One Simple Way to Prevent Ice Dams

Preventing Ice dams in Park City is critical to keep homeowners safe and prevent damage to residents homes. Ice dams form on Park City homes as sitting snow melts from a roof and refreezes at the edge overnight. As this happens over and over, ice dams grow bigger and bigger.

Why does it matter that an ice dams forms on your house? Most importantly, ice dams can be vary dangerous and deadly. Ice dams can grow to weight thousands of points and can fall unexpectedly. Prevent them from forming helps keep you safe.

Preventing ice dams also increases the lifespan of your roof because the ice buildup accelerates the wear on your roofs surface and can lead to major leaks that cause severe interior home damage.

The fasts and least intrusive way to prevent ice dams from forming is to install heat cable.

Installing Heat Cable

Heat cable or heat trace is a snow melt solution for your roof that is highly effective for preventing ice dams.

You have likely seen it on homes all around Park City; it’s the black cable that can be seen on the eaves (edges of a roof) and valleys of a house.

How Does Heat Cable Work & What does It do?

Heat cable melts snow off of your roof by heating up to above freezing temperatures.

It is attached to the eaves, valleys, and gutters of your home that are susceptible to ice dams and heavy snow build up.

When temperatures drop below 40 degrees, the heat cable automatically begins to heat up to prevent ice from forming.

Because the edges of your roof are heated, the melted snow from above your living area never gets a chance to freeze on the edge of your roof.