Torch To Melt Ice In Gutters

Running a heat cable through your open gutter system.

Torch to melt ice in gutters.

There are two options for heated gutter systems. In many cases this is an extremely simple and cost effective solution that can help prevent costly water damage to your home. That is unless you have some ice dam removal skills. This roof de icing cable is not intended for use as a snow melting system to clear roof of ice and snow.

This is where an ice melt system comes in. An ice dam is a wall o f ice that forms at the edge of the roof usually at the gutters or soffit. This product is intended for the sole use of preventing ice dams from forming on inclined roofs with tab shingles in gutters and downspouts. I m talking about ice dams something that more suitably should have been called ice damns because they pretty much damn your roof to hell.

Simply put and ice melt system heats your gutters keeping that water from refreezing and causing mounds of ice. Some gutters have seams in them that could possibly split apart and wreck your gutters they say using a blowtorch to melt away ice is actually burning more of a hole in your pocket.