Davis County, Utah
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Bountiful, UT
Bountiful gets about 28 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 4 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 9.9 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 3.1. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 17,100 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00420819, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Bountiful ranks 17th for heavy-rain days of the 142 places in Utah on this site (4.0 a year). By house age it falls 13th oldest by median year built of the 142 places in Utah on this site (half built by 1972). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 142 places in Utah on this site (October 24).
When to clean gutters in Bountiful
The first fall frost comes around October 24 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 25 (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 Bountiful rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Bountiful the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.46 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,080 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 4,160, 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.
Bountiful averages about 119 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 Bountiful
Half the homes in Bountiful were built by 1972, 63% 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 72% 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 Utah
Before hiring in Bountiful, ask which Utah license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Bountiful
With half the homes built by 1972, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: