St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Poydras, LA
Poydras gets about 64 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 20 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 21.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 13.5. That is about 39,600 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 USW00012958, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Poydras sits near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (20.0 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1980). 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 15).
When to clean gutters in Poydras
The first fall frost comes around December 15 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 4 (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 Poydras rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Poydras the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 11.00 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 650 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,310, 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 Poydras
Half the homes in Poydras were built by 1980, 50% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit. 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.
80% of households own their home, and 83% 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 Poydras what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Poydras
With half the homes built by 1980, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: