Adams County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Commerce City, CO
Rain in Commerce City adds up to about 14 inches in a normal year, with about 2 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 5.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 1.2. That is about 8,700 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 USC00050950, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Commerce City sits near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (1.9 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 2004). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (October 7).
When to clean gutters in Commerce City
The first fall frost comes around October 7 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 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 Commerce City rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Commerce City the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.52 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,300 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,610, 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.
Commerce City averages about 35 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.
Commerce City is dry by national standards, about 14 inches in a normal year, but much of the rain that does come can arrive in short, hard storms: the five-minute downpour expected once in ten years still runs at 5.52 inches an hour. Where gutters are used here, the job is moving that burst away from the foundation, and keeping a dry season’s dust and debris from blocking the first storm.
The houses in Commerce City
Half the homes in Commerce City were built by 2004, 25% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Most houses here are young enough to have their first gutters, so cleanings, guards and small leaks come up more than replacements.
78% of households own their home, and 79% of homes are detached houses, 10% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Colorado
Ask any contractor working in Commerce City what Colorado requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Commerce City
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2004, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: