Roof Ice Heat

With them you can prevent a lot of damage to your roof that can result from the buildup of ice dams.

Roof ice heat.

Use this calculator to estimate the cost and length of heat cables for your home based on your roof length and overhang width. Heattape pro heatcable pro. If snow and ice accumulate on your roof heating cables are an easy and effective to solution to eliminate melt the ice dams before they cause major damage. A metal roof is great for preventing snow build up because the sun heats up the metal and causes the snow to slide right off.

Heat cables can be installed to minimize ice formation and retention on roofs. After decades of working with ice dams gutter ice and snow covered eaves we decided that the status quo of ice dam prevention systems could use a bit of innovation. 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. In addition to cleaning out your gutters and installing gutter accessories to keep drainage clear roof cables also called heat cables offer added protection from a buildup of rooftop ice dams.

If you still have snow or ice on your metal roof there are several different tools you can use to melt the snow like heat cables calcium chloride or hot water. While it may seem like the perfect solution to ice dam formation heat cables come with quite a few disadvantages as well.