Douglas County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Roxborough Park, CO
A normal year in Roxborough Park brings about 20 inches of rain; on roughly 3 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 7.5 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 2.6. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 12,600 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00058022, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Roxborough Park ranks 18th for heavy-rain days of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (3.0 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 2001). By its first fall frost it sits 37th earliest for the first fall frost of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (October 1).
When to clean gutters in Roxborough Park
The first fall frost comes around October 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 16 (median dates, NOAA normals). Plan the fall visit for after the frost, when the trees over the roof have finished dropping, and the spring visit for after the pollen and catkins.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Roxborough Park rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Roxborough Park the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.39 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,340 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,670, 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 86 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 Roxborough Park
Half the homes in Roxborough Park were built by 2001, 3% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
96% of households own their home, and 97% 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 Colorado
Ask any contractor working in Roxborough Park what Colorado requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Roxborough Park
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2001, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: