Lawrence County, Illinois
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Sumner, IL
Sumner gets about 47 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 14 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 13.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 9.4. That is about 28,900 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 USC00114957, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Sumner ranks 9th for heavy-rain days of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (13.9 a year). By house age it falls 90th oldest by median year built of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (half built by 1955). By its first fall frost it sits among the latest for the first fall frost of the 695 places in Illinois on this site (October 25).
When to clean gutters in Sumner
The first fall frost comes around October 25 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 12 (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 Sumner rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Sumner the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.58 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 950 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,900, 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 Sumner
Half the homes in Sumner were built by 1955, 69% 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. 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.
77% of households own their home, and 75% of homes are detached houses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Illinois
Ask any contractor working in Sumner what Illinois requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Sumner
With half the homes built by 1955, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: