Ice Dam Removal & Prevention in Uxbridge, MA

We stop Uxbridge ice dams from leaking into farmhouses and colonials

Uxbridge covers a lot of ground, and its winters show it. Out past the town center, houses sit beside open fields and on wooded hills, and wind blowing across the fields piles snow against one side of the roof. On an old farmhouse with an ell or an attached barn, that drift lands in the valley where two roofs meet. Snow there melts, runs to the cold edge, refreezes and builds an ice dam right where the roof is hardest to keep watertight.

Newer colonials off Route 146 and Route 16 have their own weak spots: big roofs, bonus rooms over the garage and dormers that break up the eaves. Wherever heat leaks into the roof, snow melts from below and the water freezes at the overhang. When that happens, we remove the dam by hand. We carefully cut channels through the ice so the backed-up water drains into the gutters, and we leave the shingles and gutters in one piece.

Getting to a house at the end of a long country road is part of the job. For homes that dam up every year, we install roof and gutter heat cables on the problem sections, clean gutters late in the fall and fit gutter guards so leaves and pine needles do not freeze into the gutter. We work in North Uxbridge, Ironstone, Wheelockville, Hecla and every road in between. Call (508) 399-7600 for a free estimate, answered the same business day.