Hancock County, Illinois
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Hamilton, IL
Hamilton gets about 40 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 10 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.4. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 24,600 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00134381, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Hamilton ranks 169th for heavy-rain days of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (10.4 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (half built by 1970). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (October 27).
When to clean gutters in Hamilton
The first fall frost comes around October 27 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 10 (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 Hamilton rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Hamilton the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.84 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 920 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,840, 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 Hamilton
Half the homes in Hamilton were built by 1970, 74% 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.
72% of households own their home, and 71% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Illinois
Before hiring in Hamilton, ask which Illinois license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Hamilton
With half the homes built by 1970, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: