HotEdge: Roof Ice Melt System - Ramelli Building & Remodeling, LLC

Hot Edge: Roof Ice Melt System is designed to eliminate costly ice dams that cause damage to the interior of your home, business or school.

Visit HotEdge: Roof Ice Melt System or call Ramelli Building & Remodeling, LLC @ 203 741 0005 for more details

Ice Dams / Insurance Claims

Obviously we here in New England are dealing with ice dams unlike recent history.  We have been receiving many calls from homeowners that have ice dams that are pushing water into their home.  Insurance companies will cover the cost of removing the ice dams and snow from your roof if it is causing leakage.

Insurance will also cover the cost (minus your deductible) to remove wet drywall, flooring, etc and dry your home to acceptable mositure standards and pay to put your home back in pre loss condition.

One of the ways Ramelli Building & Remodeling  is dealing with ice dams is to disconnect the down spouts from the gutters so that the melting ice can drain out....otherwise you end up repeating the pattern of thaw/freeze/thaw because the melted water has nowhere to go since your down spouts are probably buried in 3 feet of snow.

As you try and chip the ice out of the gutters damage to the gutters may occur and sometimes the gutters will be torn away from the house possibly causing more damage.  Disconnecting the down spouts (even if you damage the them) is much less costly and helps solve the problem less invasively.  The snow can be removed and ice melt can be applied to stubborn ice and the melting ice can drain out.

If you have an ice dam problem and/or water damage call us @ 203 741 0005.  Ramelli Building & Remodeling can assist you with your insurance claim and get your house back to normal!

Roof Replacement

During a rear porch conversion, it became apparent that finishing a room under a roof that has had water issues was not a great idea.  The homeowners had plans of replacing the whole roof next year.  We offered to just replace the roof slopes connected to the rear porch so that we could all be assured that their new room would face ice damming and leak issues.

Hopefully, the homeowners will hire us back next year to complete the roof.  But, in any case we feel good about our decision to save the homeowners some money this year (by only replacing some of the roof) and make sure that the new room has a new roof overhead.

Our roofing system uses ice and water shield on the eaves, rakes and valleys.  Ice and water has a sticky backing that adheres to the roof sheathing and seals around the nails that secure the shingles.  Its main job is to protect against ice dams and wind driven rain.

We also include a synthetic underlayment as opposed to tar paper.  The synthetic underlayment weighs less (good for your roof) and helps keep the roof and thus attic cooler - this prolongs the shingle life.  It is also resistant to any mold or mildew growth as well as protects against moisture making it to the roof sheathing.

The ice and water should overlap the drip edge (the bottom metal strip), but be installed under the rake edge (the metal going up the sides).  The rake edge metal then gets installed over the ice and water and synthetic underlayment.  This way any wind driven rain that gets under the shingles from the side will channel down the underlayment (not in contact with the roof sheathing) and drain out the bottom over the drip edge into the gutter.

See the photos to the right.  The top photo shows the ice and water installed on the eaves (bottom of roof) and up the valley.  At the very bottom you can see the white drip edge that the ice and water overlaps.  The bottom photo shows the synthetic underlayment under the rake edge metal (the white showing at the edge of the roof) and overlapped per the manufacturers instructions to shed water all the way down the roof.

Coming up next will be photos of the roof replacement from start to finish