East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Oak Hills Place, LA
Oak Hills Place gets about 68 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 21 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 20.6 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 13.9. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 41,900 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00160548, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Oak Hills Place falls 60th for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (20.9 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1998). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (November 26).
When to clean gutters in Oak Hills Place
The first fall frost comes around November 26 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 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 Oak Hills Place rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Oak Hills Place the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.96 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 720 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,450, 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 Oak Hills Place
Half the homes in Oak Hills Place were built by 1998, 15% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Most houses here are young enough to have their first gutters, so cleanings, guards and small leaks come up more than replacements.
71% of households own their home, and 62% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Louisiana
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Oak Hills Place which license or registration they hold in Louisiana, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Oak Hills Place
With 20.9 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: