Winter came early this year and so did the damage from icicles, Ice Dams and the extended length it sat on your roofs edge, inside your gutters and downspouts. Damaging ice dams typically begin within 10 days of sustained below freezing temperatures. Your roof functions similarly to a mountain, where water flows down its slope… Read more »
Category: How Winter Weather Destroys Your Roof & Gutter System
Ice Dams: How are they Formed and How to Defeat Them
Over the last several years our winters in the West Michigan and Northern Indiana areas have brought the issue of damaging ice dams front and center. Most homeowners really don’t pay much attention at all to the ice and snow on their roof until there is an interior leak or icicles prevent entry into their… Read more »
Coloma Michigan Roof, Heat Deflector Insulation, Gutter Topper with the Heated Ice Release System Project
Location: 5235 Weatherly Road Coloma MI 49038 Products Installed: CertainTeed NorthGate Lifetime Warranty Weathered Wood Shingles, Heat Deflector Insulation, Gutter Topper with the Heated Ice Release System Dennison Exterior Solutions & Gutter Topper as roofing contractors in Coloma Michigan were hired several years ago to install a new roof with Heat Deflector Insulation while removing… Read more »
Granger Indiana Roof & Gutter Topper Project
Location: 51554 Buckingham Court Granger IN 46530 Products Installed: CertainTeed NorthGate Weathered Wood Lifetime Warranty Shingles with Lifetime Warranty Light Bronze Gutter Topper Dennison Exterior Solutions & Gutter Topper as roofing contractors in Granger Indiana were hired to replace the existing roof and gutter covers. Ventilation issues caused the roof to deteriorate over the span… Read more »
Ice Dams & Failed Removal Tactics
For a detailed analysis of Ice Dams and how to remove and defeat them follow these links: Ice Dams & Failed Removal Tactics
How to Protect your Home from the Ravages of the Winter Months
Using our 41 years of family experience in the residential roofing business Dennison Exterior Solutions & Gutter Topper can help you protect your home for the damaging effects of ice buildup in your gutters and at the eave edges of your not to mention behind chimneys and along walls where lowers roofs intersect with 2nd… Read more »
How the Gutter Topper gutter cover Can Help Defeat Ice Dams
Since the mid to late 1990’s we have been using the solid aluminum Gutter Topper© gutter guard system to not only keep the debris out of our customers gutters but also to stop the damaging affects of ice moving down the roof and piling up inside the gutters preventing the melted water from flowing off… Read more »
Ice Dams – Insulation
In our last series of blogs we discussed how heat loss from inside your home escapes through your existing insulation, warms the air inside your attic between the insulation and the roof’s decking, transfers that warmth through to the shingles, melts the snow which drains to the unheated over-hang area which refreezes and creates ice… Read more »
Ice Dams and Proper Ventilation
I have always said that you can not defeat Mother Nature however, we can mitigate the damage from excessive heat buildup in the attic during the summer months and the damaging affects caused by moisture and heat loss in our attics that creates and helps feed the ice buildup at our roof”s eave edges during… Read more »
Ice Dams – Failed Mitigation Tactics during the Winter Months
As we discussed in our last Blog homeowners really don’t pay much attention at all to the ice and snow on their roof until there is an interior leak or icicles prevent entry into their home. Or, the media fans the flames of fear of the false potential of roofs collapsing under the weight of… Read more »