Roof Snow Guard & Snow Fence Articles

Yearly snows avalanching off structures in Colorado highlight the need for snow retention systems on buildings. Two major accidents in Colorado in March of 2023 and 2024 illustrate the importance of including snow guards, bars or fences on homes and commercial properties in areas where snowfall can be quite intense.

We've evaluated our top product offerings going into 2024 and identified interesting trends in snow retention.

Based in Colorado, we provide metal snow guards, snow fences, and bar-style snow retention systems designed to protect people and property. Rocky Mountain Snow Guards offers free quotes and layouts for product placement.

Rocky Mountain Snow Guards has the most experience with DaVinci synthetic roofs of any snow retention manufacturer. We know what works because we have observed both excellent and poor performing snow retention systems. We condensed that knowledge in our snow retention guides for each DaVinci product.

RMSG introduces the Yeti series of snow guards. The Yeti series combines greater strength and larger pad area like the RG with the half-round style of the ST.

Snow Fences by RMSG are a great, cost-effective solution to snow sliding off of roof solar panels. Snow collects BELOW the panels, making sure there is no shadowing of the solar panels, while protecting the area below the roof.

A question we see from time to time here at Rocky Mountain Snow Guards involves customers that have had snow guards installed and are still having issues with the snow coming off of their roof. A pesky issue for sure. There are a few things you need to consider if this is a problem you are experiencing.

There are a lot of reasons to put snow guards on your roof. Most importantly is for protecting people, property and pets. Here's an infographic we built up to demonstrate these reasons.

This is a brief summary introduction of the 3 different types of metal roof snow retention systems, Snow Guards, Fence-Style and Bar-Style snow guards. The article discusses products manufactured by Rocky Mountain Snow Guards, S-5!, Alpine SnowGuards, Zaleski, SnoGem, Polar Blox and others.

Plastic snow guards don’t fulfill our mission to provide attractive, permanent and effective rooftop snow retention.