Jefferson County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Indian Hills, CO
Indian Hills gets about 19 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 2 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 6.6 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 2.2. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 11,500 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00052790, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Indian Hills falls near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (1.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 10th oldest by median year built of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 1965). By first frost it falls 25th earliest for the first fall frost of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (September 22).
When to clean gutters in Indian Hills
The first fall frost comes around September 22 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 23 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Indian Hills rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Indian Hills the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.22 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,380 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,760, 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.
Indian Hills averages about 81 inches of snow a year (NOAA normals). Snow on a roof brings ice dams: heat escaping from the house melts the snow, and the water refreezes at the cold eave, in the gutter and over it. University of Minnesota Extension puts the cause in the attic, not in the gutter, so a gutter that fills with ice is a symptom; hangers spaced to carry ice and a sound fascia are what the gutter itself needs.
The houses in Indian Hills
Half the homes in Indian Hills were built by 1965, 62% 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.
89% of households own their home, and 100% of homes are detached houses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Colorado
Before hiring in Indian Hills, ask which Colorado license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Indian Hills
With half the homes built by 1965, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: