Ellis County, Kansas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Ellis, KS
Ellis gets about 25 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 6 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 10.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 2.4. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 15,200 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00142452, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Ellis falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (6.2 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (half built by 1968). By first frost it falls 7th earliest for the first fall frost of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (October 15).
When to clean gutters in Ellis
The first fall frost comes around October 15 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 25 (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 Ellis rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Ellis the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.38 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 980 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,950, 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 Ellis
Half the homes in Ellis were built by 1968, 65% 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.
75% of households own their home, and 89% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Kansas
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Ellis which license or registration they hold in Kansas, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Ellis
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: