Austin County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in San Felipe, TX
A normal year in San Felipe brings about 49 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 13.5 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.3. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 30,400 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00414704, 17 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
By heavy-rain days, San Felipe falls 148th for heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (16.0 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1986). By first frost it falls among the latest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 30).
When to clean gutters in San Felipe
The first fall frost comes around November 30 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 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 San Felipe rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In San Felipe the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.38 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 770 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,540, 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 San Felipe
Half the homes in San Felipe were built by 1986, 39% 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.
84% of households own their home, and 81% of homes are detached houses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Texas
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in San Felipe which license or registration they hold in Texas, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in San Felipe
With 16.0 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: