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Anyone ever put snow guards on a corrugated metal roof? I have a 12' wide covered deck that encircles my place. The roof surface is 20g corrugated galvanized metal roofing sheets. When I put it up, I did not consider the fact that snow would slide off of it en masse.

I have to put something on to stop the sliding before I do any kind of gutters, etc or they will get ripped to shreds the first time there is an avalanche of snow.

The problem? Snow guards abound for standing seam roofing in a bunch of price ranges, but not so much for corrugated roofing.

Looking for something that is mechanically fastened and metal. I have found one product that is a cast snow guard, but they go for about $7 a piece. Not too bad, but I am going to need about 400 of them! Was looking for something a little more economical. Anyone out there ever use anything like what I am looking for?

Angle metal, either aluminum or iron, staggered sections screwed down through the roofing.

Ed

I used aluminum 2x2 angle instead of steel. More expensive but no rust either

Let it slide off!

Just shovel it away from the door.

Then the weight of the snow and ice won't overload the roof.

My camp has a steel roof and overhangs. It's survived VT winters for over 50 years and is going strong.

If you don't absolutely need gutters then don't install them. I hate our metal roof.We have 10 foot 3 inch angle guards on our roof and the gutters still get ripped off.

When you install your guards with screws don't forget to put a dab of sealant on the underside of the guards as the screw O ring only seals from the top side and water can still leak under.


Denny.

I'm sure glad I don't have gutters. I can plant stuff all around the house and its watered when it rains, which is rare out here.

IMHO snow guards "tries" to defeat the purpose of using metal roofing. I know too many instances where they are torn off. Metal that is screwed down holds the snow anyway. I prefer the clip rib if you actually want the snow to slide off. If the snow is going to slide off, one way or the other putting on rain gutters are just an invitation for them to be torn off.

I don't want to use gutters, but the damn rain is cutting a line around the house that the wife does not like. I could live with it. She cannot because it messes up her landscaping. Therefore, I need to do something.

I actually was considering something like the 'rain handler' that breaks up the run off and disperses it around the house, instead of gutters. Even with those though, I will need some way to keep the snow from ripping them off the fascia.

I recall a gutter set up that cathces rain off the roof but snow slides right over.
Snow guards that allow a controlled melt are a good thing if you get a lot of snow and have a roof able to with stand the load.
Snow that slides off a roof piles high and sets hard. That makes it a bitch to shovel and it is the last snow to disappear in the spring.

Just a couple of possibilities.
Least labor intensive , a 1 1/2 foot wide strip of medium sized rock where the drip line is . Wife can pick out whatever color that blends with the landscaping.

Next in labor : See if they would guarantee something like this for ice and snow sliding off . You'll likley need gutter brackets every foot to carry the weight .
http://www.gutterhelmet.com/

Next : If you are or have someone physically able to , put them up in the spring and take them down in the fall , use brackets to support the gutters and screws to hold the brackets in place so they can be removed as well.

Snow and ice can be powerful.

I have them on my Virginia home and the heavy snow and ice has torn them off and i had to have them replaced. They did save the gutters from being torn off

I like the gutter helmet idea.

Wanted to try these:

http://www.rainhandler.com

But, I can't find anyone that has used them before.

My brother has a textured metal roof that makes a racket when the slide starts (alarm) and gives you a few seconds to get away from the overhang if you're near one. Sounds bout like a motor cycle crankin up when it starts to slide. A lot of deaths happens each year due to this problem.

I watched the Rainhandler video. What do those accomplish? One of the most important functions of a gutter is to get water away from the foundation to prevent leaks. The Rainhandler spreads the water out a bit but it doesn't remove it. At almost $5/ft, that's a lot of money for nothing.

We don't have any sort of snow guards on our metal roof and in 7 years we haven't had any trouble with the gutters. I've been a bit surprised a few years with the amount of snow that was sitting on them, but they've never come down.

I fought the PVC gutters for 20 years, putting them up in the spring and taking them down in the fall. Put up seamless metal gutter about 3 years ago, expensive but so far worth it, havent had any trouble with them getting ripped down.

Most gutters are installed with those big aluminum nails. In a few years, they'll pull loose. The problem is that water runs back along the nail and rots out the wood. Using quality brackets that have the screws or nails underneath the gutter so water can't get to the wood will hold more weight and last longer.

If you're not worried about redirecting the water...I had a similar problem but took the opposite approach. I went o Menards or somewhere like that, got the biggest plastic / synthetic landscaping timbers I could buy and put them into the ditch being formed by the water running off the roof. I now have a border of landscaping timbers around the house basically even with the edge of the roof overhang. The timbers blend in with the ground and most folks don't see them.

I started useing 1/2'' galvinized electrical conduit with the brackets that have 2 screw holes you can even run elictric heat tape through it to melt the ice

Just saw your sig picture.

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Tax unhappiness. Then you might have something.