Mesa County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Redlands, CO
Redlands gets about 11 inches of rain in a normal year, and a day with an inch or more comes once every 10 years or so. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 3.4 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 7,000 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00051772, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Redlands ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (0.1 a year). Its housing ranks 38th oldest by median year built of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 1977). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (October 16).
When to clean gutters in Redlands
The first fall frost comes around October 16 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 26 (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 Redlands rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Redlands the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.10 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,320 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 4,650, 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.
Redlands is dry by national standards, about 11 inches in a normal year, but much of the rain that does come can arrive in short, hard storms: the five-minute downpour expected once in ten years still runs at 3.10 inches an hour. Where gutters are used here, the job is moving that burst away from the foundation, and keeping a dry season’s dust and debris from blocking the first storm.
The houses in Redlands
Half the homes in Redlands were built by 1977, 59% 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.
90% of households own their home, and 92% 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 Colorado
Before hiring in Redlands, ask which Colorado license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Redlands
With half the homes built by 1977, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: