Morgan County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Brush, CO
Rain in Brush adds up to about 14 inches in a normal year, with about 2 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 6.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 0.8. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 8,900 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00053038, 12 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Brush ranks near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (2.2 a year). Its housing ranks 20th oldest by median year built of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 1973). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (October 6).
When to clean gutters in Brush
The first fall frost comes around October 6 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 6 (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 Brush rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Brush the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.52 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,100 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,210, 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.
Brush is dry by national standards, about 14 inches in a normal year, but much of the rain that does come can arrive in short, hard storms: the five-minute downpour expected once in ten years still runs at 6.52 inches an hour. Where gutters are used here, the job is moving that burst away from the foundation, and keeping a dry season’s dust and debris from blocking the first storm.
The houses in Brush
Half the homes in Brush were built by 1973, 73% 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 70% of homes are detached houses, 3% 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 Brush, ask which Colorado license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Brush
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: