Brown or tea colored ice is a sign that something is wrong.
Brown icicles on siding.
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Brown icicles are often a sign that water has seeped under your shingles.
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Knocking off icicles is not recommended and can easily cause damage to eaves flashing and gutters.
As you are now aware this is a common occurrence and means that water has backed up.
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This morning we notice that the vinyl siding of this wall is covered with icicles.
I have brown water coming from behind my siding and from behind my windows both.
You re correct that the discoloration is dirt dust or debris in your attic soffit or behind your siding.
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Because it would seem to me that the most logical way the water is getting into the siding is by being pressed up there through an ice dam causing the situation where icicles form on siding.
When we took the siding down the plywood underneath was rotten in a small area but luckily no internal damage.
Looks like water is somehow getting into the bottom metal runs of the soffit and travelling from gutter end towards the wall and then dripping down the wall.
When siding stains appear in random areas during the winter it s the result of moisture migrating through the walls during very cold weather condensing as frost then melting again once the outdoor.
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Stains on siding below soffit.
Here are a couple of photos showing what stained siding looks like after all the ice is gone.
Roofing gutters and all waterproofing anywhere brown water coming out from behind siding and windows help.
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Melting snow and ice can also get packed underneath roof shingles causing water to seep into the cracks of the roof.
The underside of your shingles is a mess of dirt and debris sitting on top of tar.
Other danger signs include ice forming under.
A secondary problem is water damage evidenced by the unsightly brown stains spotted on ceilings and or walls.
Any water under your shingles will be brownish or blackish and that water might roll down your roof and become a grungy icicle.
The brown ice means that water is infiltrating the roof and causing dirty ice to form.