Chambers County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Old River-Winfree, TX
A normal year in Old River-Winfree brings about 65 inches of rain; on roughly 20 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 19.4 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 13.4. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 40,100 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00410586, 10 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Old River-Winfree falls 5th for heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (20.0 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1991). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (December 4).
When to clean gutters in Old River-Winfree
The first fall frost comes around December 4 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 20 (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 Old River-Winfree rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Old River-Winfree the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.61 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 680 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,360, 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 Old River-Winfree
Half the homes in Old River-Winfree were built by 1991, 23% 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.
87% of households own their home, and 57% 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 Texas
Before hiring in Old River-Winfree, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Old River-Winfree
With 20.0 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: