Cedar County, Iowa
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Durant, IA
Rain in Durant adds up to about 38 inches in a normal year, with about 10 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.8 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.0. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 23,800 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00135844, 11 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Durant ranks 10th for heavy-rain days of the 290 places in Iowa on this site (10.3 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 290 places in Iowa on this site (half built by 1968). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 290 places in Iowa on this site (October 22).
When to clean gutters in Durant
The first fall frost comes around October 22 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 18 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Durant rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Durant the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.45 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 970 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.
The houses in Durant
Half the homes in Durant were built by 1968, 72% 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. 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.
76% of households own their home, and 77% of homes are detached houses, 6% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Iowa
Before hiring in Durant, ask which Iowa license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Durant
With half the homes built by 1968, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: