Boise County, Idaho
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Robie Creek, ID
A normal year in Robie Creek brings about 32 inches of rain; on roughly 4 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 13.0 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 2.3. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 20,000 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USS0016F02S, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Robie Creek falls 6th for heavy-rain days of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (4.0 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (half built by 1994). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 90 places in Idaho on this site (October 14).
When to clean gutters in Robie Creek
The first fall frost comes around October 14 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 28 (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 Robie Creek rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Robie Creek the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 4.72 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 12). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,530 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,050, 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.
Robie Creek averages about 57 inches of snow a year (NOAA normals). Snow on a roof brings ice dams: heat escaping from the house melts the snow, and the water refreezes at the cold eave, in the gutter and over it. University of Minnesota Extension puts the cause in the attic, not in the gutter, so a gutter that fills with ice is a symptom; hangers spaced to carry ice and a sound fascia are what the gutter itself needs.
The houses in Robie Creek
Half the homes in Robie Creek were built by 1994, 9% 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.
99% of households own their home, and 100% 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 Idaho
Before hiring in Robie Creek, ask which Idaho license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Robie Creek
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1994, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: