Snow On Roof Deck

Less snow will accumulate on a slippery roof it will slide off instead.

Snow on roof deck.

Several feet of heavy compact roof snow thrown on top of an already snow covered deck can severely damage it whether you throw it onto the deck or mother throws it on. There s been confusion about how to address snow load and live load on decks for a while. Sno shield offers snow roof systems used on metal slate shingle and wood roofs. Ideal for commercial grade projects snow seal is up to 400 elastomeric to move with your roof and resist cracking.

Slipperiness of the roof. We recommend installing a deicing system on the roof below to allow this melted snow and ice to continue to flow off of the roof. It also brought us a new warning. While it s tempting to remove large piles of snow to protect your deck from moisture regular snow shoveling may do your deck more harm than good.

Request a free online quote today. Plastic or composite deck boards aren t damaged by water. The roof deck collects the snow load and transfers the weight to the rafters. Snow seal is a highly elastomeric coating that is durable and adheres to metal tar granulated rolled roofing aluminum and many different types of roofing systems.

Also known as pipe style snow guard it is a continuous single double or triple bar snow fence used to keep snow and ice from sliding off the roof. A quality deck and roof. If your roof is located in windswept areas or even north of the treeline the wind will cause snow drifting making less of it accumulate on your roof. Some code officials engineers and contractors have added the two loads together when designing decks and others have just done as you suggest basing the calculations on the larger of the two loads either snow load or live load.

For any rafter the portion of the roof deck that transfers this load is the tributary area. And while it s possible for wood to rot or warp your deck is made of cured and treated lumber designed specifically to combat these problems. So if you envision 6 of snow consider the load when it rains and that snow absorbs all that rain water. Do not dump snow from a roof onto your deck.

Our safe and unique low pressure process will safely protect your home s exterior from the harsh effects of the weather while at the same time making it beautiful again. It extends outward in both. If an open wood or composite deck has melted snow and ice running down and onto the roof beneath you can end up with damaging ice build up. Remember what your high school physics teacher said about the force of falling objects.