Ice Pucks For Roof

Experiencing roof ice dam problems.

Ice pucks for roof.

Only you can decide if ice melt socks and ice melting pucks are a good way to deal with ice dams. The hockey puck sized pellets only melted a whole in the ice or snow resulting in no improvement to eliminating ice dams or snow from the roof. A roof rake. These pucks do not require any work except from actually putting them on the roof.

When winter temperatures dip down to freezing ice dams can become a serious problem for homeowners salt pucks are supposed to eliminate the need to climb onto your roof and are designed to melt snow and ice before ice dams can form. The ice dam and snow are safely eliminated. Roofmelt begins to work when it comes into contact with snow and ice. You will need to use many pucks to get the desired effect.

Ice melting heat cables. See below for a shopp. They rarely work and they damage your roof. Salt pucks and salt filled pantyhose are unwise approaches to ice dam removal.

They do not work as well as the sock and can easily be blown off the roof. Water drains from the roof to the ground. Available in 14 lb. Salty chemical filled water will almost certainly.

Extra insulation in your attic to help prevent heat from escaping through the roof and causing ice dams in the first. Water drains from the roof to the ground the ice dam and snow are safely eliminated. The roofmelt tablet then melts it s way down and settles on the roofs surface. The roofmelt and water mixture begin to melt away from the bottom up the existing ice dam.

Roofmelt begins to work when it comes into contact with snow and ice the roofmelt and water mixture begin to melt away the existing ice dam. Unlike the sock they just melt ice around themselves and do not create a path for water to flow down the roof. If you d rather not use them some alternatives worth considering include. After doing as best i could i then placed more of the tablets in the problem areas with no improvement just holes where i had placed them.

In the end i still had to remove the snow and ice.