Roof and Gutter Heating – Snow Melting Systems

Ready-to-Installation Roof Heating Systems for Snow and Ice Prevention; It is designed for heating roof systems of residential, commercial and industrial establishments. The main areas of use are to provide drainage, to prevent structural problems due to ice formation and to prevent unpredictable snow load problems.

Draining and Avoiding the Ice Barrier

• Ice barriers formed by the refreezing of the melting snow and the continuation of this cycle damage the roof and its components.
• The temperature difference between the heated (Hot Roof) and the unheated (Cold Roof) areas of the roof and the speed of freezing the melting snow of the cold roof are the main reasons for the ice barrier.
• The areas that are called cold roofs and where structural damage is most observed are gutters, rain landings and roof edges.
• Heating cables are used to provide drainage at certain intervals according to the width of areas such as gutters, creeks, and hidden gutters.
• Rain downpipes must be heated to evacuate ice melted in the gutter and to continue drainage. A blockage will adversely affect the performance of the system.
• In areas where snowfall rates are high and climatic conditions are harsh, it is recommended to make heating at the edges of the roof. It is especially used to increase the amount of heated area, to prevent snow accumulation, to prevent the water trying to reach the gutters by melting from the roof surface from turning into an ice barrier.
• Heatingx; It has many references with its full product range and many years of experience for gutter, rain fall and roof edge heating.
• You can work with Heatingx for drainage heating applications in residential, commercial buildings or industrial roofs.
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Roof Edge Snow Load Problems

• In our regions that receive heavy snowfall, basically two types of roofs experience snow accumulation problems.
• Roofs with high slopes, corrugated or not. Snow accumulated on such roofs can fall down in one go. This situation primarily endanger life safety, on the other hand, as we have repeatedly experienced especially in our eastern regions, the level differences in adjacent buildings create risky situations.
• The other roof edge snow load problem damages the gutter carrier systems in low-slope, corrugated structures.
• Heating cables can become inadequate during unusual snowstorms and longer than seasonal precipitation. It would be wrong to expect the heating system to completely melt 100cm of snow. The main objective of the heating application to be made on the roof edge; It will prevent the formation of icicles and ensure that the accumulated snow is broken into small pieces by melting at regular intervals.
• You can rely on the Heatingx snow retainers to ensure that the heating system is not inadequate in the face of heavy snowfalls. Thanks to the snow trap, you can prevent snow masses from falling down in risky areas. When used with the heating system; The snow trap will keep the snow load on the hot roof side, and the heating system will prevent snow accumulation on the cold roof side.
• With its UV resistant, overheating protection, metal armor and 20-year product life design, Isıx HMAX heating cables are the right choice for all roof surfaces, heat powers and technical specifications.
• Heatingx; It offers healthy solutions with its complete product range and automatic control units for roof heating projects of all sizes.
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Roof Surface Snow Load Problems

• As observed in the winter of 2022 (Gaziantep, Konya, Istanbul, etc.), the snow load has begun to bring serious problems in metal-constructed seam roof structures such as factory and hangar roofs.
• It is designed to solve the unpredictable snow load problems of low-slope, wide-span commercial buildings.
• Roof surface consists of mounting special accessories to sandwich panel clamp points and heating cables of certain density depending on the project.
• Snow load heating application on the roof surface is basically done in two disciplines.
• Making intense heating by determining risk areas (example: 350Watt per m2 – average 10-12 m cable usage)
• Heating the entire floor by reducing the cable density (example: 80Watt per m2 – approx. 2.5m cable usage)
• Both types of application are not to create areas completely cleared of snow load, but to evacuate unpredictable and risky amount of snow load by melting.
• Heatingx; has the complete product program and experience to offer effective solutions to your recent snow load problems.
• We would like to share our roof heating references with you.
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Heating in Flat Flat Roof Equipment

• They are used for heat trace purposes in the piping systems of heating / cooling equipment used on the flat roofs of industrial and commercial establishments.
• Flat terrace for drainage around and inside membrane / ceramic / concrete roof drains
• For frost prevention in siphonic (siphonic system) filters
• In order to prevent weakening signals from the snow layer in telecommunication systems
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Roof Heating Systems Common Features