Ice Dam Removal & Prevention in Fall River, MA

We stop Fall River ice dams from leaking into top-floor apartments

Fall River climbs from the Taunton River and Mount Hope Bay up toward the Watuppa Ponds, and most of its housing was built tight on those slopes. Triple-deckers and multi-families stand a few feet apart, so the houses shade each other and the low winter sun barely reaches some roofs. Snow on those shaded sections stays frozen, while heat from the top-floor apartment keeps melting it from underneath.

Many triple-deckers have flat or low-slope roofs that drain to one gutter or outlet at the back of the building. When that outlet freezes, meltwater pools on the roof with nowhere to go. In the Highlands, larger older homes have the opposite shape: steep roofs, dormers, towers and valleys that funnel snowmelt into a few short stretches of gutter. Different houses, same result: water backing up into the top floor.

Ice dams on tall buildings are not a job for a stepladder and a hammer. We remove them by hand, carefully cutting channels through the ice so the trapped water can drain into the gutter and down the downspout, without cracking shingles or tearing loose a three-story gutter run. Then we can open frozen outlets and downspouts and install heat cables where the ice returns every winter. Call (508) 399-7600.