Yes! Contractors everywhere love the ease of assembly, the simplicity, and the durability of our S-5!® snow retention systems. This should come as no surprise, because the S-5!® systems were designed by a contractor who was tired of inferior products that were wretched to install and performed poorly. These systems were then field tested and refined in Colorado Rocky mountains where snow challenges are extreme. The result was a line of unsurpassed snow retention systems based on patented S-5!® clamping technology.
Why upgrade from an adhesive-based systems?
Today’s metal roof products have premium finishes made from fluorocarbons and which are similar in composition to Teflon, the popular non-stick coating on cookware. These paint resins, Hylar and Kynar by tradename, are wonderful performing finishes there were never intended for the glue-on type snow retention systems. People continue to try test this combination, but an adhesive device on a nonstick surface continues to offer high failure rates. In addition, most adhesives are temperature-cure compounds. This limits their application to warm weather only, and the glues can take weeks to fully cure.
Note, too, that adhesives are chemically organic compounds. Ozone and ultraviolate light cause the chemical bonds to degrade over time. This means that an adhesive tested for ultimate load-to-failure in a laboratory may well show favorable results. But after five or ten years of exposure to heat cycling, UV radiation, moisture and ozone, the weakened chemical bond often causes the system to fail at unacceptably low loads. Will that happen on your roof? No one can say for sure, and it’s that very issue of unpredictability that makes adhesives a risky choice. Our S-5!® attachment technology, on the other hand, is mechanical, stable and predictable. It’s derived from non corrosive metals that are unaffected by temperature, UV light or ozone. Their attachment performance does not change over time: If you love it today, you’ll still love it 50 years from now.
Note: When relying upon lab tested load figures, the setscrew tension should be periodically verified using a calibrated wrench.
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