Easy HeatCKS-12 Roof De-Icing Cable Spacers And Clips Kit

So easy to install my heat cable now to prevent ice dams on my roof.

It grips the shingles well.. for the most part. A few did not so I had to hammer them in. I used this to replace the stones I would use to keep the heating coils on the roof (valley) in place.I do not, for now, know whether they would require to be replaced next year, but will get back in case I need to purchase them again.

These parts work fine, and they were shipped very quickly and well packaged.My story:The previous owner installed heat cable to try to deal with ice damming, but no clips, so the cables were lying in the gutters but not on the roof. I had considered heat cable on my last house which also had ice damming problems, but decided not to because it sounded expensive and not great results. Anyway, because these were already installed I figured I'd see if I could make them work.The clips work as promised, but I'm not sure the heating cables do. Now that they're on the roof too, they melt the snow when it's falling, so there's less build up of snow. That's a problem when sun heats the roof or heat leaking from the house melts the snow all at once; that's when the ice dams really build up.However the cables are not warm enough to melt a lot of ice, although having them on the roof and in the gutters is a better idea than just in the gutters. If they were hotter they might work, but also be a fire hazard and suck up a lot of electricity. But the clips themselves work as promised.Besides getting up on a ladder and chopping the ice off, which threatens the health of the shingles, I've found the following solution to work best: get some cheap nylon calf-length women's stockings, fill them with ice melt (not salt, but something that won't harm your shingles; I use calcium chloride pellets), tie them in a knot, and toss them onto the roof. Be careful not to breath in the dust from the ice melt, I'm pretty sure it's not good for your lungs.

Okay, I know these are for asphalt shingle roofs. But what's a guy supposed to do when he has to put heat cables on a metal roof???? The clips don't have enough strength to hold on the metal edges and support the hooks and the cable. But as I always do, I improvised and modified what I had to work with to accomplish the mission. As of now they are still holding, we'll see what happens by winter's end.

We just installed Easy Heat ADKS-400 80-Foot Roof Snow De-Icing kit and we ordered these spacers thinking they would not be in the kit but they were so this extra pack of spacers we did not need to use but they are exactly the same as the ones that came in the kit and those worked great. We have a difficult section of roof with dormers that can, if we get an extreme winter as we did 2014/2015, can create a problem with ice build up. We shall see if this was a help... time will tell but these spacers worked as expected.

These are very pliable aluminum just using fingers to bend. They are good for one attempted installation. Will update next year after they've gone through this winter in CT. 2015-2016. I will be using a roof rake to clear the snow above the heat wire and hopefully not catching the wires or fasteners. My roof is nearly flat and needs snow removal. I'm hoping the heat wires reduce the ice accumulation at the gutter and roof edge. I was hoping for sharper and longer points to grab into the asphalt shingles.

I own several of these for my roof and highly recommend them for ice, snow build up.

working good so far. I have used them before with satisfactory results-