Monroe County, Illinois
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Columbia, IL
Columbia 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 spring (March to May), with about 13.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 8.3. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 28,000 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00119002, 7 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Columbia ranks 111th for heavy-rain days of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (11.2 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (half built by 1992). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (October 27).
When to clean gutters in Columbia
The first fall frost comes around October 27 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 6 (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 Columbia rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Columbia the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.74 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 930 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,860, 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 Columbia
Half the homes in Columbia were built by 1992, 35% 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.
82% of households own their home, and 80% of homes are detached houses, 5% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Illinois
Before hiring in Columbia, ask which Illinois license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Columbia
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1992, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: