Burnet County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Granite Shoals, TX
Rain in Granite Shoals adds up to about 32 inches in a normal year, with about 8 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 9.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.1. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 19,900 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00411253, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Granite Shoals ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (8.0 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1984). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 23).
When to clean gutters in Granite Shoals
The first fall frost comes around November 23 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 6 (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 Granite Shoals rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Granite Shoals the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.86 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 810 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,630, 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 Granite Shoals
Half the homes in Granite Shoals were built by 1984, 44% 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. 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.
81% of households own their home, and 64% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Texas
Ask any contractor working in Granite Shoals what Texas requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Granite Shoals
With half the homes built by 1984, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: