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2. What is an ‘ice dam?’ How to avoid this rooftop hazard during ...

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   As freezing temperatures descend on Kansas City, here’s how to keep your roof free of this ice formation and prevent damage to your home.

3. Scrub Hub: What are ice dams and how big of a problem are ...

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   For this edition of the Scrub Hub, we are looking at ice dams: What are they, what causes them, and what problems are they making worse?

4. Ice dam (roof) - Wikipedia

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   Ice dam forming on slate roof. An ice dam is an ice build-up on the eaves of sloped roofs of heated buildings that results from melting snow under a snow pack reaching the eave and freezing there. Freezing at the eave impedes the drainage of meltwater, which adds to the ice dam and causes backup of the meltwater, which may cause water leakage ...

5. Bituminous waterproofing - Wikipedia

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   The underlayment also sheds any water which penetrates the roof covering from an ordinary leak, a leak from wind-driven rain or snow, wind damage to the roof covering, or ice dams. However, the application of underlays may increase the roof temperature, which is the leading cause of ageing of asphalt shingles. Not installing an underlay may ...

6. Snow guard - Wikipedia

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   Three-pipe Snow Fence System Snow Guards in Jackson, WY, USA Standing seam metal roof with Snow guards to keep snow from sliding off the roof too quickly. A snow guard is a device used to retain snow and ice from falling from one surface to a lower one; in contemporary usage, they are installed to prevent snow/ice pack from avalanching and damaging people, plants, and property below.

7. When should you remove snow and icicles from your roof? - AOL

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   Swiss police officer shovels snow on a roof top of a hotel, the day before the opening of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2012 .

8. Snow removal - Wikipedia

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   Some individual buildings may melt snow and ice with electric heating elements buried in the pavement, or even on a roof to prevent ice dams on the shingles, or to keep massive chunks of snow and dangerous icicles from collapsing on anyone below. Small areas of pavement can be kept ice-free by circulating heated liquids in embedded piping systems.

9. Bursting ice dam in Alaska highlights risks of glacial ...

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   The gray, two-story home with white trim toppled and slid, crashing into the river below as rushing waters carried off a bobbing chunk of its roof. The destruction came over the weekend as a ...