Ice Dam Removal & Prevention in Coventry, RI

We drain the water behind Coventry ice dams before it reaches your ceilings

Coventry stretches a long way from east to west, and winter changes as you go. In Anthony, Washington and Quidnick, the old mill villages near West Warwick, snow tends to come and go. Drive out past Coventry Centre toward Greene and Hopkins Hollow, and the land climbs. Those western roads run colder, and snow can sit on a roof there for days after the eastern villages have melted out. That lingering snow is what feeds an ice dam.

Here is how it happens. Heat from the house warms the upper roof, and the snow on it starts to melt. The water runs down to the overhang, which sits outside the warm walls and stays cold, so it freezes again into a ridge of ice. More melt pools behind that ridge with nowhere to go and works its way up under the shingles. Heavy icicles along the gutters and a thick ice shelf at the roof edge are the warning signs.

Our fix is done by hand. We carefully cut channels through the ice so the trapped water has a path off the roof and into the gutters, which protects the shingles and the gutters themselves. Once the water is moving again, we can talk about keeping the dam from coming back with roof and gutter heat cables, a late-fall gutter cleaning and gutter guards. Call (401) 274-3030 and we answer the same business day.