Colonial Heights city, Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Colonial Heights, VA
Colonial Heights gets about 47 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 13 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 14.2 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.2. That is about 29,100 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 USC00446656, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Colonial Heights sits 28th for heavy-rain days of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (13.2 a year). Its housing ranks 79th oldest by median year built of the 373 places in Virginia on this site (half built by 1970). By first frost it falls among the latest for the first fall frost of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (November 3).
When to clean gutters in Colonial Heights
The first fall frost comes around November 3 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 3 (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 Colonial Heights rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Colonial Heights the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.09 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,020 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,030, 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 Colonial Heights
Half the homes in Colonial Heights were built by 1970, 74% 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.
68% of households own their home, and 79% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
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 Colonial Heights
With half the homes built by 1970, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: