While safely on the ground toss a roofmelt tablet onto the roof.
Roof melt pucks review.
Water drains from the roof to the ground.
The roofmelt and water mixture begin to melt away from the bottom up the existing ice dam.
They do not work.
Today kids i m going to show you how to unfuck your roof from ice dams if salt pucks are not available or you have a very delicate roof situation.
One issue is that their lightweight nature makes it easier for them to get blown off a roof.
While safely on the ground toss a roofmelt tablet onto the roof.
They do not work as well as the sock and can easily be blown off the roof.
I hope this helps.
Salt pucks are supposed to eliminate the need to climb onto your roof and are designed to melt snow and ice before ice dams can form.
Another complaint users have is that they melt around themselves instead of creating a wide path for water to escape as an ice melt sock does.
I have used several buckets of these ice melt pucks.
This water mixture will then drain down the roof to the ice dam and work its way through to the gutter or edge of the roof creating a tiny path for water to drain away.
They are very expensive and don t work.
We put these as 9 because they are not very effective.
They will melt some of the snow and dissolve in the liquid created from this melting.
This product is the same as ice melting socks above.
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Here are four reasons salt pucks are bad for your roof.
There are mixed reviews about ice melting pucks on sites like amazon and among home improvement experts.
You toss these pucks on the roof behind the ice dam.
It is made from calcium chloride and is sold online or at home improvement stores.
They melt a small hole straight through the ice where they are sitting and that is where they stay without melting the snow or ice off the roof.
The roofmelt ice melt is designed to eliminate the need to climb onto roofs while melt snow.
We use this when doing snow removal and it works great.
The roofmelt tablet then melts it s way down and settles on the roofs surface.
They work effectively in temperatures down to 25 f.
The tablets help prevent roof damage by melting through ice dams and allowing water to drain safely.
It comes in smaller granulated pieces so it s easy to spread on various areas whereas roof melt comes in large tablets.