This blog highlights standard pad-style snow guard layout options and the process for roofing professionals to receive layout recommendations for any of Alpine’s 20+ pad-style snow guards. Remember to follow Alpine’s snow guard layout recommendations to achieve the best performance. Performance Data Facilitates Better Solutions Alpine has been designing, engineering and manufacturing snow guards since Keep reading . . .
Alpine’s Optimal Pipe-Style Snow Guard Layouts
Alpine has been designing, engineering and manufacturing snow guards since 1993. In that time, we have established snow guard layout recommendations based upon roofing experience, snow guard design and testing. Alpine’s ongoing collection of performance data facilitates better solutions and layout suggestions. This blog highlights the process for roofing professionals to receive layout recommendations for Keep reading . . .
5 Reasons to Add Ice Flags to Your Snow Guard Quote
Ice flags are optional safety devices that help prevent ice from avalanching off rooftops. They are used in conjunction with our bar and pipe-style snow guards. Here are five specific snow management situations where they are extremely beneficial. You would want to add ice flags to your Alpine SnowGuards’ quote in these situations: Above critical Keep reading . . .
Alpine’s Research Facility Observations 2022 – 2023
Snow Guard Performance Testing When we’re not skiing, ice fishing, snowmobiling or shoeing, we’re manufacturing snow guards and watching footage from rooftop cameras at our performance facility. We capture thousands of images of our snow guards’ performance. Observing snow melt around our snow guards is particularly informative when roof types, snow guard styles and patterns Keep reading . . .
Customize Solar Snow Guards with Colorful Finishes To Match Your Roof
Alpine’s solar snow guards are designed to reduce the risk of avalanching snow and ice from rooftop solar arrays and carports. Two recommended components of our three-part system can be customized with colorful finishes; the third is anodized black and blends with the panels. Alpine performs in-house powder coating with a dedicated team utilizing state-of-the-art Keep reading . . .
Alpine’s Solar Snow Guard Test Procedures
With over 25 years’ experience designing and manufacturing snow guards, Alpine SnowGuards’ products provide optimal performance that uphold the structural and water-tight integrity of roofs regardless of roofing material. Our patented snow retention for solar panels applies time-tested solutions to a modern problem: avalanching snow off roof-mounted solar arrays. Alpine approached solar snow retention with Keep reading . . .
Snow Bird: a Strong & Versatile Snow Guard for 18 Roof Types
Alpine SnowGuards’ Snow Bird is a top 10 best-selling snow guard. Its name harkens to when snow guards closely resembled birds. Alpine streamlined the classic design and brought a stronger and more versatile product to today’s market. Learn more about Snow Birds’ ideal roof types, strengths and performance testing. Snow Birds are in stock and Keep reading . . .
Introducing a New Solar Snow Guard Calculator
Our engineering stars have aligned with the brightest star of all, the sun! Alpine SnowGuards has developed a snow guard calculator especially for solar installers. As manufacturers of the only solar snow management system on the market, it was only a matter of time. And that time is happily now! If you or your customers Keep reading . . .
Wire Loop HD Snow Guard: Simple and Performance-Proven
Elegant design is often simple and unencumbered. The same is true of the Wire Loop snow guard. Wire Loops are typically fabricated from a single lustrous piece of copper wire and mechanically twisted into a low-profile loop. They are one of the oldest pad-style snow guard designs. As such, they are synonymous with historic slate Keep reading . . .
Alpine LedgeGuard: Modern Snow Guards for Façades
Alpine SnowGuards’ LedgeGuard was introduced in 2019 as a snow guard solution to the risk of falling snow and ice from high-rise city buildings onto busy sidewalks and streets below. The product has proven its strength and performance after rigorous pre-launch testing and almost three years of installations in US cities known for perilous weather Keep reading . . .