St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Sunset, LA
Rain in Sunset adds up to about 62 inches in a normal year, with about 19 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 15.9 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 14.8. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 38,200 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00163800, 1 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Sunset falls near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (19.3 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1983). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (November 23).
When to clean gutters in Sunset
The first fall frost comes around November 23 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 28 (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 Sunset rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Sunset the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.34 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 700 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,390, 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 Sunset
Half the homes in Sunset were built by 1983, 45% 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.
72% of households own their home, and 70% of homes are detached houses, 1% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Louisiana
Before hiring in Sunset, ask which Louisiana license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Sunset
With half the homes built by 1983, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: