With the blizzard on Sat night/ Sun in Massachusetts and Rhode Island you may need someone to fix an ice dam or two! With over 25 inches in some places, you certainly want a roofing company to remove some of that heavy load of snow on your roof.
Ice dams are when you have snow on your roof and that snow starts to melt during the day. Well at night you may have water in your gutters and that will freeze. Once that water freezes inside your gutters the melting water from the snow on your roof starts backing up under your shingles and causes major roof leaks. Sometimes they can come pouring in like a waterfall!
There are some ways to fix this. There are a few systems that fix ice dams such as roof heating cables. If you are going to go that route make sure you do some research into the company that makes them. These are quite a few varieties of heater cables but one company i would recommend is Bylin. They make good quality heater cables that are commercial grade that can be installed on your home and significantly eliminate ice dam issues
Sun, Dec 20, 2009
Roofing