Roof Snow Removal in Millard

Because Millard is Omaha. Omaha first tried to annex the City of Millard in 1967; after the court fight that followed, the Nebraska Supreme Court affirmed the annexation in June 1970 (City of Millard v. City of Omaha), and Millard became part of Omaha in 1971. The building rules became Omaha's with it, so a Millard roof is permitted and inspected by the City of Omaha.

Its climate table, Table R301.2(1), sets three things a Millard roof is built to: a ground snow load of 25 pounds per square foot, a winter design temperature of minus 3 degrees F, and ice barrier underlayment marked as required. The table's note says a city marks that Yes where there is a history of local damage from ice damming.

So when a Millard roof is replaced, the ice barrier goes under the shingles. When an ice dam forms on the roof you have now, it gets steam.

NOAA has no 1991 to 2020 snowfall normal in Millard itself. Two of its published normals show how much the metro varies: 27.1 inches a year at Eppley Airfield and 36.4 at the Gretna 4NE station, with February the snowiest month at both. What counts on a roof is weight, not depth: FEMA puts a foot of heavy, wet snow at about seven times a foot of light, dry snow, and the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety says most sound residential roofs carry about 20 pounds per square foot before they are stressed. Two feet of old snow under two feet of new can weigh as much as 60 pounds per square foot, the IBHS adds, and an inch of ice weighs about as much as a foot of fresh snow.

Get people out of that room and call for help. The Department of Energy, citing FEMA, lists a sagging ceiling with creaking or cracking sounds, doors or windows that will not close, and new cracks in walls or ceilings as the signs a roof is carrying too much, and says to contact a qualified engineer. OSHA warns that a roof weighed down by snow can collapse under the added weight of anyone who climbs onto it. The warning signs guide covers each sign.

Ice dams start in the attic: heat leaking up from the house melts the snow higher on the roof, and the water freezes again at the cold eaves, the University of Minnesota Extension explains. Our crews steam the dam off and clear the gutter below it; the ice dam removal page explains how, and the attic ventilation guide explains how to stop the next one.

Our crews, by hand, from our Omaha headquarters at 5634 S 85th Cir Ste 204. Office hours are 9 to 5, and during storms and emergencies we take night and weekend calls. Call us at (402) 291-8888. The roof snow removal page explains when snow should come off and how it is done safely, the roof check afterward is free, and the Millard page covers everything else we do there, from the streets around Zorinsky Lake to the established blocks of west Omaha.