Bexar County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Olmos Park, TX
Rain in Olmos Park adds up to about 34 inches in a normal year, with about 9 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 10.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 6.2. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 21,100 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00417947, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Olmos Park ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (9.2 a year). By house age it falls 2nd oldest by median year built of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1941). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 28).
When to clean gutters in Olmos Park
The first fall frost comes around November 28 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 25 (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 Olmos Park rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Olmos Park the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.16 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 790 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,570, 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 Olmos Park
Half the homes in Olmos Park were built by 1941, 88% 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.
84% of households own their home, and 65% 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 Texas
Ask any contractor working in Olmos Park what Texas requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Olmos Park
With half the homes built by 1941, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: