Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in New Roads, LA
A normal year in New Roads brings about 59 inches of rain; on roughly 19 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 17.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.2. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 36,300 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00166686, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, New Roads falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (18.6 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1980). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (December 5).
When to clean gutters in New Roads
The first fall frost comes around December 5 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 19 (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 New Roads rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In New Roads the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.26 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 700 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,400, 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 New Roads
Half the homes in New Roads were built by 1980, 50% 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.
74% of households own their home, and 77% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Louisiana
Before hiring in New Roads, ask which Louisiana license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in New Roads
With half the homes built by 1980, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: