Our mix of snow and cold weather is the perfect beginning of a troubling ice dam season, according to experts.
“What makes an ice dam is a lot of snow and really cold temperatures, that’s the formula,” said Mike Hilborn with Roof to Deck.
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Hilborn said the water can cause a ceiling to collapse, floors to buckle and walls to warp. To remove the dam crews cut off chunks of ice every twelve inches in width and clear out the gutters to allow melting snow to flow once again. Hilborn said they travel all over the U.S. helping people with ice dams.
“You’ll get out to Boston, you’ll see people on the roof literally with sledge hammers, whacking it, standing on the roof with a sledge hammer,” described Hilborn. “This was in Minnesota. We had a woman get up on her roof with a chainsaw. Can you imagine being on an icy roof with a chainsaw?”
January and February are typically the months when ice dams can form, but a widespread ice dam problem really hasn’t hit Minnesota since 2014, but that could change this year.
“We are kind of due,” said Hilborn.
