Montgomery County, Arkansas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Mount Ida, AR
Rain in Mount Ida adds up to about 58 inches in a normal year, with about 19 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 17.7 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 11.9. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 35,900 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00034988, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Mount Ida ranks 16th for heavy-rain days of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (18.7 a year). By house age it falls 34th oldest by median year built of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (half built by 1975). The first frost here ranks 12th earliest for the first fall frost of the 211 places in Arkansas on this site (October 26).
When to clean gutters in Mount Ida
The first fall frost comes around October 26 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 8 (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 Mount Ida rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Mount Ida the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.82 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 820 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,630, 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 Mount Ida
Half the homes in Mount Ida were built by 1975, 55% 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.
52% of households own their home, and 72% 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 Arkansas
Ask any contractor working in Mount Ida what Arkansas requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Mount Ida
With half the homes built by 1975, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: