Fairfax County, Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in South Run, VA
A normal year in South Run brings about 44 inches of rain; on roughly 10 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.9 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.3. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 27,000 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00448737, 10 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, South Run falls near the middle of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (10.2 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 373 places in Virginia on this site (half built by 1987). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (October 29).
When to clean gutters in South Run
The first fall frost comes around October 29 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 14 (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 South Run rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In South Run the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.76 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,070 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,130, 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 South Run
Half the homes in South Run were built by 1987, 1% 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.
98% of households own their home, and 98% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Virginia
Virginia requires a Board for Contractors license for any contract over $1,000; gutter work on a home falls under the home improvement specialty (HIC) or the residential building classification. Ask for the license number and class, and look it up before signing.
Source: Code of Virginia § 54.1-1100. Look-up: Virginia DPOR, license lookup.
Gutter work in South Run
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1987, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: