How To Remove Ice From Roof

Here are five ways to remove an ice dam from your roof.

How to remove ice from roof.

Snow rakes are long handled aluminum rakes designed to remove snow from high places without having to climb all the way up to the roof. An ice dam is a ridge of ice that forms at the edge of a roof and prevents melting snow from draining off the roof. This does not involve climbing onto a snow and ice covered roof and putting yourself at risk. This is great but ice shield also creates other problems for roof installers.

And often shingles stick to the ice shield and that can easily add hours if not days to the tear off project. By design ice shield adheres to the roof deck. Remove snow and ice dam from the roof this will eliminate the main ingredients necessary for the formation of another ice dam and will usually stop the water from coming in within an hour. So the first step is to remove this ice and snow using a snow rake which is a retractable rake that can extend up to about 17 feet or so in length.

You may not be able to get rid of the ice dam but using this rake you can get rid of the snow that is accumulating behind the ice dam and brush it away to prevent any further water damage. One way to get in front of potential ice dams is to remove the snow that causes them before it has a chance to melt. As anyone who has tried already knows it can be very difficult to remove shingles from ice shield. Using a roof rake and push broom not water remove the snow by carefully pulling it down the slope of the roof line.