Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Golden Meadow, LA
Golden Meadow gets about 67 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 23.7 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 14.1. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 41,300 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00163433, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Golden Meadow falls 15th for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (22.0 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 1st oldest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1958).
When to clean gutters in Golden Meadow
Frost is rare in Golden Meadow, and in many years there is none (NOAA normals). With no hard freeze to strip the trees, the fall cleaning follows the leaf drop itself; book it once the trees over the roof are bare, and plan a second visit in spring.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Golden Meadow rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Golden Meadow the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.96 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 660 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,310, 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 Golden Meadow
Half the homes in Golden Meadow were built by 1958, 81% 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.
76% of households own their home, and 86% of homes are detached houses, 2% 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 Golden Meadow, ask which Louisiana license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Golden Meadow
With half the homes built by 1958, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: