El Paso County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Ellicott, CO
A normal year in Ellicott brings about 15 inches of rain; on roughly 2 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 7.2 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 0.8. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 9,100 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00057287, 16 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Ellicott falls near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (2.2 a year). By house age it falls 43rd oldest by median year built of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 1978). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (October 3).
When to clean gutters in Ellicott
The first fall frost comes around October 3 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 6 (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 Ellicott rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Ellicott the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.68 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,270 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,540, 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.
With about 31 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.
Ellicott is dry by national standards, about 15 inches in a normal year, but much of the rain that does come can arrive in short, hard storms: the five-minute downpour expected once in ten years still runs at 5.68 inches an hour. Where gutters are used here, the job is moving that burst away from the foundation, and keeping a dry season’s dust and debris from blocking the first storm.
The houses in Ellicott
Half the homes in Ellicott were built by 1978, 63% 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.
72% of households own their home, and 28% of homes are detached houses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Colorado
Before hiring in Ellicott, ask which Colorado license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Ellicott
With half the homes built by 1978, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: