St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Abita Springs, LA
Rain in Abita Springs adds up to about 63 inches in a normal year, with about 18 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 19.8 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.7. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 39,200 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00160016, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Abita Springs ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (17.9 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1995). The first frost here ranks 45th earliest for the first fall frost of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (November 18).
When to clean gutters in Abita Springs
The first fall frost comes around November 18 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 12 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Abita Springs rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Abita Springs the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.14 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 710 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,420, by the rule in the Copper Development Association’s design handbook. Try your own roof in the gutter and downspout calculator, which starts from this figure.
The houses in Abita Springs
Half the homes in Abita Springs were built by 1995, 25% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). At that age a gutter has seen decades of leaves and storms, and the fascia it hangs from has too.
90% of households own their home, and 87% of homes are detached houses, 6% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Louisiana
Before hiring in Abita Springs, ask which Louisiana license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Abita Springs
With 17.9 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: