St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Chalmette, LA
A normal year in Chalmette brings about 59 inches of rain; on roughly 21 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 20.0 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.3. That is about 36,400 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00161639, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Chalmette sits near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (20.5 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1977).
When to clean gutters in Chalmette
Frost is rare in Chalmette, and in many years there is none (NOAA normals). With no hard freeze to strip the trees, the fall cleaning follows the leaf drop itself; book it once the trees over the roof are bare, and plan a second visit in spring.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Chalmette rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Chalmette the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.62 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 680 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,360, 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 Chalmette
Half the homes in Chalmette were built by 1977, 57% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit. 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.
60% of households own their home, and 65% of homes are detached houses, 13% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Louisiana
Ask any contractor working in Chalmette what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Chalmette
With half the homes built by 1977, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: