What is Snow Retention?
And
Why are Snow-Retention Systems So Important?
Is Your Metal Roof Offensively and Defensively Ready for Winter?
Today marks the first Monday of Fall, 2018. As of today, there are 88 days until winter in the Northern Hemisphere. (To check in with our clock, clicking down the days until winter? Go to any of our ÜberGards pages or check out www.ubergards.com.)
88 days…
Your metal roof needs strategic snow management.
But what is snow retention?
And
Why are snow-retention systems important?
Snow retention is, simultaneously, a Defensive and Offensive way to enable buildings to strategically manage snow.
Snow retention is allowing snow and ice to drop off of metal roofs or other roofs in small amounts, or to allow snow and ice to melt completely before falling to the ground. The structure controls the snow’s escape from the roof.
Snow-retention devices are important because they alleviate danger from unpredictable, uncontrollable snowfall. Metal is a smooth surface. This is a good thing, right? But when combined with snow and ice, it can quickly shift to a perfect storm resulting in a roof avalanche. To prevent such occurrences, quality snow guards, snow fences, snow breaks, snow hooks, ice guards, and other devices are a structure’s “Defense” in terms of the snow-management game.
Strategic snow retention is life-critical. Snow retention protects people and property, and gives architects, contractors, and owner-maintainers the peace of mind that they have contributed to designing and building a safe structure.
It is a peace of mind that, when working with the right roofing/snow-retention company, can even survive all of those originally planning for the building. One of Spengler Industries’s award-winning clients is fond of saying: “A 1,000-year roof needs 1,000-year snow guards.”
When done right, snow-retention planning does not require maintenance – just forethought, budget, and upfront commitment. Snow guards are part of the defensive huddle you have before your building’s game time.
Specifying, budgeting for, and correctly/proudly installing snow guards, snow fences, snow breaks, snow hooks, ice guards and other devices offering an unsurpassable warranty (think ÜberGard’s unmatchable, industry-leading Lifetime-Plus™ Warranty) ensures a defensive metal roof that is as safe as it is beautiful.
Offensive Snow Management: Invest in The World’s Best Snow Guards and SAVE Money
Offensively, snow guards for metal roofs in specific, and for metal roofs in particular – provide upside energy benefits to the building.
You are investing in a beautiful metal roof. You want to have it all: Beauty, Safety, and even energy savings.
You want metal to accompany that metal roof.
A snow guard is a device or system that retains snow pack on a roof. The Defensive idea is to evacuate the snow in a predictable and controlled fashion. In other words– evaporation and thaw rather than by a sudden and dangerous rooftop avalanche.
In addition to the Defense snow-guard systems provide, they provide Offense – Keeping the snow on a structure’s rooftop provides natural insulation, keeping rooms and people warmer inside and saving money on energy bills.
One of our clients, an award winner of the North American Copper Development Architectural Metal Awards, has a snow-guard system on their copper roof and saves $400-$500 per month on heating, all due to their ÜberGard system’s delivering a strong Energy Offense Game, every winter.
Your Copper, Stainless Steel, or Aluminum Roof’s Game Plan for Winter
Is your Metal Roof Playing
a) Defense?
b) Offense?
OR
c) BOTH!
With Spengler Industries Roofing/And the ÜberGard Best Snow Guards in the World?
You can confidently know that you have the best game plan for both Offense and Defense, for beauty, safety, longevity, and the energy savings that is what snow guards and snow retention are all about.
is the Director of Marketing for Spengler Industries AND ÜberGards.com
