Snow Melts On My Roof Much Faster Than Neighbors

How the snow melts on your home s roof provides clues to attic insulation needs.

Snow melts on my roof much faster than neighbors. I can imagine some of the heat from inside the furnace radiates out and melts your snow faster. So you should get outside after a gentle snowstorm to examine your roof and compare it to the neighbors. In todays video we take a quick look at some house roofs and a look at my. For any rafter the portion of the.

Have you noticed that snow melts quicker on some roofs rather than others it s a big tell on how good your insulation is. Thank you in advance for any insight your expertise is much appreciated. The typical rafter s moi is more than enough to handle snow loads. However it means that these thick mounds take longer to melt than say a thin sheet of snow on the ground.

The more surface area of snow the quicker it will melt. If so we got a little bit of that same snow here in atlanta and i was living in the house that i d just built. How much snow a roof can hold depends on the type of snow roofline and material among other considerations. These questions aren t quite so easy to answer because there are several variables.

If not that would definately heat up the attic and melt the roof snow much faster than an neighbor with a furnace not in the. The roof deck collects the snow load and transfers the weight to the rafters. It too kept snow on the roof longer than any other house around. Sometimes lots of uniform snow on the roof isn t a good indicator of an efficient house though.

One way to judge that is to see whether you see unmelted areas where the rafters are which would prove that the heat is coming directly through from the attic to the roof. Do you have insulation over all the ducts leading out of the furnace and down into the house that are exposed in the attic. That heat melts the snow on the roof. In vacant homes with the heat turned low the snow doesn t melt much.