Todd County, Minnesota
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Staples, MN
A normal year in Staples brings about 29 inches of rain; on roughly 6 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 12.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 2.5. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 18,200 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00218579, 16 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Staples ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 334 places in Minnesota on this site (5.6 a year). Its housing ranks 47th oldest by median year built of the 335 places in Minnesota on this site (half built by 1962). The first frost here ranks 51st earliest for the first fall frost of the 336 places in Minnesota on this site (September 30).
When to clean gutters in Staples
The first fall frost comes around September 30 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 10 (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 Staples rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Staples the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.31 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 980 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,970, 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 51 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 Staples
Half the homes in Staples were built by 1962, 68% 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.
67% of households own their home, and 67% 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 Minnesota
Before hiring in Staples, ask which Minnesota license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Staples
With half the homes built by 1962, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: