Salt Lake County, Utah
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Midvale, UT
Rain in Midvale adds up to about 24 inches in a normal year, with about 3 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 8.8 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 2.9. That is about 15,100 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 USC00421759, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Midvale ranks 20th for heavy-rain days of the 142 places in Utah on this site (3.3 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 142 places in Utah on this site (half built by 1987). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 142 places in Utah on this site (October 22).
When to clean gutters in Midvale
The first fall frost comes around October 22 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 29 (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 Midvale rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Midvale the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.32 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,170 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 4,340, 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.
Midvale averages about 82 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 Midvale
Half the homes in Midvale were built by 1987, 41% 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.
44% of households own their home, and 35% of homes are detached houses, 13% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Utah
Ask any contractor working in Midvale what Utah requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Midvale
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1987, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: