Easy Heat ADKS-300 60-Foot Roof Snow De-Icing Kit
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In the event that it started snowing, ours was immediately plugged in. Also, we have an automatic thermostat control at the outlet that turns the heat tape on when it is 35 degrees and turns it off when it is
Any length has a very low draw
If you are running the cable through a wall or other obstruction, you may need more clips
Make sure the water pipes are wrapped in the winter to prevent them from freezing.
Selected User Reviews For Easy Heat ADKS-300 60-Foot Roof Snow De-Icing Kit
The roofer that I hired thought he fixed the roof and told me I did not need snowmelt/icemelt, but this past winter there was a leak in between my log home roof and the new construction roof. It ended up being necessary for my cleaner to put in empty buckets to collect all the water that was drip-dripping inside the house. As I had been using him for many years in the past, I doubted making the change to him after the roof was completed. I chose a name that I could trust and got the roof installed in no time at all and they are very durable.
In our garage's north roof, which is prone to ice dams, I installed two of the 100ft length boxes per the recommended spacing, using two different electrical circuits so that each was on a separate circuit and switch. We installed each sensor with a sensor and configured additional small cords that allow us to monitor the other sensors The outlets feeding each circuit are fitted with timers to be used with the sensors. What's the reason? I did this because sometimes I wanted to override the sensors to keep the heaters on all night to speed up melting when the sensors normally would not activate when temperature and moisture criteria did not apply. I also added some security additions to the roof heater cords during the last system installation last summer at the apex of each triangle, and along the eaves where the clips were attached for the heater wires (this is where the heater wires change direction i. e. Apex of the heater cable triangles). There were a couple of small neoprene and metal washers added to the clips to provide security. It is my honor to preside A heavy wet snowfall has not compromised any of the systems because they were designed and tested first off roof. None have penetrated and they have held remarkably well even after all that. During the freeze and thaw cycles and melting of ice and snow, I didn't want any clips to move down. Generally, I feel that this product and system is fine. Other systems are far more expensive, but I wonder how much more benefit they serve in comparison to this one.
So I need things that would work well for snow. Winters in New England can be long and snowy, so we can't go without this bad boy- We are loading. Their presence would have been much more valuable if I had discovered This is something that I own quite a bit of. I keep some of them permanently attached (this is easy to do if you have a shingled roof) and keep others loose so that I can wrap them around icebergs that form on some of my roofs. In the permanent placements, I am concerned with the valleys of my roof and the sides of a steeply sloping roof that I am afraid to walk on. Utilize a roof rake in an efficient manner by staying aware of the lines. Whenever I roll the boulder off of an iceberg, I wrap the cord around the bottom, allowing the heat from the cord to melt the ice away from the roof. After that, I use pure strength to roll the boulder. During one of the recent winters, we received 6 feet of snow in one night, so don't think that I am neglecting my roof and thus the boulders. A word of caution. We have to pay a lot of money for electric bills during the winter because they hog the energy. save a lot of money on my power bill by using thermostat plugs that turn on at 32 degrees and off at 45 degrees. In other words, this The size you choose should fit the space you have. Do not get an extra line just because you would like to have a lot of room. They are more expensive to use the bigger they are. You'd want to test them every year so that you're not caught by a big snowfall whose snow removal system has failed. Do not snatch or pull the cables, and do not snatch at them.
Compared to what I expected, I found it to be very easy to install the cable It took me about 20 minutes to complete! The cable functions as it should after our first snowfall a few days ago (about 6 inches on December 19) and I demonstrated it to my wife. So far, it has done a great job of keeping the snow away from the roof's edge and will prevent me from getting an ice dam. My wife and I should have bought one years ago. We were very pleased with how easy it was to install and how well it melts My purchase was successfully delivered to me by Champion Values. They sent it quickly and packaged This is a great product that I would recommend.
Frost King is the better choice. The polar vortex temperature we are experiencing here in northern Illinois has created the conditions for using it for several weeks straight. I have plugged it in with an extension cord. This cable failed after 1 year, it no longer turns on at all. There are no icicles at all. Purchase not to be made.
As I didn't want to clip anything to the shingles, I didn't use the clips that came with the kit. With the help of roofing cement, I was able to attach a different clip between the shingles. Cool temperatures meant that it took a while to cure, so no real force was here. Installing the cable was not difficult I was worried it would be difficult getting it into the down spout, but it was really not a big deal. It's very easy to fit the cable spacer clips, just slip them on and squeeze tight with your fingers. Then I made a loop and tapped the spacers on to secure the cable, and then it slid into place For the side of the house I made a triple run in the gutter which helped to cover the area nicely. Compared to the results on the front side, the reverse side has a double run. On the outside, the triple gutter run is quite impressive. We also installed mechanical timers instead of the automatic timers, which will run a few hours a day on the north side of our Using the math at home, where I live, I have 160 feet of cable installed, which works out to about a 10 cent per hour cost. It is impossible to test this system yet, since there is no snow to test it against.
In spite of the product's good reviews for the strength of the cable and hooks and the size of the cable as well, the hooks were very weak and most were ripped off in the first snowfall. There is now much of the cable dangling off the roof and the rest is wedged beneath the snow or ice As we are heating the air with the dangling cable, and attempting to dent the snow on the roof with the cable still stuck underneath the snow, I am trying to make a dent in it. I guess it's all good. In the next few months.
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