New Heated Gutter Guard Melts Icicles And Ice Dams. The inventors of Gutterglove gutter guard have unveiled a "heated" gutter guard that is the first of it’s kind in much needed icicle hazard areas of the world. This heated gutter guard, properly named Gutterglove IceBreaker, melts icicles, snow loads and ice dams on your gutter, and even filters out leaves, pine needles and tiny roof sand grit so gutter cleaning is a thing of the past.

This breakthrough technology incorporates a self-regulating heat cable that installs in a built in channel in the IceBreaker gutter guard itself. It efficiently warms up the gutter guard and inside the gutter for melting the ice that has plagued homeowners for centuries from falling icicles. When Gutterglove IceBreaker is turned on, it not only melts the ice, but prohibits icicles from forming on the gutter.

Falling icicles from building structures can cause serious harm and even death when they fall on unsuspecting pedestrians. Robert Lenney, inventor of IceBreaker, says that his heated gutter guard is unique and can eliminate icicle fatalities.

"IceBreaker is a heated gutter guard because it has a built-in channel in the gutter guard itself that the heat cable snaps into," says Lenney. "This built-in feature for the heat cable allows significantly more potential of conductive heat to radiate through itself and downward inside the gutter."

Traditional ways for deicing a gutter is to place the cable on the bottom of the gutter. But Lenney says the problem with this is that the oblong shaped cable has three sides exposed to the cold air, so 75% of the heat is being wasted. The only real functional heat is coming from where one side of the cable is touching the bottom of the gutter.

Gutterglove IceBreaker also solves another problem, cleaning out your gutters. The top of IceBreaker has a fine stainless steel mesh that filters out all the leaf and pine needles, including roof sand grit. No more gutter cleaning in the fall, and no more icicles in the winter.

The traditional way of cleaning out a gutter with a cable installed in the bottom of a gutter is very difficult. The debris wraps itself around the heat cable making it troublesome to clean out the leaves, pine needles and sand from the gutter. Fireman also consider this a fire hazard when dried leaf debris mixes with the heat cable in the summer time.

In climates where temperatures are sub-zero Fahrenheit and below, a special ‘heat sink’ accessory is available that snaps to the underside of IceBreaker and transfers additional heat to the bottom of the gutter.

Architects wanting to incorporate a heated gutter guard, or a regular gutter guard on their building plans, gutter guard CAD drawings of all the Gutterglove products are available for free download on their website.

Co-founder of Gutterglove John Lewis feels that IceBreaker will also help eliminate rainwater erosion problems during the fall and spring when it’s not cold enough to snow yet.

“Many homes in colder climates generally don’t have gutters because of the icing problems that exist,” comments Lewis. “However, that’s not a problem anymore. Because IceBreaker eliminates these problems, homes can now have gutters as long as IceBreaker is installed on them.”

Lewis also mentioned that when snow slides off the roof, as long as IceBreaker is installed at the same pitch of the roof, the snow and ice just slide off IceBreaker, leaving your gutters intact. One of the benefits of having a gutter on your home is that it channels the rainwater away from your home eliminating water erosion problems.

With IceBreaker, you can also perform snow harvesting, also referred to as rain harvesting. Your gutter allows the melted snow to flow to your rainwater storage tanks which can be used later for a variety of water uses.

In addition to IceBreaker, Lenney has designed two more gutter guards (non-heated) with keeping low cost in mind for the homeowner. They both sport the stainless steel mesh for keeping all the debris out of your gutter and their names are Gutterglove Ultra and LeafBlaster gutter protection system. Because of the recession and everyone being on very tight budgets, he felt the need to design two low cost gutter guards that every homeowner can afford.

More information about the product and becoming and installer can be found at GutterGlove's Web site.

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