Grip Clip Multi-Purpose Clip

Box of 10 Clips

Multi-Purpose Roof Clip, Black Anodized Aluminum, Used to Secure Heat Tape and Other Types of Cables to Standard Asphalt Shingle Roofs, Maintains Roof Warranties, Fast to Install, Fast to Remove

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Grip Clip Multi-Purpose Clip

Keep your cable systems safe and tidy around the roof with the MPC-325. This clip can be used with any type of heat cable from self-regulating to constant wattage to AV or telecommunications. It is designed to work on asphalt shingle roofs ranging in thickness between 1/8”- 3/8”. Need to run cable vertically up a roof? Dealing with a woven shingle valley with no room for standard clips? Want to secure cable tightly to the lip of an exposed dormer flashing? The MPC-325 is a perfect clip to address the improvisational nature of cable installations in the field. 

Installations require NO tools and NO nails or screws, greatly decreasing installation time while also eliminating potential liability associated with using traditional nail-on clips. Additionally, the MPC-325 can be easily repositioned or removed without damaging the roofing materials by simply bending up the top arms of the clip. 

How it works: There are six robust aluminum barbs on the body of each MPC-325. These barbs embed, or ‘bite’, into the back of the asphalt shingle, creating a semi-permanent anchor that can be used for many years without creating damage when removed. The MPC-325 is a part of the Patented line of the Grip Clip™ family.

5/5

“Heat Tape Pro did exactly what I needed it to do. Now I don’t have to worry about water leaking into my house, because I can tell when it’s working by the little light on the end of the cable.”

-Michael P.
Amazon Customer

4/5

“This heat tape works as advertised. It was delivered to me fast, and although it’s a little complicated to install, the documentation is good..”

-Shaun D.
Radiant Solutions Customer

5/5

“I install thousands of feet of heat tape every year. This is the best stuff I’ve found to protect my customers homes and give them the piece of mind they need.”

-Patrick B.
Professional Installer

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes!

Installing our heat tape on your standing seam roof can be very effective in combating ice dam formation. There’s two main products used to install heat tape on your standing seam metal roof: The S-5 SR Heat Tape Clip, and the standard ice dam heat tape clip.

S-5 SR Clip for Heat Tape & Standing Seam Roofs

Installing Heat Tape on a Standing Seam Roof with the S-5 SR Heat Tape Clip
The S-5 Heat Tape Roof Clip is a new, patented roof clip design specifically for standing seam applications with a focus on ease of install and effectiveness. It is used in conjunction with the S-5 Base, which needs to be purchased separately. The S-5 base is designed to clamp onto the seam of a metal roof as the S-5 Clip holds your ice dam heat tape into position. Can be set up in a single or dual-clip configuration. (See product page for more info)


Installing Heat Tape on a Standing Seam Roof with Standard Roof Clips

There are specific ways/configurations used when installing heat tape on a standing seam / metal roof using standard heat tape clips. The following (2.6 – figure 16.0 & 17.0) shows a snippet of the HeatTape Pro installation manual showing two different clip configurations, more info can be found in the manual itself: Heat Tape Pro installation Manual

The type of clip you need for your heat tap installation is based on what kind of roof you have.

We are building a hand guide to identify what kind of roof you have and find the clips that can/should be used with that roof-type.

View the Guide Explaining What Clips You Need Here

To know how many clips you need to buy, there are two things you need:

  1. Some Basic measurements regarding your installation area & some considerations to note
  2. Our handy Heat Tape Calculator to punch in your measurements & notes

We have a guide on How to Measure for Purchasing Heat Tape that will help you. Once you have your measurements, you can find our Heat Tape Calculator here.

If you are in need of a specific product that is currently out of stock, you can request to be notified when new inventory of product is in stock.

Click Here to complete the Re-stock Notification Form

We generally do not reserve stock for miscellaneous reasons outside our stated inventory on this website. Besides selling on this website, we also Sell our products on Amazon.com – in doing so, we send separate inventories to their warehouse for fulfillment, so you could check inventory of the product you are looking for there.

Including a thermostatic heat tape switch or controller in your installation will cut power to your heat tape in times it is not needed. This will lessen your environmental footprint and save you money.

Savings will always depend on the weather and how often you have temperatures above the threshold that the switch turns on your heat cable. In most situations where heat cable is needed, savings will offset the cost of the ThermaCord and then some.

If the product you need is currently out of stock, don’t worry. 

We are frequently restocking products and the one you need will soon be available. You can make a request to be notified when out of stock items are re-stocked. 

Click Here to Submit your information to be notified of a Products Restock

There’s two main steps to determining how much Heat Tape you need:

  1. Make a couple simple measurements of your house/roof, while noting a couple aspects of your situation
  2. Use Our Heat Tape Calculator to plug in those numbers, which can tell you how much heat cable you’ll need

See Below


Measuring for Heat Tape

Measuring is not difficult and you can make measurements without going up on your roof or using a ladder if you err on the side of overestimating the distances. Here’s Radiant Solutions Guide to Measuring for Heat Tape, which gives a detailed overview of measuring and some tips and resources, if you think you need it.

The Heat Tape Calculator

Once you have your measurements, you can use our Heat Tape Calculator to help you determine the length of Heat Tape Pro you need, the number of Heat Tape Clips you’ll need, and misc. product considerations.

The short answer is NO. Self-regulating heat cable does not turn itself on and off automatically. To do that you need to put the cable on a switched circuit or outlet or on a controller. Of course, you can also be old-school about it and simply plug and unplug as needed. 

“Self-Regulating” refers to the fact that these cables are temperature sensitive. Due to their construction, these cables sense changes in temperature along their entire length, demanding more power as temps fall and less when they rise. 

PipeFreeeze Pro™, Pipe Freeze Protection Solution has a built in thermostatic switch, meaning it will turn on and off on it’s own.

Heat Tape Pro™, does not contain a built-in thermostatic controller. We recommend adding the ThermaCord™ Thermostatic controller to turn your Heat Tape PRO to turn the cable on and off with changes in temperature.