Installing gutter heat tape

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While visions of snow-covered, icicle-covered homes look pretty in books, the reality is that the ice that looks beautiful is probably damaging your roof and gutters. How can you install gutter heating cables to avoid problems with your gutters and your roof?

Gutter heat cables might seem like overkill. They might be fine for a while but, over time, ice dams and gutters clogged with ice cause damage to your home. Clogged gutters warp and sag and get damaged on the inside. Snow that lands on your warm roof, turns to water, and then turns to ice when it hits your gutters can turn into the dreaded ice dam.

Water backs up behind the ice in your gutters, seeping under your shingles. As it freezes and thaws and pushes its way in, it can cause leaks that damage the inside of your home. Every gutter heating cable has its own specific instructions. What follows below is a general guide for installation, but since your product might be different, be sure to install your heating cable after looking at the specific instructions for your product.

If you find the idea of standing on a ladder installing electrical cables to be overwhelming or you just want to ensure that the project will be done correctly, consider talking to a gutter expert. By working with a gutter company, you can ensure that your product will work with the other elements of your roof such as a new gutter or gutter cover.

You can find your local gutter experts here at Harry Helmet. Let us bring our decades of experience to your gutter heat cable installation project.

Schedule a free estimate today. Skip to content. Icicles everywhere? Talk with a gutter heat cable installer. Installing Gutter Heating Every gutter heating cable has its own specific instructions. Make sure that your roof qualifies; many kits are made for inclined roofs with tab shingles. Order the correct length of cable. Make sure that you install heating cables on a dry day.

With gutter guard and a heat cable, the gutter system creates a heat zone. This is hot enough to melt the amount of snow and ice we experience in the winter. As a company we have researched this topic extensively and drew from our years of experience.

Being based in the Hudson Valley we have been bombarded with ice dams for the past five years, so we have seen it first hand. We talked to our good friend Eric Self of Self Made Electric and asked his thoughts on the best way to install heat cable. He gave us the following suggestions:.

Installing heat cable on the roof adds unnecessary costs in time and product expense. Installing on the roof can triple the costs to have heat cable , he said. He went on to say, The idea with heat cable is to get the water from the roof to the ground. Using it in the gutter system will most efficiently get the job done.

And just for added emphasis, he went on to say, installing cable on the roof is unnecessary if you have the cable properly installed in the gutter system. He did warn us though that sometimes, there can still be problems with ice dams since gutters are not the only source of ice damming.

We touch on this very idea in our Ice Damming blog and encourage you to look into using many methods to prevent ice dams. Keeping ice and snow out of the gutter system entirely will greatly reduce the risks associated with the ice expansion at the roofline. Ice in the gutters push against the hangers and fascia and can add thousands of pounds to your gutter systems. We highly recommend the installation of gutter guards to strengthen the gutter system.

Much as we recommend using a guard, it cannot resolve or stop ice damming alone. In fact, most guards are known to have icicles early in the winter. Shy of insulating your attic with spray foam, properly installed heat cable is the most effective way to deal with ice and snow in the gutters, as well as combating ice dams.

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