Loudoun County, Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Cascades, VA
Cascades gets about 45 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 11 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 12.2 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 27,700 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00187272, 7 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Cascades falls near the middle of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (10.5 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 373 places in Virginia on this site (half built by 1995). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (October 26).
When to clean gutters in Cascades
The first fall frost comes around October 26 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 13 (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 Cascades rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Cascades the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.53 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). 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.
The houses in Cascades
Half the homes in Cascades were built by 1995, 3% 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.
70% of households own their home, and 34% of homes are detached houses, 38% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Virginia
Virginia requires a Board for Contractors license for any contract over $1,000; gutter work on a home falls under the home improvement specialty (HIC) or the residential building classification. Ask for the license number and class, and look it up before signing.
Source: Code of Virginia § 54.1-1100. Look-up: Virginia DPOR, license lookup.
Gutter work in Cascades
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1995, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: