SNOW REMOVAL SERVICES

We offer roof snow removal services for your home or business. Call us during the warmer months to inspect and repair weak points in your roofing.

Don’t hire your neighborhood kids to remove rooftop snow and ice for you. Not only do they risk falling, but those untrained in snow removal may seriously damage your roofing material.

Why Remove Snow from your Roof?

Snow is heavy, especially when wet, as it was this winter. A weakly supported roof can cave quickly under the immense weight of snow buildup, flooding your kitchen or living room with cold, melting slush, ruining antiques and family photos, not to mention your home. And to have a roof come down over your head, or that of your family, can be deadly.

Even if a snowy roof does not cave-in, snow can still melt, creating a troublesome situation. Sunny skies and heat from your home can warm snow on your roof, causing ice damming, sliding, and falling snow. These things lead to water intrusion, which will damage the interior of your home if gone unchecked. When snow melts, water often trickles through cracks in your roof. Water damage can cause ceilings, infrastructure, and roofs to warp or rot. The ugly brown stains throughout your home are a tell-tale sign of water damage, and an immediate signal that you must remove snow from your roof.

What Causes Ice Dams?

An ice dam is a ridge of ice that forms at the edge of a roof and prevents melting snow from draining off of the roof. The water that backs up behind the damn can leak into a home and cause damage to walls, ceilings, insulation and other parts of the house-causing significant damage to your property.

How ice dams form on your roof:

1. Indoor heating rises through the ceiling into the attic and warms the roof surface.
2. Snow of the heated part of the roof melts and flows down until it reaches that part of the roof that is below 32 degrees. Water freezes into an ice dam.
3. The dam grows as it is fed by melting snow above, but water held by the dam backs up and stays liquid.
4. Eventually, the water finds cracks in the roof covering and flows into the attic, from where it could seem through the ceiling and the interior walls.