Salt Lake County, Utah
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Salt Lake City, UT
Salt Lake City gets about 18 inches of rain in a normal year, and a day with an inch or more comes once every 2 years or so. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 6.7 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 11,000 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00427606, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Salt Lake City ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 142 places in Utah on this site (0.9 a year). Its housing ranks 5th oldest by median year built of the 142 places in Utah on this site (half built by 1963). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 142 places in Utah on this site (November 8).
When to clean gutters in Salt Lake City
The first fall frost comes around November 8 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 31 (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 Salt Lake City rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Salt Lake City the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.13 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 2,300 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 4,600, 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 49 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 Salt Lake City
Half the homes in Salt Lake City were built by 1963, 68% 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.
47% of households own their home, and 44% of homes are detached houses, 4% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Utah
Before hiring in Salt Lake City, ask which Utah license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Salt Lake City
With half the homes built by 1963, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: