Ouachita Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Sterlington, LA
Sterlington gets about 58 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 19 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 16.3 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.9. That is about 36,200 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 USC00160537, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Sterlington sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (18.5 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 2002). By its first fall frost it sits 18th earliest for the first fall frost of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (November 12).
When to clean gutters in Sterlington
The first fall frost comes around November 12 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 15 (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 Sterlington rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Sterlington the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.76 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 820 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,640, 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.
The houses in Sterlington
Half the homes in Sterlington were built by 2002, 27% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
50% of households own their home, and 50% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Louisiana
Ask any contractor working in Sterlington what Louisiana requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Sterlington
With 18.5 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: