Sheboygan County, Wisconsin
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Sheboygan, WI
Rain in Sheboygan adds up to about 35 inches in a normal year, with about 6 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.2 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 5.9. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 21,500 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00477725, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Sheboygan ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 386 places in Wisconsin on this site (6.3 a year). Its housing ranks 29th oldest by median year built of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (half built by 1958). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 387 places in Wisconsin on this site (October 23).
When to clean gutters in Sheboygan
The first fall frost comes around October 23 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 25 (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 Sheboygan rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Sheboygan the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.78 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,060 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,120, 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 Sheboygan
Half the homes in Sheboygan were built by 1958, 75% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit. 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.
60% of households own their home, and 58% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Wisconsin
Ask any contractor working in Sheboygan what Wisconsin requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Sheboygan
With half the homes built by 1958, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: