Roof Drain Freeze Protection

Helmet heat is wired throughout your gutters and downspouts.

Roof drain freeze protection.

Helmet heat is a self regulating heating system that melts the snow and ice before it can form into damaging mounds weighing down on your roof gutters and downspouts. It provides positive non freeze protection and features an integral vacuum breaker. Smith 5609qt quarter turn non freeze wall hydrant with exposed hose connection for installation in the interior or exterior building walls where an exposed hose connection is acceptable. You can salt your roof but you ll have to do it often as rock salt melts fast.

The hmt pivot master floating roof drain system is designed to innovatively provide a better solution to floating roof drainage problems. No more frozen drain pipe at home cottage cabin farm with heat line pipe warmer trace heating solutions. Introduced in 1982 this system combines the flexibility of the various flexible hose pipe systems with the strength found in rigid pipe swivel joint systems. When pipes freeze and burst during the winter it can lead to costly repairs and interrupted water supply.

Guttermelt sr cables produce wattages of 5 9 12 and up to 24 watts per foot at 32 f in snow and ice these cables provide reliable freeze protection while carrying an industry leading 10 year warranty. It might help to use a plastic shovel to get rid of snow around the roof drain before salting around the drain box. Avoid salt with oxidizing agents in it. Building drains can also freeze and break including fixture traps and building drains.

Even if the building water supply piping has not frozen a drain line can freeze. Protect pipes from freezing by installing a reliable pipe heating system ensuring a long term solution to protect your home. With it snow melts before it hits the eaves of your roof and water flows down your heated gutters and downspouts. Make sure to put the salt only around the drain as the salt can do damage to your roof.

Heat line provides electrical heat tracing and heating cable solutions that are fully certified and suitable for installation in multiple freeze protection applications including new existing residential water supply pipes new existing municipal water supply pipes sump pump lines drilled dug wells small large diameter drain pipes sewage septic pipes and drains small large diameter culverts metal non metal tanks and vessels and roof de icing. Heat line has your solution for reliable water pipe freeze protection or roof and gutter heat tracing and more applications such as frozen sewer pipes.