St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Reserve, LA
Rain in Reserve adds up to about 67 inches in a normal year, with about 23 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 21.4 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 14.2. That is about 41,700 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 USC00167767, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Reserve sits 3rd for heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (23.0 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1977). 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 14).
When to clean gutters in Reserve
The first fall frost comes around December 14 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 9 (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 Reserve rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Reserve the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.14 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 710 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,420, 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 Reserve
Half the homes in Reserve were built by 1977, 55% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Houses that age have often had their gutters replaced once already; if not, the original runs and the boards behind them deserve a close look. 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.
74% of households own their home, and 75% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. 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 Reserve what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Reserve
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: