Roof Snow Removal in Papillion

NOAA keeps a weather station in Papillion but publishes no 1991 to 2020 snowfall normal for it, so the honest answer is a range from the stations that have one. Eppley Airfield in Omaha averages 27.1 inches a year. NOAA's Gretna 4NE station, west of Papillion in the same county, averages 36.4 inches, and February alone brings it 10.9.

The number that matters on a roof is weight, not depth. FEMA's figures, quoted by the Department of Energy, put a foot of light, dry snow at about 3 pounds per square foot and a foot of heavy, wet snow at about 21. The guide to how much snow a roof can hold does the arithmetic.

Younger than most of the metro's. The Census Bureau's American Community Survey (2019 to 2023 five-year estimates) puts the median year Papillion's housing was built at 1990. About 28 percent of the city's homes were built before 1980, and about 23 percent in 2000 or later.

Younger housing is not immune to ice dams. One needs only an upper roof above freezing and eaves below it, the University of Minnesota Extension explains, and heat leaking from the house into the attic is what usually warms that upper roof. ENERGY STAR names the attic hatch among the openings to seal.

The eaves, the valleys and the gutters, where the weight and the ice gather, and the attic above any ceiling that showed a stain. Water that sat behind an ice dam can wet the roof deck under the shingles, and gutters that held ice all winter can sag away from the fascia. The free visit after the snow looks at the roof, the gutters and the siding together, with photos, and the estimate comes in writing.

When ice at the eaves is holding water back, our crews steam it off rather than chip it, so the shingles under the ice come through. If water is already coming inside, catch it, photograph it, stay off the ladder and call; the ice dam removal page covers the rest, from drying out to preventing the next dam.

Our Papillion office at 110 N Washington St handles Papillion and the towns near it and is staffed during business hours; the crew comes to you, and mail and in person meetings go to 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 whole service, from the warning signs of too much snow to how a roof is cleared safely, is on the roof snow removal page, and everything else we do in town is on the Papillion page.