{"id":12,"date":"2011-03-20T08:07:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T13:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.napoleon.cc\/tips\/?p=12"},"modified":"2021-02-01T12:25:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T12:25:30","slug":"eavestroughs-freezing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napoleon.cc\/tips\/eavestroughs-freezing-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Eavestroughs Freezing Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Eavestroughs Freezing Up?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year during my inspections in Barrie I noticed a lot of people were draining their eavestrough into drain lines, some into french drains and some into low areas away from their homes.&nbsp; This winter has been exceptionally different as we have had freezing rain followed by snow and then cold temperatures.&nbsp; The always changing weather has created a lot of problems for drainage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I visited a home a couple of weeks ago because of water entering the basement.&nbsp; What I found was a rear drain pipe had been installed and the eavestrough pipe fed into the drain pipe.&nbsp; This is a great set up in the summer, spring and fall but is a recipe for disaster in the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This particular drain pipe has frozen up completely blocking any drainage.&nbsp; The water then backed up the drain and overflowed against the foundation of the home.&nbsp; The basement window was located adjacent to the drain and the water seeped through the window well and filled the drain with soil.&nbsp; The water then filled up the window well and leaked through the window and down the basement wall.&nbsp; Lucky there was no furniture and the wall only had insulation and vapour barrier installed, which was easily dried out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A quick solution for this an other eavestrough freezing problems is this;&nbsp; install an open plumbing T, I used PVC but ABS will do also, at the end of your downspout and before your drain line.&nbsp; This will allow water to drain out the open T when the drain line freezes, thus preventing backup and freezing of downspouts and eventually your whole eavestrough.&nbsp; You can add a short drain to this T if water needs to be directed away from foundations or windows etc., common sense will guide you here.&nbsp; This fix is permanent and need not be removed, just install and forget it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This homeowner tip is brought to you by the <a title=\"Alliston Home Inspector\" href=\"http:\/\/www.napoleon.cc\/alliston\">Alliston Home Inspector<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eavestroughs Freezing Up? 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