Lawrence County, Illinois
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lawrenceville, IL
Rain in Lawrenceville adds up to about 47 inches in a normal year, with about 14 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 13.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.4. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 28,900 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00114957, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Lawrenceville falls 9th for heavy-rain days of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (13.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 61st oldest by median year built of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (half built by 1953). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (October 25).
When to clean gutters in Lawrenceville
The first fall frost comes around October 25 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 12 (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 Lawrenceville rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Lawrenceville the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.57 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 950 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,900, 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 Lawrenceville
Half the homes in Lawrenceville were built by 1953, 87% 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.
66% of households own their home, and 77% 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 Illinois
Before hiring in Lawrenceville, ask which Illinois license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Lawrenceville
With half the homes built by 1953, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: