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All right so it did make it up to 49 degrees today, nice and warm. So despite being tired from all night computer building I DID get out of bed and spend 7 hours in the mud doing the work on the downspout drainage problem. To recap; BOTH downspouts were not conveying the gutter water away, and away in my case would be to and underground pipe next to the house right out to the street sewer. I had no flow at all, so water was just pooling on one side of the house, and just spilling on the walkway on the other side of the house.
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So today was rather warm and tomorrow will be also so I figured the ice I had left in the vent pipe would have melted. I’m POSITIVE it froze at some point given how cold it’s gotten in the last 2 weeks. But today when I looked down the pipe there was a hole going down the middle of the ice all the way through.
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So OK, I’ll admit it, I’ve been involved with multiple outdoor projects. But actually they’re all connected; the siding installation made me look at the gutter situation, and the gutter situation made me look at the downspout situation. The downspouts are in place but water should be going somewhere right? But it isn’t it’s going down the downspout and just of sitting there. Or rather if it IS draining to someplace it’s doing so VERY slowly. And I’m convinced that water sitting next to a house foundation isn’t a good idea. In fact (and I haven’t done the research) I get the feeling that if a LOT of water pools onto the ground and freezes it would expand.
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