Ice Dams are extremely damaging to your home. At least they will damage your gutter and shingles, but the real damage is when they back up water into your home causing 10's of thousands in water damage.

Ice dam can cause very long term damage by exposing the roof and interior walls of your home to long term water. These slow or fast onset of water can cause flooding or even worse rotting of the beams or mold behind the walls.

Our highly experienced techs use the only low pressure high heat steam to gently cut the blocks of ice off of your roof. Our system is specifically designed just for steaming roofs. This process will not damage the roof or home in any way at all. Once we have removed all the ice from the gutters and roof we can then assess the situation. It may just be that the gutters need to be cleaned and flushed. If need be we can fix the gutter so they drain properly or remove the gutters if needed.

What Is Ice Dam Steaming?

We get asked all the time “what is ice dam steaming?” Ice dam steaming is the process of converting cold water into gentle low pressure steam and directing the spray of steam through a special nozzle to melt through and underneath the ice dam to remove it from the roof and gutters. Ice dam steaming is the safest and fastest way to remove ice dams from any roof. Ice dam steaming is the gentlest solution for properties with a roof leak. Low pressure ice dam steaming is the method most preferred nationwide by roofing manufacturers and insurance companies. Why, because low pressure steam cannot cut through roofing materials like a hot pressure washer and will not cause future damage. At the very minimum a pressure washer will remove granules from the shingle and cause premature roof failure, and shorten the life of the shingle.

Ice dam steaming is the safest way to remove ice dams from your roof. It is never ever recommended to use a pressure washer or blunt force objects on roofs. Hot pressure washers cannot produce steam and do not run low enough pressure to be safe. Pressurized water has the ability to cut materials and steam does not. Everyone considering hiring someone for this service should learn how to distinguish between low pressure ice dam steaming equipment and a hot pressure washer.

Pounding, hammers, chisels, chemicals, salt and pressure washers will often cause damage to shingles and roofs, and are best suited for melting ice from sidewalks and parking lots. Using high temperature water that flashes into gentle steam in a pattern that quickly cuts solid ice, professional ice dam removal equipment provides effective ice dam melting results that are safer for homes and businesses.

Three things that you should look for to ensure the company doing the ice dam removal is using correct equipment.

• A low pressure steamer should never have a trigger on the gun!
• A low pressure steamer will never need to be connected to hot water!
• A low pressure steamer should never have a colored plastic tip on thegun!