How to stop ice dams in tight spaces above second-floor windows
Ice dams form on shaded, hard-to-reach roof sections and architectural bump-outs where tight spaces prevent traditional insulation fixes. This leads to recurring water intrusion around second-floor windows every year, forcing homeowners to find solutions that do not involve climbing onto a two-story roof.
What people tried
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How to stop ice dams in tight spaces above second-floor windows
- 1remediating damage on the insideDid this help you?
- 2considering heat cables as a solutionDid this help you?
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In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“my house was subjected to some ice dam situations around some of my windows on the 2nd floor.”source ↗
“This window had the most water intrusion, followed by the middle window.”source ↗
“I'm not sure what adding any insulation would do here, if it is even possible, as you can see where my windows "bump out" from away from the facade of my house.”source ↗
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