Ice Pucks For Roof

Available in 14 lb.

Ice pucks for roof.

Roofmelt begins to work when it comes into contact with snow and ice. Ask this old house general contractor tom silva explains the best ways to keep your roof and gutters free from those dreaded ice dams. In fact any form of diy ice dam removal is unlikely to end well there s another reason not to throw salt on your roof and it s a big one. 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. Salty chemical filled water will almost certainly. 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. These pucks do not require any work except from actually putting them on the roof.

Experiencing roof ice dam problems. In the end i still had to remove the snow and ice. Water drains from the roof to the ground. A roof rake.

The roofmelt tablet then melts it s way down and settles on the roofs surface. Water drains from the roof to the ground the ice dam and snow are safely eliminated. 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. Only you can decide if ice melt socks and ice melting pucks are a good way to deal with ice dams.

The roofmelt and water mixture begin to melt away from the bottom up the existing ice dam. Salt pucks and salt filled pantyhose are unwise approaches to ice dam removal. 60 tablets per bucket. The ice dam and snow are safely eliminated.

See below for a shopp. They do not work as well as the sock and can easily be blown off the roof. If you d rather not use them some alternatives worth considering include. Ice melting heat cables.

Unlike the sock they just melt ice around themselves and do not create a path for water to flow down the roof.