Ouray County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Ridgway, CO
Ridgway gets about 16 inches of rain in a normal year, and a day with an inch or more comes once every 3 years or so. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 4.7 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 10,000 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00057020, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Ridgway falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (0.4 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 1999). By first frost it falls 13th earliest for the first fall frost of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (September 13).
When to clean gutters in Ridgway
The first fall frost comes around September 13 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around June 11 (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 Ridgway rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Ridgway the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.08 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,340 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 4,680, 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.
With about 81 inches of snow in a normal year here (NOAA normals), gutters carry ice as well as water. Ice dams start with heat from the house melting roof snow that refreezes at the edge (University of Minnesota Extension); the fix for the dam is in the attic, and the gutter’s part is to be hung strongly enough to take the weight.
The houses in Ridgway
Half the homes in Ridgway were built by 1999, 25% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). With homes this new, the gutters are usually the builder’s originals; keeping them clear matters more than replacing them.
55% of households own their home, and 52% of homes are detached houses, 8% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Colorado
Before hiring in Ridgway, ask which Colorado license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Ridgway
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1999, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: