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A rod of multicolored caked vegetable dye that clamps onto the outer edge of gutters so that when roof runoff passes over it colored icicles are created along the eave.
Optionally, dripline watering could be used above (or forced through) the dye rod to cultivate icicles in cold, but dry, weather.
The
vegetable dye could be mildly saline or the assembly heated slightly to prevent freeze-over.
(illustration link below)
(half: I prudently waited until you were out of town to post this)
(libation)
rough sketch
http://bz.pair.com/fun/enchantedEave.html
[26 Kb] That's supposed to be a roof edge and gutter. Squint a bit and, hopefully, it'll make sense. [bristolz, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Closest I could find. Very pretty.
http://www.tomifobi...ious/pix/icicle.jpg
[k_sra, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
[link]
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Alternatively, you could hang FlavorIce popsicles. |
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"MOM! Robby's licking the gutters again!" |
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Or sculpture melt them, very slowly. I see a multi-colored dna model. |
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lovely idea bris but the illustration makes me think of freddy krueger |
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I read this as 'An Enchanted Dave'. I prefer my title. + anyway, even though you have totally ignored the lucrative 'Dave' market. |
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My husband's name is David, so I haven't *totally* ignored the Dave market. |
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one of my favourite names, bris. :) |
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As long as these buggars dont drip on me when I am curled up sleeping Kat dreams, Miss Bris they are fine by me. |
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Also suitable for the modern cave dweller... |
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The dye can be packaged in plastic capsules that pop open at the perfect icicle temperature. Timing is critical -- you'll need melting snow and freezing eaves. |
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While the half's away, The Ice will play. |
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I see. When I leave you alone for a few days, you post the good stuff?
Oh, fine. I can take a hint. I don't need a ton of chromacicles to fall on me. |
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paranoia raises its ugly head... |
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Maybe a resin-based version for Brisbane, [UB]? That'd surprise your neighbors. Of course, I'm not so sure your neighbors are much surprised by anything. |
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[half]: that's right. When are you next leaving? |
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Might want to put some in reach of
the kids. The temptation would be
killer. |
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I love the idea. The only problem is that icicles are bad things that usually indicate a problem with the gutters. (Had to replace several gutters a couple of winters ago do to excessive ice build-up ripping them down, so I have a negative POV of them, I guess.) |
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Perhaps these could be fitted to a reinforced gutter system especially designed to allow the growth of non-damaging icicles. All you'd need is one strip of the gutter installed along a safe wall of the house, above an area with no traffic below. (I suppose that's a separate idea altogether, though.) |
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These would be stunning up-lit at night. Your own personal Northern Lights. + (see link for pic) |
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Yeah, icicles are usually an indicator of bad roof insulation, poor runoff control and drainage problems. At least this would make the best out of a bad thing. |
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If you supplied water to the system, made it an icicle cultivator, you could, like [waugs] says, make it safer and less damaging. It's also conceivable that dynamic colored icicle sculptures, built on their own special framework, could be seeded and grown in the yard, or in parks and courtyards, as well. |
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In the end, though, I went for the lowest hanging--and simplest to explain--fruit. |
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lollipops, make mine raspberry. |
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Living in México makes me feel left out from these cool ideas. Too damn hot down here; it never snows, i don't know what a gutter problem is, ice never builds up anywhere outside the freezer... too damn boring. |
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"Cool and colorful" fun idea. Practical, low-cost. The idea's a winner! |
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Shouldn't this be "one enchanted eave" - and yes, I read it as Dave the first few times! |
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Nice. Any chance of a summer version? |
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I think the song is "Some Enchanted Evening." |
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What would the summer version do? |
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[bris] - coloured icicles would be somewhat surreal, although pretty. Icicles in summer would increase the surrealism. |
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might that i could be swept off my feet by a gaggle of gay eskimos while blinking hopeful behind a window 'neath my rainbowey ice-clad eves. you have delivered me from my once-lonely future!!! |
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Make the whole thing work in Texas and I'm in. |
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I like the idea, but I see one problem with the current design - isn't the roof runoff supposed to run INTO the gutter, and not over it? |
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I'm with you sub_text. Except i'd like to see some real snow. Had enough of ice. Maybe you make colored tablets that melt on the gound and then freeze with the rain. +for the idea. |
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[ton80], what happens, usually, is that a sheet of snow, warmed by the roof, slides down the roof slope and across the expanse of the gutter, allowing the runoff water to reach and trickle over the gutter edge, refreezing in the colder air below the gutter to form icicles. |
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<how's that for a run-on, comma infested sentence?> |
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[bristolz] Thanks for the clarification. I live in central Texas, so we don't have a lot of problem with snow - much less snow sliding off the roof into our gutters! I would say that our most serious snow problem is actually being able to see any of the snowflakes before they melt - often before touching the ground! |
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BTW - that's one of the nicest run-on, comma-infested sentences I've seen in quite a while. |
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Cool, another word to pair with "psychedelic", as in "psychedelic icicles". (I lost the 3rd grade spelling bee on the word "icicle". Like an idiot I started to spell "bicycle" without the "b" even though I knew better. Hey, the pressure got to me. Just look at me now, though, I can spell "psychedelic icicle"!) |
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Pretty idea from a pretty personality. [+] |
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