St. James Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Paulina, LA
A normal year in Paulina brings about 65 inches of rain; on roughly 18 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 22.5 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.7. That is about 40,000 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 USC00165783, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Paulina sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (17.7 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 2004). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (December 14).
When to clean gutters in Paulina
The first fall frost comes around December 14 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 9 (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 Paulina rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Paulina the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.08 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 710 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,430, 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 Paulina
Half the homes in Paulina were built by 2004, 32% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
98% of households own their home, and 79% of homes are detached houses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Louisiana
Ask any contractor working in Paulina what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Paulina
With 17.7 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: