Heating Roof Eves

When mounted to your roof eaves and or valleys the roof heating systems eliminate ice and snow in those areas enhancing safety and reducing risk of winter damage.

Heating roof eves. The point in ice dam heat tape is not to prevent all ice from forming but to keep ice from forming along certain pathways. Saved time and not only protected your roof but the. Heated roof systems offers you our exclusive patented technology that provides a concealed snow melt mat placed under various roofing material to eliminate ice dams. This means that you should not install more than 190 feet of heat wire on a single 15a circuit.

As snow is warmed by the rising heat inside your home and melts on portions of the roof that are directly above your living area the melt runs down the slanted roof. How to install heat tape deicier cable on your roof for eaves and gutters and downspouts for snow and ice removal. At the eaves of the roof by far the most common spot for ice dams heat cables also known as heat tape or roof ice cables are often the first things that come to mind for homeowners attempting to deal with ice dams. However it may run into frozen snow and ice inside the gutter or on the eave which doesn t receive heat transferred from the living area.

Ice dams cause leaks when snow melts higher on the roof and that melt water hits a dam of ice. Most roof heating wire products are 110v with rated electric use of 8w per linear foot. Notice that in this photo there is still an accumulation of ice on the eave. Learn more about snofree eave roof panels.

Radiant solutions offers the best heat tape options for ice dam prevention. For traditional a line roofs our heated roof eave systems are designed to melt ice and allow it to flow off the roof without causing ice dams along the edge. Measure the length of your roof line. Measure the depth of the eave overhang from the edge of the roof not the gutter straight back to the outside wall.

We make make industry leading self regulating heat tape with a 5 year warranty. If the eave overhang is 12 inches deep multiply the roof line measurement determined in step 1 by 4. How to melt ice and snow on your eaves an. Roof heat tape is a term used.