Snow Break For Roof

This gives sliding snow a chance to build up velocity and damage the guards and allows too much load on the lower roof section potentially causing a structural failure of the entire roof.

Snow break for roof.

Description documents the 10 foot pro rib universal snow bar is used on metal roofs to prevent snow from sliding off the roof onto the ground blocking door entry areas or pathways. The most common layout mistake is to mount a row near the eaves and call it good. This snow bar can be used on any of the pro rib or premium pro rib steel roofing panels. Metal roof snow guards prevent the avalanche of frozen precipitation on sloped metal roofing located in winter climates.

Snow guards have been around for over 100 years. As the snow and ice slides on the roof this cost effective product minimizes the danger by slicing the frozen precipitation into small pieces so it can safely come off the roof. The forward cutting edge and the tucked back rear support form a triangular shape that acts like a fin to split up the frozen precipitation. At roof things we offer multiple types of snow guards.

Our roof snow guards for standing seam panels shingles chimneys and vents help protect gutters landscaping and pedestrians. Clamp on snow guards that attach to the standing seam of a metal roof pad style that are valley based snow guards which attach using set screws or surebond sb 190 adhesive bar snow guards which are more often referred to as snow rails and slate snow guards which can be used on slate.