Monroe County, Michigan
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Dundee, MI
A normal year in Dundee brings about 35 inches of rain; on roughly 7 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 10.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 6.9. That is about 21,600 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 USC00202308, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Dundee sits 93rd for heavy-rain days of the 405 places in Michigan on this site (6.8 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 406 places in Michigan on this site (half built by 2000). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 406 places in Michigan on this site (October 21).
When to clean gutters in Dundee
The first fall frost comes around October 21 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 27 (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 Dundee rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Dundee the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.60 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,090 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,180, 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.
With about 39 inches of snow in a normal year here (NOAA normals), gutters carry ice as well as water. Ice dams start with heat from the house melting roof snow that refreezes at the edge (University of Minnesota Extension); the fix for the dam is in the attic, and the gutter’s part is to be hung strongly enough to take the weight.
The houses in Dundee
Half the homes in Dundee were built by 2000, 37% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
59% of households own their home, and 54% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Michigan
Ask any contractor working in Dundee what Michigan requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Dundee
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2000, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: