Waukesha County, Wisconsin
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Big Bend, WI
Big Bend gets about 36 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 8 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.0. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 22,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00478937, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Big Bend falls near the middle of the 386 places in Wisconsin on this site (7.9 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (half built by 1967). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (October 13).
When to clean gutters in Big Bend
The first fall frost comes around October 13 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 1 (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 Big Bend rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Big Bend the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.01 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,030 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,050, 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.
Big Bend averages about 37 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 Big Bend
Half the homes in Big Bend were built by 1967, 71% 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.
89% of households own their home, and 94% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Wisconsin
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Big Bend which license or registration they hold in Wisconsin, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Big Bend
With half the homes built by 1967, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: