Colorado County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Eagle Lake, TX
Rain in Eagle Lake adds up to about 45 inches in a normal year, with about 15 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 12.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.9. That is about 27,900 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 USC00411911, 17 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Eagle Lake sits 210th for heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (15.1 a year). By house age it falls 99th oldest by median year built of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1968). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (December 1).
When to clean gutters in Eagle Lake
The first fall frost comes around December 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 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 Eagle Lake rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Eagle Lake the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.35 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 770 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,540, 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 Eagle Lake
Half the homes in Eagle Lake were built by 1968, 69% 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.
85% of households own their home, and 80% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Texas
Ask any contractor working in Eagle Lake what Texas requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Eagle Lake
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: