Taylor County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Potosi, TX
Potosi gets about 25 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 7 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 7.9 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 3.6. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 15,600 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00013962, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Potosi falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (6.6 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 2003). By first frost it falls 142nd earliest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 10).
When to clean gutters in Potosi
The first fall frost comes around November 10 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 20 (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 Potosi rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Potosi the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.03 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 900 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,790, 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 Potosi
Half the homes in Potosi were built by 2003, 28% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Most houses here are young enough to have their first gutters, so cleanings, guards and small leaks come up more than replacements.
83% of households own their home, and 84% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Texas
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Potosi which license or registration they hold in Texas, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Potosi
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2003, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: