St. Clair County, Illinois
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in East St. Louis, IL
East St. Louis gets about 41 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 11 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 12.6 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 6.7. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 25,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00003960, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, East St. Louis falls 157th for heavy-rain days of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (10.5 a year). By house age it falls 128th oldest by median year built of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (half built by 1957). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (October 26).
When to clean gutters in East St. Louis
The first fall frost comes around October 26 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 8 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for East St. Louis rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In East St. Louis the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.61 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 950 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,890, 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 East St. Louis
Half the homes in East St. Louis were built by 1957, 76% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). At that age a gutter has seen decades of leaves and storms, and the fascia it hangs from has too. 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.
54% of households own their home, and 65% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Illinois
Before hiring in East St. Louis, ask which Illinois license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in East St. Louis
With half the homes built by 1957, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: