I took this photo of icicles on my roof yesterday, thinking they looked pretty, but today I’m well miffed to find that either the weight of that big motherlicker or the general effect of ice dribbling down my drainpipe has caused the plastic drainpipes to split all over the place. So they are all gonna need replacing before the monsoon season in May, bugger.
Weirdly enough I was having a little play with ‘Google Suggest’ to see what to call this post and you wouldn’t believe how much people write about the icicles on their roof.
So I guess it’ll be the galvanized drainpipe type next time.
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Pretty pic! …nasty outcome.
I knwo how it feels, a month ago a pipe blew on my attic because of ice, we had a mini-Niagara Falls in the kitchen for some minutes until I was able to shut the main pipe (I had to put it on fire to loose the valve!) — coming from tropical climates, it was my first experience with deep freezes; luckily I could fix it myself.
Keep up the good writing, Rick!
– and perhaps we can stop by Serre Che this year…