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2. Trace heating - Wikipedia

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   Placement of heat trace cable on roofs or in gutters to melt ice during winter months. When used in gutters the cable is not meant to keep the gutters free of ice or snow, but only to provide a free path for the melted water to get off the roof and down the downspout or drain piping.

3. Ice dam (roof) - Wikipedia

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   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 into the roof and consequent ...

4. 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.

5. Snowmelt system - Wikipedia

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   A heated sidewalk in Holland, Michigan Installation of a geothermal snowmelt system on a street in Reykjavík, Iceland.. A snowmelt system prevents the build-up of snow and ice on cycleways, walkways, patios and roadways, or more economically, only a portion of the area such as a pair of 2-foot (0.61 m)-wide tire tracks on a driveway or a 3-foot (0.91 m) center portion of a sidewalk, etc.

6. Snowmelter - Wikipedia

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   The melt-water is discharged into a storm drain or onto the ground. Melting snow artificially helps keep roads, airport tarmacs and other surfaces clear and ready to use, [ 1 ] and the technology is primarily employed in areas where trucking snow is not geographically or economically feasible. [ 1 ]

7. Why salt melts ice — and how to use it on your sidewalk - AOL

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   Salt grains, used for melting ice and snow, seen on an icy sidewalk. (Getty Images) (Dima Berlin via Getty Images) Ice has a semi-liquid surface layer; When you mix salt onto that layer, it slowly ...