Franklin County, Illinois
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Benton, IL
A normal year in Benton brings about 46 inches of rain; on roughly 13 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 14.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 8.9. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 28,500 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00117187, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Benton falls 31st for heavy-rain days of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (13.0 a year). By house age it falls 154th oldest by median year built of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (half built by 1958). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (October 28).
When to clean gutters in Benton
The first fall frost comes around October 28 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 4 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Benton rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Benton the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.86 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 920 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,830, 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 Benton
Half the homes in Benton were built by 1958, 82% 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.
63% of households own their home, and 75% of homes are detached houses, 2% 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 Benton, ask which Illinois license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Benton
With half the homes built by 1958, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: