Autumn is a beautiful time of year to enjoy the great outdoors as the temperature cools and the leaves begin to fall. However, those colorful leaves can cause serious problems for your home if you don’t carefully clean and maintain your gutters. Roof damage can occur when water backs up and can be particularly problematic as snow and ice come into the picture. This can lead to costly roof repairs … [Read more...]
Prevent Dangerous and Damaging Ice Dams
Icicles in the winter time...they look pretty and magical hanging from your house, but once you learn what kind of damage they can cause, they start looking pesky and problematic. Any kind of winter weather that allows for the formation of icicles creates the perfect conditions for the formation of an ice dam, a buildup of solid ice along your gutter line. What kind of damage can they … [Read more...]
Ice Dams
Ice dams can cause significant damage to your home. They are created for the most part by heat escaping upwards from your home into your attic. For ice dams to form there must be snow on the roof and at the same time higher sections of the roofs outside surface must be above 32 degrees◦Fahrenheit. The rising heat in the attic melts the snow off the roof. The melted water flows down the … [Read more...]
