Hale County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Plainview, TX
A normal year in Plainview brings about 19 inches of rain; on roughly 5 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 7.2 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 2.0. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 12,000 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00417079, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Plainview falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (5.0 a year). Its housing ranks 99th oldest by median year built of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1968). The first frost here ranks 41st earliest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 2).
When to clean gutters in Plainview
The first fall frost comes around November 2 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 6 (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 Plainview rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Plainview the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.58 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 950 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,900, 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 Plainview
Half the homes in Plainview were built by 1968, 73% 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.
51% of households own their home, and 72% 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
Before hiring in Plainview, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Plainview
With half the homes built by 1968, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: