Category Archives: Ice Dam Removal

Not All Ice Dams Are Created Equal

A headache is not just a headache.  It can be a migraine.  Or a caffeine headache if you didn’t get your morning cup of coffee.  Or a hangover because you had a few to many the night before.  How to get rid of your headache...
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Written on April 14, 2013

The Truth about Ice Dam Removal Safety Training

When you’re trying to decide on an ice dam removal service, probably one of the questions you want to determine is: Do these guys know what they’re doing?  Can they do the job safely? More specifically, you might wonder what kind of training or certification...
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Written on March 21, 2013

People Who Misspell “Ice Dam” “Ice Damn”

You know an ice dam removal “specialist” is dumber than a brick – or has never seen an ice dam in his life – when he spells it “ice damn,” with an N. Nothing wrong with spelling it wrong if you don’t deal with ice...
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Written on March 17, 2013

How Do I Know When the Ice Dam Season Is Over?

You want to know when you no longer have to worry about ice dams forming on your roof – right? Well, I can tell you in one sentence when the worrisome ice dam season is over: If it’s mid-February or later and the nighttime low...
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Written on March 6, 2013

Should I Knock the Icicles off My Icy Roof?

I’m guessing it started back in our caveman days: the tendency to step outside of our dwelling, marvel at the sparkly icicles hanging down, and rip them off with a triumphant grunt.  Heck, if it was around dinnertime, we may have even chased after the...
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Written on March 3, 2013

3 Common Ice Dam Removal Ripoffs

Ice dams on your roof are enough to worry about: they endanger your home.  Unfortunately, you also have to worry about getting ripped off by unscrupulous or incompetent ice dam removal companies. They know that your ice dam problem is severe enough that you will...
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Written on December 11, 2011

Top 5 Ways the Wrong Ice Dam Removal Service Can Make Your Life More Difficult

Minnesota winters test the durability of your home and particularly the durability of your roof: heavy snowstorms leave multi-ton ice dams on your roof, which put your roof under constant strain and often cause leaks in your home.  The test for homeowners is to find...
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Written on September 25, 2011

eHow.com’s poor advice for ice dam removal

I am shocked to see a quality site such as ehow.com give such poor advice on how to remove an ice dam. We have been in the ice dam removal industry for more than 15 years. You should never strike an ice dam with any...
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Written on September 24, 2011

Ice dam removal damage

Was your home damaged by ice dams this year? Do you still have interior and/or exterior damage to repair? Give The Ice Dam Removal Guys a call today and we’ll set you up with a qualified company to do the job right the first time....
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Written on September 22, 2011

Why should you hire us?

Ice dam removal work can be quite expensive, but trust us when we say “hire a professional”.  We have seen more damage done to rooftops by homeowners and non-qualified (often times uninsured) contractors than we can keep count of.  It’s important to remember that the...
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Written on September 19, 2011