Snow protection for the roof - experiences?

I don’t know if we should be ashamed of it or not, but when we were at the [Bauen & Energie Messe] in Vienna in February, we completely forgot about this point... Maybe also because our area hasn’t exactly been flooded in recent years.

Anyway... How did you approach snow protection for the roof or how do you plan to approach it? Or rather, the most important question for me is... Could this also be done afterwards?

Thank you very much in advance!

Having it done afterwards is certainly more complex since the snow guard noses are clamped under the roof tiles. We wouldn't have been allowed to fix the roof at all without those parts. Didn't you receive a building permit decision from the municipality? All the requirements were stated there.

edit: we had to equip our entire roof with it.

Flat roof + Rhineland = problem solved.

But this probably won't help you. Do you have a house with an adjacent sidewalk? Then I would secure that completely, unless it is already legally required. If the house is surrounded by (front) garden, I would secure the door as well as possibly the patio doors.

Actually, any common roofer in your region should be able to manage this, right? Both directly during construction or afterwards. Although directly during construction probably even 10 minutes before laying the tiles might still be sufficient, right?

This is just a layman's opinion.

We had snow guards retrofitted onto the roof. The carpenter/roofer who did this took less than three hours for the entire roof and he also said that it was not really a big effort.

Thank you very much for your answers!

Of course, a flat roof would also have been an option, but aesthetically we did not like it. In addition, this way we have the long-term possibility to perhaps utilize the attic someday.

We have, of course, received the approval notice from the municipality, and snow guards are included in the requirements. However, apparently everyone is free to choose the option.

: How did you design your roof surface and which snow hooks did you use?

We have a gable roof with a 35° pitch. Our roof is covered with the Finkenberger tile in granite and storm clips. For retrofitting the snow stoppers, ESB Euro snow stopper brackets in black gray were used. If you want to see our roof with the house, we have some pictures of it on our homepage.