McHenry County, Illinois
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lakewood, IL
A normal year in Lakewood brings about 39 inches of rain; on roughly 9 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.9. That is about 24,400 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 USC00112048, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Lakewood sits near the middle of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (9.0 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (half built by 1998). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (October 22).
When to clean gutters in Lakewood
The first fall frost comes around October 22 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 25 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Lakewood rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Lakewood the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.31 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 980 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,970, 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.
Lakewood 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.
The houses in Lakewood
Half the homes in Lakewood were built by 1998, 28% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
98% of households own their home, and 93% of homes are detached houses, 5% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Illinois
Ask any contractor working in Lakewood what Illinois requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Lakewood
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1998, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: