St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Eden Isle, LA
Eden Isle gets about 66 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 22 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 21.0 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 13.3. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 41,000 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00168539, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Eden Isle falls 31st for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (21.6 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1997). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (December 1).
When to clean gutters in Eden Isle
The first fall frost comes around December 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 24 (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 Eden Isle rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Eden Isle the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.39 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 690 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,390, 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 Eden Isle
Half the homes in Eden Isle were built by 1997, 10% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). With homes this new, the gutters are usually the builder’s originals; keeping them clear matters more than replacing them.
85% of households own their home, and 70% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Louisiana
Before hiring in Eden Isle, ask which Louisiana license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Eden Isle
With 21.6 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: