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Should You Remove Snow From Your Roof Or Not?

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So, do you really have to remove snow from the roof of your log home?

Do some roofs fare better with the snow than others? For example: metal roofs vs shingle roofs.

You may think those icicles hanging from your roof are pretty but they are actually a symptom of a potentially damaging problem for your home. As snow melts from you roof either by the sun or heat escaping from the home it tends to refreeze at the edges and other juncture points of your roof. The refreezing of water has a damming effect creating an even bigger ice dam behind it. Continuous feeding of the ice dam by melting and refreezing snow melt can cause significant damage to the roof and well as interior of the home. Source

Following are a few things to think about when it comes to removing snow from the roof of your log cabin or home…

 

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