Weld County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in La Salle, CO
A normal year in La Salle brings about 15 inches of rain; on roughly 2 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 5.4 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 1.4. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 9,100 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00053553, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, La Salle falls near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (2.1 a year). Its housing ranks 21st oldest by median year built of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 1974). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (October 8).
When to clean gutters in La Salle
The first fall frost comes around October 8 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 2 (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 La Salle rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In La Salle the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.80 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,240 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,480, 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.
La Salle averages about 35 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.
La Salle is dry by national standards, about 15 inches in a normal year, but much of the rain that does come can arrive in short, hard storms: the five-minute downpour expected once in ten years still runs at 5.80 inches an hour. Where gutters are used here, the job is moving that burst away from the foundation, and keeping a dry season’s dust and debris from blocking the first storm.
The houses in La Salle
Half the homes in La Salle were built by 1974, 70% 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.
88% of households own their home, and 94% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Colorado
Before hiring in La Salle, ask which Colorado license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in La Salle
With half the homes built by 1974, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: