Fort Bend County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Richmond, TX
A normal year in Richmond brings about 51 inches of rain; on roughly 16 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 14.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.7. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 31,700 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00417594, 0 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
By heavy-rain days, Richmond falls 178th for heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (15.5 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1979). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (December 13).
When to clean gutters in Richmond
The first fall frost comes around December 13 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 9 (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 Richmond rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Richmond the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.89 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 730 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,460, 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 Richmond
Half the homes in Richmond were built by 1979, 52% 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. 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.
60% of households own their home, and 56% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. 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 Richmond, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Richmond
With half the homes built by 1979, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: