Collin County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Plano, TX
Plano gets about 42 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 14 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 12.3 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 8.5. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 26,000 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00417588, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
By heavy-rain days, Plano falls near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (13.8 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1993). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 21).
When to clean gutters in Plano
The first fall frost comes around November 21 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 7 (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 Plano rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Plano the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.33 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 860 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,730, 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 Plano
Half the homes in Plano were built by 1993, 19% 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.
57% of households own their home, and 59% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Texas
Before hiring in Plano, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Plano
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1993, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: