Kleberg County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Ricardo, TX
Ricardo gets about 27 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 8 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 9.1 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.0. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 16,700 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USW00012928, 6 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
By heavy-rain days, Ricardo falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (8.0 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1991). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (December 14).
When to clean gutters in Ricardo
The first fall frost comes around December 14 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 3 (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 Ricardo rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Ricardo the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.50 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 760 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,520, 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 Ricardo
Half the homes in Ricardo were built by 1991, 16% 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.
94% of households own their home, and 77% of homes are detached houses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Texas
Before hiring in Ricardo, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Ricardo
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1991, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: