Fairfax County, Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lake Barcroft, VA
Rain in Lake Barcroft adds up to about 49 inches in a normal year, with about 13 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.8 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.4. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 30,100 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00182325, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Lake Barcroft falls 55th for heavy-rain days of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (12.9 a year). Its housing ranks 22nd oldest by median year built of the 373 places in Virginia on this site (half built by 1960). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (October 31).
When to clean gutters in Lake Barcroft
The first fall frost comes around October 31 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 9 (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 Lake Barcroft rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Lake Barcroft the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.86 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,050 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,100, 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 Lake Barcroft
Half the homes in Lake Barcroft were built by 1960, 85% 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.
69% of households own their home, and 64% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Virginia
Virginia requires a Board for Contractors license for any contract over $1,000; gutter work on a home falls under the home improvement specialty (HIC) or the residential building classification. Ask for the license number and class, and look it up before signing.
Source: Code of Virginia § 54.1-1100. Look-up: Virginia DPOR, license lookup.
Gutter work in Lake Barcroft
With half the homes built by 1960, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: