Martin County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Stanton, TX
Rain in Stanton adds up to about 16 inches in a normal year, with about 4 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 5.2 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 2.2. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 9,800 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00415158, 13 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Stanton falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 959 places in Texas on this site (4.2 a year). Its housing ranks 114th oldest by median year built of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1969). By first frost it falls 117th earliest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 9).
When to clean gutters in Stanton
The first fall frost comes around November 9 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 26 (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 Stanton rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Stanton the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.64 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 940 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,880, 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 Stanton
Half the homes in Stanton were built by 1969, 63% 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.
59% of households own their home, and 67% of homes are detached houses, 6% townhouses. 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 Stanton which license or registration they hold in Texas, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Stanton
With half the homes built by 1969, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: