Bowie County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Hooks, TX
Rain in Hooks adds up to about 51 inches in a normal year, with about 16 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 14.3 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 10.6. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 31,700 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00416270, 7 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Hooks ranks 130th for heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (16.4 a year). Its housing ranks 149th oldest by median year built of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1971). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 17).
When to clean gutters in Hooks
The first fall frost comes around November 17 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 15 (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 Hooks rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Hooks the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.29 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 870 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,740, 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 Hooks
Half the homes in Hooks were built by 1971, 64% 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.
61% of households own their home, and 71% of homes are detached houses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Texas
Before hiring in Hooks, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Hooks
With half the homes built by 1971, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: