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Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Ingalls Park, IL

A normal year in Ingalls Park brings about 38 inches of rain; on roughly 8 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 12.8 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.7. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 23,600 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.

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Ingalls Park: rain and roofs

NOAA station USC00114530, 4 mi
38.0 in
Rain in a normal year, Ingalls Park
NOAA normal, JOLIET BRANDON RD DAM
8.3
Days with an inch or more
a year
23,600 gal
Water off 1,000 sq ft of roof in Ingalls Park
0.62 gal per sq ft per inch
6.94 in/hr
5-minute downpour, once in 10 years
NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2
Oct 25
First fall frost
median date
1952
Median year homes were built
ACS 2020–2024
92%
Homes built before 1980
ACS 2020–2024
Winter5.7 in
Spring10.7 in
Summer12.8 in
Fall8.8 in

Bars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).

By heavy-rain days, Ingalls Park falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (8.3 a year). By house age it falls 51st oldest by median year built of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (half built by 1952). By first frost it falls among the latest for the first fall frost of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (October 25).

When to clean gutters in Ingalls Park

The first fall frost comes around October 25 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 19 (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 Ingalls Park rain

Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Ingalls Park the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.94 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,040 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,070, 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 Ingalls Park

Half the homes in Ingalls Park were built by 1952, 92% 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.

76% of households own their home, and 89% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.

Hiring in Illinois

Before hiring in Ingalls Park, ask which Illinois license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor

Gutter work in Ingalls Park

With half the homes built by 1952, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it:

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