You face the risk of falling and seriously injuring yourself or worse.
Remove snow from roof or not.
Use plastic roof snow removal.
Hellevang advises using a roof rake which allows a person to remove snow while standing on the ground.
The only time it may be safe for a homeowner to remove snow from the roof in the winter is if the home is one story and the snow can be removed by working from the ground with a snow rake.
Some snow rakes have rollers that keep the rake just above the shingle.
If you can remove the snow from a ladder with various snow clearing tools do so.
If using a shovel.
Snow rakes or drag lines work well from the ground.
Here s a simple rule for deciding.