Roof Snow Removal

When heavy snow puts extreme weight on your roof, it’s vital that you have that snow removed before it causes your roof to collapse. When a roof collapses, it causes significant damage. Even everyday snowfall can build up to dangerous levels, while freeze and thaw cycles cause problems with your roof that can cause leaks, damage and inconvenience in your home. Call or text our roof snow removal team as soon as you notice the problem. 

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Humans aren’t the only ones that experience stress. During the frigid winter, your roof suffers from the heavy weight of snow and ice causing stress. The roof can cave in due to the accumulation of the snowfall. Naturally, rainwater will flow to the lowest point of your roof, though once the temperature drops below freezing, this can form large ice blocks. As these large ice blocks increase with weight, the stress of the roof increases also posing a higher risk of cave-ins.

Ice dams is an ice build-up on the eaves of sloped roofs of heated buildings that results from melting snow under a snow pack reaching the eave and freezing there. Freezing at the eave impedes the drainage of meltwater, which adds to the ice dam and causes backup of the meltwater, which may cause water leakage into the roof and consequent damage to the building and its contents if the water leaks through the roof.

A freeze-thaw cycle (FTC) occurs when air temperature drops low enough to freeze water (32°F), then increases enough for it to thaw again. FTCs usually occur most frequently in the wintertime, though have the potential to occur at any time of year. Accumulation of snow and ice cause cracks to become present. When water seeps into even the tiniest cracks, this could pose a major issue for your roof. These leaks start to spread throughout your home and overtime the crack can become much more prominent.

Ice dams are created when melting snow on a roof doesn’t entirely flow off into the gutters. When the temperature drops, the resulting ice blockage creates a dam that will further slow additional melt, allowing it to get underneath the roof’s shingles and penetrate the protective top layer of your home. When properly installed, roof deicing cables work very well, although they don’t often make the dramatic visual change most people expect. The cables don’t totally clear patches of snow, but rather melt the ice immediately around them, providing enough space for water to run off into your gutter. This is an important distinction: ice dams may still form but they won’t block the flow of additional snow melt, and that’s what protects your roof.
Protect your home from Winter and give us a call.  (773) 739-7822