Protect Your Business Against Ice Dams

2/3/2021 (Permalink)

Ice dams occur when indoor heating rises throughout your home, warming your roof. Ice and snow on the warmer portion of the roof melts and trickles downward until it hits the colder part of your roof, where it refreezes.Heading off ice before it can dam is the best way to keep your roof safe in the winter. The best way to do this is to keep areas like your roof, attic, and eaves a steady temperature. This prevents snow from melting and refreezing into heavy ice at the edges of your roof. This can be achieved by doing some or all of the following steps.

• Make sure that the top floor of your business is sufficiently insulated.  If your business has an attic or storage space, maintain proper insulation there as well.
• Make sure that the areas directly exposed to the elements are properly ventilated.
• Seal and insulate ducts, especially those that lead to exhausts near the roof.  These can affect temperature fluctuation, leading to ice that melts and refreezes in unwanted areas.

If you want to mitigate the risk of ice dams at your business, follow the above steps.  If damage has already occurred, call SERVPRO of Stamford.  We have decades of experience remediating damage from ice dams.  We can be reached 24/7 at 203.324.1642.