Frost On House Roof

And here s the clincher.

Frost on house roof.

On my roof some areas will have frost and others not. That warm air makes contact with the roof deck and warms it up. Frost king carries electric roof cables kits in lengths from 30 to 200 each powered by 120v with 7 watts per foot. Warm shingles don t allow frost to form as readily as cold shingles.

Ice dams are a common sight in northern new england winters and home partners has dealt with quite a few. If the morning sun directly hits your home and not your neighbors lack of frost may just be attributed to the sun s heat. It s that time of year when we occasionally have frost on our roof tops. That heat then conducts up all the way to the shingles.

It will put gutters and downspouts at risk too. However if nothing is different about your home compared to your neighbors you may have a problem. The booms that have been heard around the gta could be a result of a frost quake but it could be something else. An ice dam can damage both your roof and the inside of your home.

Once in the attic it warms the air over the living space. Something i implied above but didn t say explicitly is that when frost forms on the roof the roof is below freezing. An ice dam is a hump of ice that forms at the edge of a roof under certain wintertime conditions. A lack of frost can indicate that heat is leaking out through your attic space onto the roof and melting the frost.

Prevent ice dams this winter. In other words the sequence might be as follows. Help prevent roof damage by keeping gutters and downspouts flowing even in frigid below zero temperatures. Is the absence of frost an indication of heat loss thru the roof via poor insulation.

Thanks wayne 10 31.