Failed seals around your chimney or roof vents.
Snow melt on roof around chimney.
Gaps around the chimney or vents allows water from melting snow or rain to leak into your home.
Snow diverters could be called roof snow splitters as well.
In addition to providing clues to your home s heat loss problems melting snow on your roof can also be the cause of another issue.
It also quietly is letting your heating dollars disappear right out of the roof.
Just inspect it carefully once in a while and at least annually for any necessary repairs.
Besides wasted heat melting snow on roofs can mean ice dams where snow melts in a warmer spot on the roof and then freezes when it hits the cold eaves.
As long as the ice doesn t damage the flashing and roofing it should be o k.
These includes stack and plumbing vent pipes stove and chimney pipes other pipe covers and any other type of pipe that sticks out of the roof.