Houston County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Grapeland, TX
Grapeland gets about 47 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 16 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 12.5 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 11.0. That is about 29,300 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00412114, 13 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Grapeland ranks 174th for heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (15.6 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 1977). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 17).
When to clean gutters in Grapeland
The first fall frost comes around November 17 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 13 (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 Grapeland rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Grapeland the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.23 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 780 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,560, 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 Grapeland
Half the homes in Grapeland were built by 1977, 58% 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.
44% of households own their home, and 63% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Texas
Ask any contractor working in Grapeland what Texas requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Grapeland
With half the homes built by 1977, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: