Augusta County, Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Dooms, VA
Dooms gets about 45 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 fall (September to November), with about 12.9 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 8.9. That is about 28,100 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 USC00448941, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Dooms ranks 60th for heavy-rain days of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (12.7 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 373 places in Virginia on this site (half built by 1984). By its first fall frost it sits 60th earliest for the first fall frost of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (October 23).
When to clean gutters in Dooms
The first fall frost comes around October 23 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 21 (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 Dooms rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Dooms the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.87 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,230 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,450, 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 Dooms
Half the homes in Dooms were built by 1984, 38% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit.
83% of households own their home, and 79% of homes are detached houses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
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 Dooms
With half the homes built by 1984, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: