Dane County, Wisconsin
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Middleton, WI
A normal year in Middleton brings about 39 inches of rain; on roughly 10 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 14.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.1. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 24,300 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00471416, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Middleton falls 9th for heavy-rain days of the 386 places in Wisconsin on this site (9.6 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (half built by 1986). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (October 15).
When to clean gutters in Middleton
The first fall frost comes around October 15 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 28 (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 Middleton rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Middleton the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.26 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 990 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,980, 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.
With about 39 inches of snow in a normal year here (NOAA normals), gutters carry ice as well as water. Ice dams start with heat from the house melting roof snow that refreezes at the edge (University of Minnesota Extension); the fix for the dam is in the attic, and the gutter’s part is to be hung strongly enough to take the weight.
The houses in Middleton
Half the homes in Middleton were built by 1986, 42% 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.
48% of households own their home, and 37% of homes are detached houses, 7% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Wisconsin
Before hiring in Middleton, ask which Wisconsin license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Middleton
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1986, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: