SNOW RETENTION

 Snow Joe® specialize in designing and developing high-quality, innovative, and affordable outdoor tools to keep your home looking beautiful throughout the year. Founded in 2004, the Snow Joe® company launched with one tool in its product lineup: an easy-to-use, electric snow shovel for under $100 dubbed the “Snow Joe”.   Today, their expansive line of outdoor power equipment, which includes manual, cordless, and electric tools aims to simplify your routine to make it quick and easy to get your outdoor chores done. Their focus is on designing high-quality outdoor tools that are affordable, because they believe that high craftsmanship does not have to come with high prices. 

  Heavy snow and ice dams causing havoc on your house? Don’t let Mother Nature ruin your roof. Prevent damage due to heavy snow loads piled onto your roof and save on costly repairs with Snow Joe® ROOFER JOE – a handy, easy-to-use and affordable roof rake that quickly lets you remove snow, wet leaves and other debris from your roof while standing safely on solid ground. Roofer Joe Model RJ205M boasts an innovative Twist-n-Lock telescoping pole that quickly and easily adjusts from 6.2 feet to a whopping 21 feet for even greater overhead reach to quickly and safely lighten the load without the need for a ladder. And at just 5.7 lbs, Roofer Joe is ultra-lightweight, durable and easy to handle. Its oversized aluminum blade rake head measures 6-inches wide by 25-inches long for maximum clearing power with each pass. 

 We stock high quality snow rakes to help you relieve the pressure on your roof as well as remove snow from the eaves. Snow Joe is a trusted brand in the industry and offers a warranty on all of their products!   

Snow Rake Features:

• Ideal for removing snow, wet leaves and debris from roofs without climbing
• Twist-n-Lock telescoping pole quickly adjusts from 6.2 to 21 ft for extended reach
• Ultra-lightweight construction (only 5.7 lbs!) for easy handling
• Oversized aluminum blade rake head measures 6 in. x 25 in. for maximum clearing

  Berger Building Products has been leading with high-quality products, incredible customer support, and competitive prices for over 140 years. While Berger specializes in a wide variety of roofing protection, gutter support and draining systems they also focus on their customers. Berger is not just a product manufacturer but also a guide, they stand by their customers and lead them through their variety of products and their applications.  

Berger offers the most extensive selection of snow guards for virtually any type of residential or commercial roof, including metal, slate, shingle and cedar. They are designed to reduce large sheets of snow and ice from avalanching off a sloped roof and causing extensive damage to property and pedestrians. Berger Snow Guards are available in copper, stainless steel, bronze, galvanized iron, clear polycarbonate, and in a wide variety of stamped patterns and ornamental castings. 

 Features & Benefits

• Help avoid costly insurance claims due to avalanching snow and ice
• Help prevent ice damming at roof's edge
• Help prevent damage to gutters
• Many styles to suit residential and commercial roofs.     

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Before family-owned and operated Alpine SnowGuards and sister company EcoFasten Solar were born, the company founder was a roofer who worked in the slate roofing industry as the owner of Vermont Slate and Copper Services (VSCS).

As VSCS grew, the company began seeking alternative business ventures in order to make the most of the expertise and capabilities that had been learned in the roofing industry. In 1998, VSCS began manufacturing snow guards on a full-time basis, and so too began the company known as Alpine SnowGuards. They design, engineer and manufacture snow management systems from their facility in Morrisville, Vermont.  Alpine SnowGuards takes pride in the fact that they value doing the right thing as opposed to the easy thing. They educate their customers so they purchase only the products they need and foster a culture of idea-sharing, innovation and creativity. 

 Snow guards are rooftop devices that allow snow and ice to drop off in small amounts or allow snow and ice to melt completely before falling to the ground. The installation of snow guards prevents the sudden release of snow and ice from a roof, which is known as a roof avalanche. A roof avalanche can cause damage to people, pets, cars, landscaping, gutters, plumbing vents, lower roof areas, skylights and anything else that might be in the immediate area below your roof. Snow guards have been around for hundreds of years and have historically been used on slate, tile and metal roofs. The first snow guards were actually limbs that were attached to the eaves of a roof, with rocks placed atop the limbs, to hold the snow back. 

Alpine SnowGuards offers many snow guard options for all shingle roof types (slate, synthetic slate, shake, composition and metal shingle),  all metal roof types (standing-seam, corrugated metal, and through-fastened roofs), and low-friction, sloped roofs.  

All of our snow guards are tested extensively in the field by roofing experts and are made in the USA using recycled materials.  Alpine SnowGuards offers a broad range of rooftop snow management solutions that can help a building qualify for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) credits through the U.S. Green Buildings Council (USGBC®).  When choosing what snow guard style is right for you, you should evaluate your roofing material, roof style, roof pitch, snow load (based on geographical location) and your aesthetics preference (pad-style, pipe-style or fence-style).   Alpine has an online project calculator for pad and pipe style snow guards.  Click the link below to get started.

 Ace Clamp is a product of PMC Industries, Inc.  Committed to quality since 1923, their 55,000 square foot facility manufactures and sells high quality machined parts, injection molded high volume production, molding, and bonding of thermoplastic, Teflon®, and rubber.  Some products recently developed include our patented AceClamp®, a non-penetrating solution for solar panels, satellite dishes and snow retention devices for standing seam metal roofs.

 Ace Clamp manufactures both snow bar and snow rails for metal roof. They also offer bolt down and screw down systems for Membrane, Asphalt, Tile, and Slate roofing. AceClamp® systems also help stop falling ice with ice guard attachments, which are screwed to the rail or snapped into place on new easy-to-install Color Snap® product.   The innovative, sliding-pin clamp design of their flagship A2® product secures the panel without traditional set screws. This system exceeds attachment standards, while also preserving the panel finish from rotational forces and sharp edges that have been shown to be the cause of certain types of damage that can become a nightmare to contractors, such as pierced panels and rust staining. The unique manufactured tapered edge of the pins offer the same level of attachment confidence while also providing the very best protection from installation damage. 

A2 series snow guards were designed to make a contractors life easier and more profitable. 

• Eliminate time wasted assembling clamps.
• Eliminates the need for set screws altogether.
• Single tool install (plus torque)
• No re-torquing required.
• Helps to protect the roofing finish from installation damage.
• Incredible holding power, durability, and longevity.

 Snow guards are now available in over 180 powder-coat finishes!