Augusta County, Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Stuarts Draft, VA
A normal year in Stuarts Draft brings about 45 inches of rain; on roughly 13 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 12.9 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 8.9. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 28,100 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00448941, 10 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Stuarts Draft ranks 60th for heavy-rain days of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (12.7 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 373 places in Virginia on this site (half built by 1992). The first frost here ranks 60th earliest for the first fall frost of the 375 places in Virginia on this site (October 23).
When to clean gutters in Stuarts Draft
The first fall frost comes around October 23 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 21 (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 Stuarts Draft rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Stuarts Draft the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.93 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,210 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,430, 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 Stuarts Draft
Half the homes in Stuarts Draft were built by 1992, 28% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit.
77% of households own their home, and 74% of homes are detached houses, 5% 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 Stuarts Draft
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1992, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: