Gutter Heat Wire Wet

Helmet heat by gutter helmet is an exclusive self regulating heating cable designed to keep ice and snow from building up around the edges of your roof.

Gutter heat wire wet. Heat cables for roofs and gutters have widely varying price points primarily depending on the length of the cable. Temperatures drop below freezing and the snow melt refreezes causing an ice dam. A heating wire uses controls that won t overheat or run up your electric bill to heat the inside of gutters during cold and freezing weather. How to choose a heated gutter system.

Roof clip bracket kits used to secure wintergard wet trace heating cables in roof and gutter de icing applications. Grip clip heat tape pro for ice dam prevention heavy duty self regulating plug in ready heat cable 120v 6 watts ft 75 feet 10 foot cold lead 4 6 out of 5 stars 166 265 60 265. Gutter heaters mean you can flick a switch and forget about the snow fall. As you can see ice dams are an internal heat loss.

How it works helmet heat reduces ice dams by melting snow before it has a chance to accumulate at your roof eaves and affect the flow of water through your gutters and downspouts. The least expensive way to go is a very simple system where a heat cable is applied to your gutters and then is run down the downspouts of your home preferably near an outlet. Snow begins to melt from solar heat and heat loss from your home melted snow runs down to the surface of the roof settling along overhands and gutter lines. Because the gutter is warm runoff will not reform into ice instead it will flow out the downspout and away from your home helping you avoid any backups and leaks in your basement or at the base of your foundation.

Raychem 6 watt wintergard wet heating cables 120v or 240v pipe freeze protection or roof gutter de icing. Gutter heaters don t prevent ice dams. Each kit provides materials for one splice or one tee and one end seal. Wintergard splice and tee connection.

Which system do you chose. A splice and tee kit available for use with all wintergard heating cables. Homeowners may think that zig zag cables which may also be known as heat tape for gutters on the roof and gutters are effective at preventing ice dams however this is not the case. This allows you to fairly compare prices of an 80 foot cable with a 90 foot cable.

Heated gutters are extremely ineffective at fighting against ice dams in cold and snowy climates.