Wow!! Ice crystal formation. Really? I don't need to go look things up on the internet to know that the ground is FROZEN and so is any and all residual water in the drainage pipe buried in the FROZEN ground. This is the cause of the "lack of water removal" the original poster mentioned. So for anyone not able to understand this I suggest that you grab a shovel and go outside and dig a hole. If this exercise does not teach you anything reverse your grip on the shovel and smack yourself with it until you knock some sense into yourself.
Did anyone notice the ice at the bends of the down spouts like John and I did. This usually occurs when the down spouts are over expanded and the ice has no where to go. When you inspect your gutters the seam is in the back. You should do this soon so that any water leaking out will not erode your foundation as mentioned.
Does any one else think this "solution" has only made things worse? I know my down spouts were fine before. It's a shame that some thing was not broken was fixed with some thing that is.
Is anyone else experiencing Ice Damming on the roof?
For the first winter since i have lived here icicles are developing on the wooden eaves of my unit.
I have to think its due to a lack of water removal due to the newly engineered down spouts.
Again you are ignorant to what is going on. If you had checked your gutters in past winters, you would have seen that the gutters and down spouts were frozen from thawing on the roof and there was no pop up drainage system during those years. I rest my case.For your information John Frankhouse and I have notices, during inspections last year and this year, some of the down spouts were split prior to and when they installed the pop up. These sections will be replaced this spring. Again, not caused by the ice freezing in prior years and this year.John and I have inspected theses down spouts for the past four years and are well aware of what has happened.By the way, what is your address so we can conduct an inspection of the down spouts.
Bob Ripley