Grand County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Fraser, CO
Fraser gets about 20 inches of rain in a normal year, and a day with an inch or more comes once every 2 years or so. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 5.1 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 12,100 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00053116, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Fraser ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (0.8 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 1995). The first frost here ranks 1st earliest for the first fall frost of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (September 2).
When to clean gutters in Fraser
The first fall frost comes around September 2 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around June 21 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Fraser rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Fraser the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.80 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,890 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,790, 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.
Fraser averages about 143 inches of snow a year (NOAA normals). Snow on a roof brings ice dams: heat escaping from the house melts the snow, and the water refreezes at the cold eave, in the gutter and over it. University of Minnesota Extension puts the cause in the attic, not in the gutter, so a gutter that fills with ice is a symptom; hangers spaced to carry ice and a sound fascia are what the gutter itself needs.
The houses in Fraser
Half the homes in Fraser were built by 1995, 16% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit.
55% of households own their home, and 32% of homes are detached houses, 36% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Colorado
Ask any contractor working in Fraser what Colorado requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Fraser
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1995, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: