Getting Snow Off Metal Roof

You just need to get a rope over your roof.

Getting snow off metal roof.

You can also tie two ropes to a swivel and pull the swivel to. Here s how i removed snow from my roof with a rope. A metal roof is great for preventing snow build up because the sun heats up the metal and causes the snow to slide right off. The rain gutter should be installed a bit lower down so it is not directly in the path of the sliding snow and the metal roof should hang almost halfway over the gutter.

November 19 2014 10 56pm 3. I have a metal roof with a shallow 3 12 pitch. We are usually asked for ways to stop the snow from sliding off the roof all at once. Ron beaver hay and myself provide a how to on wiring snow off a roof.

You will have to adjust all of this according to how regular rainfall flows off the roof you don t want the water to overshoot the rain gutter. Snow and ice released well the first season when the metal still had the oil or coating it leaves the factory with but now it no longer releases on its own.