Fremont County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lincoln Park, CO
Lincoln Park gets about 14 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 1 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 5.2 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 1.6. That is about 8,500 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 USC00051294, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Lincoln Park sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (1.2 a year). Its housing ranks 19th oldest by median year built of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 1972). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (October 7).
When to clean gutters in Lincoln Park
The first fall frost comes around October 7 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 4 (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 Lincoln Park rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Lincoln Park the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.24 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,370 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,750, 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.
Lincoln Park averages about 38 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.
Lincoln Park is dry by national standards, about 14 inches in a normal year, but much of the rain that does come can arrive in short, hard storms: the five-minute downpour expected once in ten years still runs at 5.24 inches an hour. Where gutters are used here, the job is moving that burst away from the foundation, and keeping a dry season’s dust and debris from blocking the first storm.
The houses in Lincoln Park
Half the homes in Lincoln Park were built by 1972, 74% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Houses that age have often had their gutters replaced once already; if not, the original runs and the boards behind them deserve a close look. 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.
81% of households own their home, and 69% 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 Colorado
Ask any contractor working in Lincoln Park what Colorado requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Lincoln Park
With half the homes built by 1972, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: