Install Roof Ice-Melting Cables. Install electric ice-melting cables on the eaves. ... Use a rubber mallet to break out sections of ice along the edge of the roof. Do not pound on the gutter.

Ice dams can cause quite a bit of structural damage to your roof and gutters if not taken care of on time. Here's how to ...

With a warm roof, more water cascades, forming humongous icicles, 4 to 5 feet long with tree-trunk diameters. Those big ones are dangerous and often are very hard to break off. A cold roof will help.

Keep your roof free of snow and ice with snow rakes, roof shovels, and roof melt from Amazon, The Home Depot and Lowe's. It's key to ice dam prevention.

Snow dangerous: Those icicles on your roof are a sign of trouble. Here's what you can do Huge icicles hanging off your house can be a sign of an ice dam, and that can create roof leaks.

The winter mess this week has people shoveling and chipping driveways and walks but homeowners may want to look up at their roofs, too. Specialists say this is the time of year that huge, hanging ...

When a roof has an ice dam, water can find its way into imperfections in a roof. In roofs that don’t have a weather shield or have cracks or open nail holes, water can seep in and freeze, expand ...

Snow loads on roofs in the region are causing concern, but safety officials said ice forming on roofs can also be hazardous, potentially causing fires and forcing dangerous gases back into a home ...

An ice dam may extend from the gutter all the way up the roof on a house. You have to be really careful and know what you are doing when you’re trying to clear it, or you will slide right off.