The tablets help prevent roof damage by melting through ice dams and allowing water to drain safely.
Roof ice melt socks.
1 a few pairs of nylon stockings.
Instead fill long socks.
The problem is that the calcium chloride in the sock completely melts overnight and the sock is now frozen to the roof and can t be removed.
More recently companies began selling ice melting pucks.
Ice melting socks are made using nylon socks or stockings preferably thicker fabric winter nylon socks.
2 a bucket bag of calcium chloride ice melt.
These products are specifically designed to be thrown up on roofs to melt ice in hard to reach places.
Filled with calcium chloride the sock melted ice and did create a channel for water to drain which was good.
While safely on the ground toss a roofmelt tablet onto the roof.
These nylon stockings are filled with calcium chloride ice melt rock salt tied at.
The problem is that the calcium chloride in the sock completely melts overnight and the sock is now frozen to the roof and can t be removed.
If you put another sock on top if it all is melted andbyouncan remove sock one.
If you put another sock on top if it all is melted andbyouncan remove sock one.
That path would then presumably be used as an escape route for water that may tend to get trapped behind the ice dam.
Salt socks work on the principle that the ice melting compound is contained in a linear form which when laid across an ice dam will melt a channel through the ice.
Calcium chloride is the same stuff used for melting ice on driveways and sidewalks but don t just sprinkle it on the ice dam.
The roofmelt ice melt is designed to eliminate the need to climb onto roofs while melt snow.
One of the more popular ways is to toss a throwable ice melting puck onto the roof.
They work effectively in temperatures down to 25 f.
Here is what you will need.
Melt the ice dam with calcium chloride socks.