Best Affordable Solutions is your complete home exterior care company, With over 50 years of home care experience we offer the latest in gutter protection and roof restoration, along with power washing and vinyl siding restoration.
Now also installing "Wrap-on" roof & gutter de-icing cables.
Now's the time to prevent ice damage! Call for discounted pricing!
What is an ice dam?
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An ice dam is a ridge of ice that forms at the edge of a roof and prevents melting snow (water) from draining off the roof. The water that backs up behind the dam can leak into a home and cause damage to walls, ceilings, insulation, and other areas. Figure 1 shows a cross section of a home with an ice dam.
What causes ice dams?
There is a complex interaction among the amount of heat loss from a house, snow cover, and outside temperatures that leads to ice dam formation. For ice dams to form there must be snow on the roof, and, at the same time, higher portions of the roof's outside surface must be above 32°F while lower surfaces are below 32°F. For a portion of the roof to be below 32°F, outside temperatures must also be below 32°F. When we say temperatures above or below 32°F, we are talking about average temperature over sustained periods of time.
The snow on a roof surface that is above 32°F will melt. As water flows down the roof it reaches the portion of the roof that is below 32°F and freezes. Voila!—an ice dam.
The dam grows as it is fed by the melting snow above it, but it will limit itself to the portions of the roof that are on the average below 32°F. So the water above backs up behind the ice dam and remains a liquid. This water finds cracks and openings in the exterior roof covering and flows into the attic space. From the attic it could flow into exterior walls or through the ceiling insulation and stain the ceiling finish.
Prevent ice dams with "Wrap-On
Roof & Gutter De-Icing Cables" professionally install by our trained technicians.
Please contact us, ben@bestaffordablesolutions.com
or by phone @ 440-759-8848
or by fax @ 330-239-0645
We also install Gutterbrush! This is the simple solution you have been looking for to solve your gutter clog problems. GutterBrush will keep debris from blocking the flow of gutters and greatly reduce or eliminate the need for annual gutter cleaning.
We also sell and install other gutter protection systems including "Leaf Relief" and "Flat Aluminum Screens"
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