St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lacombe, LA
Lacombe gets about 62 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 20 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 20.3 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 11.8. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 38,400 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00053865, 7 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Lacombe falls near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (19.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1994). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (November 21).
When to clean gutters in Lacombe
The first fall frost comes around November 21 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 3 (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 Lacombe rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Lacombe the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.28 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 700 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,400, 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 Lacombe
Half the homes in Lacombe were built by 1994, 28% 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.
90% of households own their home, and 82% 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 Louisiana
Before hiring in Lacombe, ask which Louisiana license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Lacombe
With 19.9 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: