Dane County, Wisconsin
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Cross Plains, WI
A normal year in Cross Plains brings about 39 inches of rain; on roughly 10 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 14.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.1. That is about 24,300 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 USC00471416, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Cross Plains sits 9th for heavy-rain days of the 386 places in Wisconsin on this site (9.6 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (half built by 1985). By first frost it falls among the latest for the first fall frost of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (October 15).
When to clean gutters in Cross Plains
The first fall frost comes around October 15 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 28 (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 Cross Plains rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Cross Plains the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.48 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 960 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,930, 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.
Cross Plains averages about 39 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 Cross Plains
Half the homes in Cross Plains were built by 1985, 44% 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.
69% of households own their home, and 67% of homes are detached houses, 9% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Wisconsin
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Cross Plains which license or registration they hold in Wisconsin, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Cross Plains
With half the homes built by 1985, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: