Grand Traverse County, Michigan
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Chums Corner, MI
Chums Corner gets about 29 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 fall (September to November), with about 9.2 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.5. That is about 18,100 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 USW00014850, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Chums Corner sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 405 places in Michigan on this site (4.3 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 406 places in Michigan on this site (half built by 1979). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 406 places in Michigan on this site (October 16).
When to clean gutters in Chums Corner
The first fall frost comes around October 16 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 12 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Chums Corner rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Chums Corner the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.90 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,220 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,440, 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.
Chums Corner averages about 101 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 Chums Corner
Half the homes in Chums Corner were built by 1979, 52% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Houses that age have often had their gutters replaced once already; if not, the original runs and the boards behind them deserve a close look. 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.
86% of households own their home, and 92% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Michigan
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Chums Corner which license or registration they hold in Michigan, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Chums Corner
With half the homes built by 1979, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: