Fairfax County, Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Franconia, VA
Rain in Franconia adds up to about 42 inches in a normal year, with about 10 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.8 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 8.9. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 25,900 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00013743, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Franconia falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (10.0 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 373 places in Virginia on this site (half built by 1988). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (November 18).
When to clean gutters in Franconia
The first fall frost comes around November 18 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 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 Franconia rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Franconia the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.85 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,050 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,100, 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 Franconia
Half the homes in Franconia were built by 1988, 21% 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.
77% of households own their home, and 21% of homes are detached houses, 52% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Virginia
Virginia requires a Board for Contractors license for any contract over $1,000; gutter work on a home falls under the home improvement specialty (HIC) or the residential building classification. Ask for the license number and class, and look it up before signing.
Source: Code of Virginia § 54.1-1100. Look-up: Virginia DPOR, license lookup.
Gutter work in Franconia
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1988, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: