Miami-Dade County, Florida
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Ives Estates, FL
Ives Estates gets about 68 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 21 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 26.6 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 7.7. That is about 42,400 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 USC00086315, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Ives Estates sits 19th for heavy-rain days of the 758 places in Florida on this site (21.4 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 761 places in Florida on this site (half built by 1984).
Gutter and downspout size for Ives Estates rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Ives Estates the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.92 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 660 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,320, 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 Ives Estates
Half the homes in Ives Estates were built by 1984, 36% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Houses that age have often had their gutters replaced once already; if not, the original runs and the boards behind them deserve a close look.
56% of households own their home, and 23% of homes are detached houses, 11% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Florida
Ask any contractor working in Ives Estates what Florida requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Ives Estates
With half the homes built by 1984, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: