Ice melting heat cables.
Ice pucks for roof.
These pucks do not require any work except from actually putting them on the roof.
The ice dam and snow are safely eliminated.
Water drains from the roof to the ground.
They rarely work and they damage your roof.
The roofmelt tablet then melts it s way down and settles on the roofs surface.
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.
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.
60 tablets per bucket.
In the end i still had to remove the snow and ice.
Water drains from the roof to the ground the ice dam and snow are safely eliminated.
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Salt pucks and salt filled pantyhose are unwise approaches to ice dam removal.
Salty chemical filled water will almost certainly.
They do not work as well as the sock and can easily be blown off the roof.
Ask this old house general contractor tom silva explains the best ways to keep your roof and gutters free from those dreaded ice dams.
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Roofmelt begins to work when it comes into contact with snow and ice.
Unlike the sock they just melt ice around themselves and do not create a path for water to flow down the roof.
Only you can decide if ice melt socks and ice melting pucks are a good way to deal with ice dams.
Experiencing roof ice dam problems.
You will need to use many pucks to get the desired effect.
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.
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.
Extra insulation in your attic to help prevent heat from escaping through the roof and causing ice dams in the first.