St. Martin Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Cade, LA
Rain in Cade adds up to about 67 inches in a normal year, with about 21 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 21.5 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 14.7. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 41,400 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00053960, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Cade ranks 53rd for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (21.0 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 2001). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (December 1).
When to clean gutters in Cade
The first fall frost comes around December 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 19 (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 Cade rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Cade the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.13 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 710 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,420, 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 Cade
Half the homes in Cade were built by 2001, 20% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
89% of households own their home, and 51% of homes are detached houses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Louisiana
Ask any contractor working in Cade what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Cade
With 21.0 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: