Douglas County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Sierra Ridge, CO
Rain in Sierra Ridge adds up to about 15 inches in a normal year, with about 2 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 6.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 1.2. That is about 9,300 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USW00093067, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Sierra Ridge sits near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (1.9 a year). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (October 8).
When to clean gutters in Sierra Ridge
The first fall frost comes around October 8 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 5 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Sierra Ridge rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Sierra Ridge the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.46 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,320 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,640, 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.
Sierra Ridge averages about 58 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 Sierra Ridge
62% of households own their home, and 70% of homes are detached houses, 1% 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 Sierra Ridge what Colorado requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Sierra Ridge
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by recent decades, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: