Simply put and ice melt system heats your gutters keeping that water from refreezing and causing mounds of ice.
Torch to melt ice in gutters.
In many cases this is an extremely simple and cost effective solution that can help prevent costly water damage to your home.
Some gutters have seams in them that could possibly split apart and wreck your gutters they say using a blowtorch to melt away ice is actually burning more of a hole in your pocket.
The calcium chloride will eventually melt through the snow and ice and create a channel for water to flow down into the gutters or off the roof.
That is unless you have some ice dam removal skills.
Running a heat cable through your open gutter system.
The versatile design adapts to most roof and gutter configurations.
An ice dam is a wall o f ice that forms at the edge of the roof usually at the gutters or soffit.
I m talking about ice dams something that more suitably should have been called ice damns because they pretty much damn your roof to hell.
This roof de icing cable is not intended for use as a snow melting system to clear roof of ice and snow.
If necessary use a long handled garden rake or hoe to push it into position.