Frost On Roof Means

Is this a problem.

Frost on roof means.

Something i implied above but didn t say explicitly is that when frost forms on the roof the roof is below freezing. Over the living space the roof has little smatterings of frost but is largely devoid of the frozen stuff. A lack of frost can indicate that heat is leaking out through your attic space onto the roof and melting the frost. This simple answer is that the attics with no frost are warmer.

It s this very melting and refreezing process that causes ice dams in the first place. Gulf coast of mississippi. If the morning sun directly hits your home and not your neighbors lack of frost may just be attributed to the sun s heat. In other words the sequence might be as follows.

Plus heat wants to go up. Frost on roof it s that time of year when we occasionally have frost on our roof tops. Is the absence of frost an indication of heat loss thru the roof via poor insulation. Ice and water protector sometimes also referred to as ice and water shield is a waterproof roof underlayment membrane developed to protect vulnerable areas on a roof from ice and water damage.

However if nothing is different about your home compared to your neighbors you may have a problem. 1 initially the air and the car are at temperature 37 f and the dew point is 35. 26f degrees nov 19 2014 6 45 am. The heat is thawing the rafters too but the have more mass to absorb the heat and keep the deck above them frosty.

Small icicles along the edge of your roof. Icicles don t always mean ice dams. Because they were running the heat to keep the house warm. On my roof some areas will have frost and others not.

The vast majority of roofs had this frost but there are some that have little or none at all. But they do mean snow is melting on your roof and that some of the runoff is freezing into icicles as it trickles off the edge of your roof. Ice and water protectors sometimes called ice and snow shields in cold climates are made with polymer modified bitumen. Frost is caused by moisture that escapes up through attic bypasses then condensing on the roof boards and rafters.

Closer building in foreground is unheated thus no odd pattern. Warm attics also show the outline of the rafters underneath the roof deck as the escaping heat going as heat does to where heat isn t melts the frost. What can you do about it.