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Amerimax Home Products Stainless Snow Guard 9" Strap 85072009 |  | Brand: Amerimax
Category: Home Improvement
Buy New: $72.99
as of 11/24/2009 07:46 CST details
Seller: acehardwareoutlet
Rating:  1 reviews
Media: Misc.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
MPN: 85072009
Model: 85072009
UPC: 049821859725
EAN: 0049821859725
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Designed to prevent mass quantities of snow and ice from avalanching off the roof. Helps protect predestrians and landscaping from snow sliding off the roof. Protects gutters and roof edging. Helps prevent damage to lower roofs. Lift up shingle, nail.
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| Customer Reviews:
Strong, look great, should as long as your house June 10, 2008
Victor H. Agresti (Gaithersburg, MD United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Amerimax Stainless Snow Guard
Amazon should clarify that the price shown is for one dozen snow guards.
The practical reason to use snow guards is to prevent mass quantities of snow and ice from avalanching off a roof. Especially a steep roof. They are also decorative and can improve the looks of a roof. Snow guards are particularly important on metal roofs, due to the smooth surface. However, these guards are for an asbestos shingle roof, as (most of) the strap goes under a shingle, with the guard portion showing.
Snow guards come in copper, stainless steel, cast aluminum, cast bronze, galvanized malleable iron, galvanized steel, and various plastics such as UV resistant Polycarbonate, and in designs other than this model. Copper, bronze, or stainless steel guards should last several lifetimes, since they won't pit, rust, corrode, or crack. We used all copper roof flashing on a home addition and still chose stainless steel snow guards because of their superior strength.
These "made in the USA" guards are excellent quality and are strong enough to actually hold back a large snow load. They are so strong, they might even keep someone from sliding off a roof. The metal is 16 gauge (.057" thick). The strap is 9" long. The guard is 2.75" high and 4.125" wide, has an embossed design to improve looks and strength, and it's securely attached to the strap with two hefty 7/32" stainless steel rivets. Poor quality stainless steel will rust. One test for metal quality is to see if a magnet sticks, or is attracted to, the "stainless steel". If yes, it has a less than optimal chromium content, and may eventually rust. The metal in this product passes the magnet test, which means it's good quality.
The only negative is that these guards are NOT polished as shown in the Amazon photo. Instead, the metal has a dull appearance. They are perfectly fine to use as is, but I wanted mine to be shiny. So, I polished the face of each snow guard with a bench-mounted buffing wheel (see Customer Images); they still shine a year after installation. If you don't have access to a buffer wheel, you could sand the guard face with 600 grit wet/dry sandpaper, then polish with crocus cloth. Use a high quality brand of abrasives, such as GatorGrit or 3M. This approach won't result in as high a shine as buffer-polishing, but the guards will look better.
Once exposed to a broiling sun for even a few hours, the leading edge of [some] self-sealing asbestos-based shingles strongly adheres to the next row down, for protection from high winds. After they seal together, you'll have to raise up most of a shingle's leading edge, for access to the snow guard's nail holes.
If installing the guards on an existing roof, do the work on a hot day with the sun shining. Otherwise, the shingles can break or rip, and won't bend up to give access to the snow guard's nail holes. Be careful when lifting them the shingle leading edge, so you don't damage them. To separate the shingles, carefully push a 3" or 4" stiff wall scraper or similar tool under the entire length of a shingle to break loose the melted tar holding it down. (Clean the tool with mineral spirits often.) Do not use any type of pry bar, as they can easily rip a shingle. The shingles will re-seal themselves in the hot sun. Some self-sealing shingles are fairly easy to raise up, while others, like CertainTeed's Landmark series, virtually melt into the next shingle down, creating a strong bond.
If possible, install snow guards while installing new shingles, since the guard's nailing holes will be fully exposed. If you install all the shingles first while it's cloudy, the guards can be easily installed later that day. Remember, it doesn't take long for the sun's rays to stick the shingles together.
Use stainless steel or copper roofing nails, as they will last as long as your roof. Use a dab of roofing cement on the lower nail, and on any place under the shingles the scraper gouged. The lower nail should be about in line with the nails holding that row of shingles down. Decide on a pattern to use for the guards, draw a diagram of how it will look, etc., and make sure you buy enough guards -- before you start the job. (See Customer Images for one pattern example.) Slightly bend the end of each guard down before nailing in place, otherwise, it will poke up over the shingles by 1/4" or more.
I installed 36 of these guards installed on a steep (10/12 pitch) roof, to catch/hold snow, and they look great.
Good luck!
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