St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Laplace, LA
Laplace gets about 67 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 23 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 21.4 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 14.2. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 41,700 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00167767, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Laplace ranks 3rd for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (23.0 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1983). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (December 14).
When to clean gutters in Laplace
The first fall frost comes around December 14 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 9 (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 Laplace rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Laplace the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.24 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 1,410, 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 Laplace
Half the homes in Laplace were built by 1983, 43% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit. 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.
79% of households own their home, and 83% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Louisiana
Ask any contractor working in Laplace what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Laplace
With half the homes built by 1983, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: