a flathead screwdriver making sure to align them in a zigzag pattern.

Roof coils ice dams. When it reaches the eaves where the temperature of the roof is colder the water refreezes. Once this thick ice forms it prevents melting snow from running off the roof. They form when snow melts in warmer areas of the roof sending water running down toward the edge. Anything that melts snow on your roof can cause an ice dam.

Install the cables along the roof edge where ice tends to build up. See below for a shopp. 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. We say they are deadly because sheets of ice start to break loose as the weather gets a little warmer stabbing or crushing anything in its path.

This solution allows you to equalize your roof s temperature by heating it from the outside instead of blowing in cold air from the inside as we mention next in fast fixes. 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. 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. Where does that melted snow go.

Ice dams can pose many problems. An ice dam is a solid ridge of ice that forms along the edges of your roof. Attached with clips along the roof s edge in a zigzag pattern heated cables help prevent ice dams that lift shingles and cause leaks. They can also cause considerable roof leaks that lead to interior damage.

Heat coils for ice dam prevention are of course the same thing as heat cables. Deicing cables heat the roof edge and keep it free of ice. This dam traps water allowing it to work under the shingles. 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.

Roof deicing cables for ice dam prevention. The cables will create lots of zig zagging channels of melted snow across 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. Roof deicing cables get their name from their primary purpose to deice roofs.

Ice dams are those beautiful but deadly mounds of ice and icicles that you see along the edge of some roofs. The name is a bit of a misnomer however because technically roof deicing cables do not deice the entire. As more and more water melts down the roof and refreezes at these locations ice builds up and forms a blockage or dam. Heat cables for ice dams.