It comes in smaller granulated pieces so it s easy to spread on various areas whereas roof melt comes in large tablets.
Roof melt pucks review.
The tablets help prevent roof damage by melting through ice dams and allowing water to drain safely.
It is made from calcium chloride and is sold online or at home improvement stores.
They work effectively in temperatures down to 25 f.
Here are four reasons salt pucks are bad for your roof.
They do not work as well as the sock and can easily be blown off the roof.
They will melt some of the snow and dissolve in the liquid created from this melting.
While safely on the ground toss a roofmelt tablet onto the roof.
One issue is that their lightweight nature makes it easier for them to get blown off a roof.
Roofmelt begins to work when it comes into contact with snow and ice.
They are very expensive and don t work.
You toss these pucks on the roof behind the ice dam.
Salt pucks are supposed to eliminate the need to climb onto your roof and are designed to melt snow and ice before ice dams can form.
We put these as 9 because they are not very effective.
This product is the same as ice melting socks above.
This water mixture will then drain down the roof to the ice dam and work its way through to the gutter or edge of the roof creating a tiny path for water to drain away.
They do not work.
While safely on the ground toss a roofmelt tablet onto the roof.
We use this when doing snow removal and it works great.
Another complaint users have is that they melt around themselves instead of creating a wide path for water to escape as an ice melt sock does.
Most salt pucks use calcium chloride to melt ice which can cause numerous issues down the line.
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I hope this helps.
Today kids i m going to show you how to unfuck your roof from ice dams if salt pucks are not available or you have a very delicate roof situation.
There are mixed reviews about ice melting pucks on sites like amazon and among home improvement experts.
Water drains from the roof to the ground.
I have used several buckets of these ice melt pucks.
The roofmelt tablet then melts it s way down and settles on the roofs surface.
The roofmelt and water mixture begin to melt away from the bottom up the existing ice dam.