These products are specifically designed to be thrown up on roofs to melt ice in hard to reach places.
Roof ice melt pucks.
People have been making their own ice melt socks out of nylon socks and calcium chloride for a long time.
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.
The roof melt ice melt is designed to eliminate the need to climb onto roofs while melt snow.
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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.
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.
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It is made from calcium chloride and is sold online or at home improvement stores.
The tablets help prevent roof damage by melting through ice dams and allowing water to drain safely.
But are they doing more harm than good.
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One of the more popular ways is to toss a throwable ice melting puck onto the roof.
We put these as 9 because they are not very effective.
They work effectively in temperatures down to 25 degree fahrenheit.
They work effectively in temperatures down to 25 f.
More recently companies began selling ice melting pucks.
Most salt pucks use calcium chloride to melt ice which can cause numerous issues down the line.
Here are four reasons salt pucks are bad for your roof.
The tablets help prevent roof damage by melting through ice dams and allowing water to drain safely.
The roofmelt ice melt is designed to eliminate the need to climb onto roofs while melt snow.