It’s a winter wonderland out there! With a fresh coating of snow arriving almost daily, we ask ourselves will it ever stop?
Of course, we know it will but not without a little more pain, in the form of the dreaded ice dam on our homes.
An ice dam forms at the edge of the roof when melting snow from the roof re-freezes at the colder roof edge. Icicles form along with a large block of ice, usually starting in the gutter channel. As this block of ice continues to grow, the snow melt from the roof has no where to go as it flows down your roof. Hence the ice becomes a dam.
Consequently, the snow melt now starts to back up under roof shingles and potentially infiltrate to the interior of the home.