Easy Heat ADKS-300 60-Foot Roof Snow De-Icing Kit

For our garage's north roof prone to ice dams, I installed two of the 100ft length boxes per the recommended spacings using two different electrical circuits so that each was on a separate circuit and switches. Installed each one with its own sensor and configured additional small cords that allow non-sensor use with standard timers plugged into the outlets feeding each circuit. Why? Because sometimes I wanted to override the sensors to keep the heaters on all night to speed up melting when the sensors would normally not activate when temp and moisture criteria were not present. A neat trick I did was to also add during the system installation last summer, some security additions to the roof heater cords at the apex of each triangle and along the eaves where the clips were attached for the heater wires (this is where the heater wires change direction ie. the bottom apex of the heater cords triangles) . The security additions amounted to adding some small neoprene metal washers sandwiched into the provided clips. I pre-drilled small holes into the provided roof clips to allow a small neoprene hex head bolt to pass through the clip (ie the folded over part above the hook holding the heater cord) and the sandwiched neoprene washers and be driven into the 5/8" plywood decking without penetrating completely. All this was carefully designed and tested first off roof to make sure of the result. None penetrated and are holding magnificently despite some heavy wet snows. I didn't want any clips getting moved down by the freeze/thaw cycles and melting ice and snow. As far as I'm concerned, this product and system is fine. Other systems are many times more expensive but I wonder how much more beneficial for their high cost.

I live at 7800 feet in the mountains of Colorado. This bad baby is a must have for our long winters and heavy snow-load. I wish I would have found them sooner! I have a few of these. Some are permanently placed (easily done with the clips included in the kit if you have a shingled roof) and some I keep free floating to wrap around the icebergs that form on some parts of my roof. For the permenent placements I focus on the valleys of my roof and the edges of a steeply sloping roof that I cannot walk on without fear of falling. Be aware of the lines when using a roof rake. For the icebergs, I wrap the cord around the bottoms until the heat from the cord cuts the ice away from the roof then I use pure man power to roll the boulder off the roof. One recent winter we had 6 feet in one night so don't think that I have been neglecting my roof and thus the boulders :) One caveat... they hog the energy so our electric bill skyrockets in the winter. I use the temperture plugs that turn on at 32 degrees and off at 45 degrees to cut down on the power bill. This means... get a size that will work for your space. Don't get a big one just because you would like to have some extra line on hand... the bigger it is the more costly they are to use. Also, test them every year, its not good to have a big snow and realize that one of them isnt working. Be gentle with the cables, no snatching or pulling.

I have never written a review about anything before but after using this product I felt compelled to. I did NOT use this product as intended, but tried it to melt ice on a concrete floor in an outbuilding I was planning on using. After laying all the 60' of cable on the floor in a back-and-forth pattern I then plugged it in to my generator (this building is located in the woods and has no electricity). After one day (about 7 hours of run time) the cable had melted almost all the way thorough 5" of solid ice. After two days, it had gone all the way through and had melted some under the blocks formed so that I could pry some of the blocks up. What I could not get during this try, I laid the cable out again in a closer pattern and repeated the process for two days. After this try, the blocks of ice came up as I was pulling the cord off the floor. What would have been much arduous work chipping ice off a floor was a breeze to complete. This product will be an important tool for future projects like this!

I have the cables installed. I actually did not use the clips that came with the kit as I didn't want to clip anything to the shingles. I bought a different clip that I was able to adhere between the shingles with roofing cement. No real force here, took some time to cure because of cool temperatures. Cable was very easy to install, I thought getting it in the down spout would be challenging, but piece of cake. I really like the cable spacer clips, they slip right on and squeeze tight with your fingers, made a loop and secured with spacers and down it went right around the bend. On the side of the house I had extra so triple run in the gutter which gave nice coverage. The back side has a double run, so I can compare the results. Visually the triple gutter run is impressive. I also have installed mechanical timers instead of the automatic timers, just going to run a few hours a day on the north side of the house. Doing the math, where I live, in total I have 160 feet of cable installed which works out to be a cost of about 10 cents per hour. See how this system works, but unreal, no test snow yet.

I thought my roofer fixed the roof and told me I didn’t need the snowmelt/icemelt but lo and behold this past winter I had a leak in between my log home roof A new wall construction roof . My cleaner had to put in empty buckets to collect all the water that was just dripping inside the house so . I went back with a name that I could trust and used before and installed a new time at all and they are very durable have used him for many years in the past just thought I got away from him after the roof was done.