%$*=#*> I hate math! Lol. Maybe I should just get you to do the math for me! Great vid, tho! Lol

Well now I know why everyone burning down, freaking can’t afford the breaker 🤦🏼good info

Great video! I like your ladder. It appears to be very light. Would you mind sharing the brand?

Great video. You are showing heating cable and the power cable running down the downspout. How do prevent cable from touching each other in the downspout?

Who is best to install self regulating heat cable in a downspout and underground pipe? Plumber? Roofer?

Can I install these heat cables on the edge of my roof that has solar panels on it? The snow slides off the panels and sits on the edge and my gutters.

Great info. Thanks so much!

I can't believe that I just witnessed you make an "Open Splice" on the external surface of the outside of this house!!! Especially with Butt Splices and Heat Shrink? I can think of several LEGAL and Safer methods to resolve this issue. A small water proof box with a GFI Breaker is the best way. Not a Walmart In Line temp GFI Device! My God. You just cut the line, and did a hard splice and stapled it back to the wall. How much did you charge these people for the Job? That's okay, I passed the Video along to the NEC office, OSHA, and the local inspection office. Just when I though I had seen it all.

screw all these various winter gimmicks. just be a man and clear the dam snow yourself. you'll get some exercise and save some money. people are so lazy these days!!!

So the homeowner didn't have a gfci plug of breaker?

Hi, your video is really helpful. Could you just add text with names of products for easier following? Thank you!

Great videos guys. Thanks for sharing.

I knew all this but it's great for me to hear again, because listening what you are saying makes me get better explaining to customers what I have done or gonna do. Extra tip for viewers!! Stable the cable 🥶, nail it down😬. Make sure no metal holds your cable (except aluminium-foil-tape), only us plastic clamps which can endure time and weather and never disform the cable. ( the cable should be hold not thightend!!) Why? Because metal clamps, screws, nails or stable can damage your cable, if you only brake the first layer the groundcale underneath it will oxidate and it won't pase the megger test (1000Volts). It is my number 1 cause when I got send out for a malfunction. Someone who puts isolation over my cable screwed into it. Selfregulating cable has a, (about left finger to right shoulder) length, in this length the cable will be 1 temperature, the next piece of cable can be a different temperature. That's why we call it selfregulating. If you cross this cable or or touch the cable with the cable, this cable will automatically keeps doing what it suppose to do. But if you us the constant wattage cable and you cross it or et the cable touch, than the cable will burn out and can even cause fire. So keep that in mind and look as they instal it. Thanks again Eric and good luck you guys. Greetings from the Netherlands.👋🖐👋🖐👋🖐

You Americans are so bright. But there are some things I don't understand. I thought America was more strict with safety rules, but with electricity you seem a 50 years behind with us. -What you did outside, well.... Why didn't you place a nice box with a led in the door (exactly over the big white socked on the wall), so it looked super professional and like it never was any different, everything you've done outside could be done in that box. Now it looks like amateur work, sorry to say so. And why did you place the clamp on the site of the wall instead of the sealing like the others were. I would have freaked out over this, hahaha -Than the breakerbox, I agree on the neutral, or was it disconnected? Didn't see you measuring 1 time! I would have done at least 15 measurements in your video. -Also the breakerbox, the powerline (The incoming thick cable) shouldn't there be a protecting cover over it!? Every electrician in the Netherlands would complain about this to his employe and to the customer and this would be the first thing which we should take care off. And to do this, the power needs to be shut off or we are in violation if we don't do it like this, and if something bad happens the last electrician working there could be in court. -And then your powerlines in the streets on wooden poles, we have them underground or in structures like the Eiffetower in France but than smaller but you can crash a 40 ton truck and it wouldn't fall down. If you drive your bike onto such a pole a square mile could be life threatening. Give me a house and a 15.00 dollar save car (Audi A3 quattro 3 times s-line, leather seats and panorama roof with max 75.000 miles and no damage) and I want to be able to save at least 1500 a month. (I got about 60.000 if I sell everything here) and I come live in the US working for you, you learn me thinking deeper and I learn you how you stand out of all other heat tracing companies in the US. Let me handle a customer my way, I make you a new installation, no customer will ever be bothered of the sight of what I make for you and them. And if someone sees the difference everybody wants me to do it. When we both know what we need, I start a new company with your name (out of thanks if you want) in another state. .

Hi eric, Spark ,arc, fire. That's a good one to remember when I have to explain a customer. (25 years electrician, I knew about the arc, but never thought about it the way you do, my thought was just: spark can create a fire. So you just expanded my brain a bit hahaha.) I'am a heat tracing mechanic/technician in (mostly) factories in the Netherlands (1 year experience). I owe my boss (workgiver as we call it here 😉) big time, watching your videos keeps me up to date and makes a specialist out of me for when I repay my debts. I'm also a bit dyslexic, this learns so much easier than out of a book.

Сверху на лед укладываете провод и ждете пока он проплавит лед?

What if the outlet of the downspout is under 1 foot of snow?

Today i when i turned on my computer the cable caught on fire 😢

Right now the outlet and bottom of my downspout is buried under 10" of snow. If it melts it will refreeze up the downspout and be clogged there

I noticed you didn't say how the custom box your company makes, actually work. Why is it so much cheaper than the circuit breaker? I'm thinking about having heat tape installed on my home, just curious.

I have a mobile home and live in North Dakota. My heat tape just died and my pipes froze. I didn't put the heat tape on, bought it this way and know nothing about the stuff. What would you recommend? Any help is appreciated.

Dude, the world's most predictable problem happens to us from our electric furnace. There's 6' of condensation line that was run on the outside of the house. When it freezes our furnace stops working. I'd love to get one of those and band clamp it to the condensate line for when we're in winter. Your video's in depth as hell. Thank you. You're awesome. I appreciate it.

What if you plug this into a Arc fault Receptacle . AFCI . Will it be protected then...

What do you use to fasten your heat cables to the roof?

Sweet

Which is why I refuse to use heated floors and ceilings

What’s the best way to install for a roof with multiple roof lines? Also do you typically just install on shady or north facing sections?

Fantastic tutorial !!

Good informative video although I would’ve cleaned the gutters out prior to installation of the cables, they looked pretty packed with crud

You should mention also that the de-icing cable is ineffective below a temperature of -10c. At that temperature, no snow or ice will melt on the roof. Turn on the heat when the temperature rises above -10c.

Where is the link to how you added power? 12:24

Excellent video! After viewing this video, I am left with this nagging question and concern. If GFCI outlets are not good with heat tapes, why is that type of outlet the ONLY outlet installed by companies that produce Manufactured Homes, in the area under the house where the water pipe comes up from underground? That outlet is installed specifically for heat tapes since they are essential in cold climates if you want to have water in winter months. Modular and Manufactured homes are built inside, under climate-controlled conditions, and must adhere to strict and extensive Federal HUD building codes. All manufactured homes produced after 1976 must carry a nonremoval metal tag certifying their construction adherence to Federal regulations. Newly Manufactured Homes coming from a dealership or factory and being set in place for the first time are additionally required to undergo an installation inspection, to be completed by a Federally certified HUD inspector in states registered as Hud-Administered states. States may alternately choose to run their own manufactured homes installation inspection programs, and employ State Certified inspectors. In such cases, the program and the inspector must meet or exceed Federal requirements for both. These inspectors are required to inspect every aspect of the home, including the electrical and plumbing systems IN the house, BELOW the house (within the crawl space or basement) and at entrance/connection points. We live in a northern state, where winters can easily bring temperature dips as cold as -20F to -40F degrees. Water pipes that run through or near unheated or unsealed areas MUST be carefully and fully wrapped in heat tape and provided additional supplemental insulation in some installations. Our new manufactured home was delivered and set in place late fall, and inspection did not take place until November. The shirt-and-tie government employee who inspected the home did not say or note anything about the GFCI outlet that our heat tape was already plugged into. Obviously, the US "regulation-fueled", "all-wise" Federal government isn't as smart or wise as we are expected to acknowledge. *SHOCK!* We will be looking into what it will take to have the correct electrical outlet(s) installed for our heat tape(s), and THANK YOU very much for this valuable information!

What’s the spacing for your clips? In the instructions it says “15” for the base of the triangle but yours looks more than that

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER HERE, AFTER WATCHING THIS WOULD NEVER IN A FUCKING BAJILLION GOD DAMN YEARS WOULD I EVER FOR ANY REASON INSTALL THIS SHIT IN A HOME. THAT DESIGN IS GROSSLY NEGLIGENT

Love your comparisons. How does Drexan compare to Radiant Heat solutions in Minnesota?

Question about the number of cycles you mention toward the end. Is that power on/off cycles, or is that extreme temp change cycles, as in affects-the-materials cycles. I would probably want to put the system on my home automation system to be able to control the power supply to it at any time, from any where, and even have it programmed to not be energized at all above a certain temperature. Would such a power turn on/turn off cycle be detrimental to the components in regard to cycle 'lifetime'?

I have the constant wattage cable. But....I only want the cable to "Turn on" when the temp is 32 degrees turn off when the temp is 36 degree how can I do this I've seen many controllers but?/ Thank you, mike

Horrible

I'd call that strange. It doesn't even seem real at all. Almost no way this could happen. If you don't believe me, put a key in an outlet.

What black adhesive did you use to secure clips to asphalt shingles?

How will you be correcting the issue in a cost effective manner?

Thank you for this informative and succinct audio/visual - super helpful. Is there a standard calculation for a metal roof with ribs that are 10 inches apart and with an eave that is 4.5 feet?

What would you recommend for a steel roof?

Amazing thank you!

This video sucks so bad! It’s like watching my wife explain something for 25 mins that could have been said in one sentence

extremely well done.

Dude. This is beyond helpful. Thank you.

I have one of those brackets on my vent pipe, but I’d like to try to use heat cable to keep it from holding the snow back. I have a flat 5/12 pitch roof. It seems the pipe kind of holds back the snow from falling off the roof. I’ve already had my vent pipe rip off once. Any thoughts on using the heat cable for that ?

Thanks for the videos series, are really well explained. Maybe need a video about how to install the RS-2 roof sentry. I couldn't find the link for the power installation.

i started backwards lol