St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Covington, LA
Covington gets about 63 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 20 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 19.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.7. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 38,800 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00162151, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Covington falls near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (20.3 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1989). By first frost it falls 45th earliest for the first fall frost of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (November 18).
When to clean gutters in Covington
The first fall frost comes around November 18 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 12 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Covington rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Covington the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.13 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 710 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,420, 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 Covington
Half the homes in Covington were built by 1989, 31% 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.
65% of households own their home, and 77% 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 Louisiana
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Covington which license or registration they hold in Louisiana, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Covington
With 20.3 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: