Preventing Ice Dams in Winter Park Colorado with Heat Trace

The log home in the picture below is located in the Winter Park area of the Colorado Rocky Mountains at about 8,000 feet in elevation. In a normal winter season Winter Park, CO receives over 300” of snow. The 2022-2023 winter is no normal winter. They already received that amount at the beginning of March and still have two of the snowiest months yet to come. The owners of this home contacted Heat Trace Specialists during their first winter in the home after it was built in 2018-2019. They had severe ice damming issues that were causing leaks in their new roof (as you can see from the before picture from the winter of 2019).

We designed a system to mitigate the damming and keep things flowing down the roof instead of being pushed back up by the dams. This is their third winter with the system and they have not had any leaks since it was installed. As you can see from the after photo taken March 6, 2023, even with a record snow fall like we are having this year the system is still performing well. As designed, the system has mitigated the forming of a dam along the eave and valley.

You can depend on the professionals at Heat Trace Specialists to design and supply the materials need to address your ice damming issues. Contact us today at (877) 244-1055 or fill out our form and someone will get back to you.!