Salt Lake County, Utah
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Murray, UT
Murray gets about 24 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 3 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. 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).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Murray sits 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 20th oldest by median year built of the 142 places in Utah on this site (half built by 1978). 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 Murray
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). 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 Murray rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Murray the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.28 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,200 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 4,390, 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.
Murray 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 Murray
Half the homes in Murray were built by 1978, 54% 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.
65% of households own their home, and 52% of homes are detached houses, 11% 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 Murray what Utah requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Murray
With half the homes built by 1978, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: