Ward County, North Dakota
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Surrey, ND
Surrey gets about 17 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 3 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 8.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 0.9. That is about 10,400 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 USW00024013, 7 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Surrey sits among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 34 places in North Dakota on this site (2.7 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 34 places in North Dakota on this site (half built by 1998). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 34 places in North Dakota on this site (October 1).
When to clean gutters in Surrey
The first fall frost comes around October 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 10 (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 Surrey rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Surrey the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.40 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,130 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,250, 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.
Surrey averages about 45 inches of snow a year (NOAA normals). Snow on a roof brings ice dams: heat escaping from the house melts the snow, and the water refreezes at the cold eave, in the gutter and over it. University of Minnesota Extension puts the cause in the attic, not in the gutter, so a gutter that fills with ice is a symptom; hangers spaced to carry ice and a sound fascia are what the gutter itself needs.
The houses in Surrey
Half the homes in Surrey were built by 1998, 42% 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. 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.
94% of households own their home, and 87% 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 North Dakota
Ask any contractor working in Surrey what North Dakota requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Surrey
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1998, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: