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Steel roof-the snow and ice has ripped my gutter from the straps...need perm. soln
Our new house has a steel roof, and I really like it. I've always wanted a steel roof, but now I'm not sure it's worth the headache.
Were gotten a total of maybe 10" of snow over the last 4 weeks and not enough sunshine or warm temps to really melt the stuff. Yesterday I noticed the gutter in a couple of locations has been ripped from the strap and sagging with a trough full of ice. I can't even try to pull th egutter back and onto the straps because the ice is there. I'm afraid new gutters are in the future, but I don't want a repeat.
The interweb research I've done says gutters should be below the path of the snow sliding off the roof, but then during a hard rain, the water may miss the gutters.
This article gives a couple of good solutions, but I'm not sure the gutters will be able to take the weight of the ice and snow. The snow doesn't always sheet off and shoot bass the gutter. It'll eventually building up, especially if there are leaf gutter protectors. The ice and snow will just form around the gutter protectors. The gutter helmets might work better, but I they don't appear to be the perfect solution.
Anyonw out there in the snow belt or in the mountains deal with this...what was your permanant solution? The roof is only a couple years old....so tearing it off for shingles is out of the question.
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