How To Get Snow Off Your Roof In A Snowstorm

With your roof rake in hand get a firm footing on the ground and work your way around the house.

How to get snow off your roof in a snowstorm.

Once you have your roof rake priority 1 is using it to clear the snow off your overhangs which are the areas most prone to ice dam formation. To prevent damage for most roofs you ll want to limit snow accumulation to 12 twelve inches or less. Do not remove all of the snow you should leave 2 inches of snow on the roof to protect it from damage. If you re looking to prevent them don t let more than 6 six inches of snow build up on your roof and remove old accumulation before new snow falls.

If you have a pitched roof. I would say try to get the bottom three feet off. Even if you clear the snow off of no other areas of your roof make sure to clear the overhangs. If a snowstorm just dumped about 9 inches of heavy snow on your roof the equation to determine snow load is 9 x 1 25.

A snow rake will remove snow from the eaves and as far up the roof as you can reach with the rake helping to prevent ice damming one of the biggest problems caused by a snowy roof. They do make rake shovels that are telescopic and you can get one at the hardware store probably mclean said. According to our math in this example your roof is probably doing just fine. That works out to be 11 25 pounds per square foot.