Pitkin County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Aspen, CO
Aspen gets about 24 inches of rain in a normal year, and a day with an inch or more comes once every 2 years or so. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 7.4 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 15,200 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00050372, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Aspen ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (0.9 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 1986). The first frost here ranks 28th earliest for the first fall frost of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (September 23).
When to clean gutters in Aspen
The first fall frost comes around September 23 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around June 2 (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 Aspen rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Aspen the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.72 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,940 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,870, 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.
Aspen averages about 171 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 Aspen
Half the homes in Aspen were built by 1986, 39% 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.
59% of households own their home, and 18% of homes are detached houses, 15% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Colorado
Before hiring in Aspen, ask which Colorado license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Aspen
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1986, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: