Roof Drain Freeze Protection

With it snow melts before it hits the eaves of your roof and water flows down your heated 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. The hmt pivot master floating roof drain system is designed to innovatively provide a better solution to floating roof drainage problems. Guttermelt is a great choice for either residential commercial or industrial projects. Avoid salt with oxidizing agents in it.

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. 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. Make sure to put the salt only around the drain as the salt can do damage to your roof. You can salt your roof but you ll have to do it often as rock salt melts fast.

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. No more frozen drain pipe at home cottage cabin farm with heat line pipe warmer trace heating solutions. It might help to use a plastic shovel to get rid of snow around the roof drain before salting around the drain box. Building drains can freeze inside the building and even outside a drain line that is not below the frost line can easily freeze in some conditions which we outline below.

Helmet heat is wired throughout your gutters and downspouts. 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. It provides positive non freeze protection and features an integral vacuum breaker. Even if the building water supply piping has not frozen a drain line can freeze.

Building drains can also freeze and break including fixture traps and building drains. 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.