Cook County, Illinois
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Arlington Heights, IL
Rain in Arlington Heights adds up to about 32 inches in a normal year, with about 7 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 10.8 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.3. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 20,000 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00004838, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Arlington Heights ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (7.0 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (half built by 1973). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (October 26).
When to clean gutters in Arlington Heights
The first fall frost comes around October 26 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 19 (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 Arlington Heights rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Arlington Heights the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.33 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 980 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,960, 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.
Arlington Heights averages about 38 inches of snow a year (NOAA normals). Snow on a roof brings ice dams: heat escaping from the house melts the snow, and the water refreezes at the cold eave, in the gutter and over it. University of Minnesota Extension puts the cause in the attic, not in the gutter, so a gutter that fills with ice is a symptom; hangers spaced to carry ice and a sound fascia are what the gutter itself needs.
The houses in Arlington Heights
Half the homes in Arlington Heights were built by 1973, 65% 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. On a house built before 1978, replacing more than 20 square feet of painted fascia or trim falls under the EPA’s lead-safe rule, so ask whether the crew is certified.
73% of households own their home, and 54% of homes are detached houses, 7% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Illinois
Before hiring in Arlington Heights, ask which Illinois license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Arlington Heights
With half the homes built by 1973, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: