West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Port Allen, LA
A normal year in Port Allen brings about 64 inches of rain; on roughly 22 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 19.0 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.9. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 39,700 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00167448, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Port Allen ranks 22nd for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (21.8 a year). By the age of its homes it sits 6th oldest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1962). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (November 24).
When to clean gutters in Port Allen
The first fall frost comes around November 24 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 28 (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 Port Allen rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Port Allen the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.91 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 730 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,450, 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 Port Allen
Half the homes in Port Allen were built by 1962, 82% 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.
64% of households own their home, and 78% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Louisiana
Before hiring in Port Allen, ask which Louisiana license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Port Allen
With half the homes built by 1962, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: