Brazoria County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Sweeny, TX
Sweeny gets about 46 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 fall (September to November), with about 14.0 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 9.7. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 28,400 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USW00012976, 15 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Sweeny ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (13.9 a year). By house age it falls 131st oldest by median year built of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1970). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (December 8).
When to clean gutters in Sweeny
The first fall frost comes around December 8 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 13 (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 Sweeny rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Sweeny the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.32 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 700 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,400, 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 Sweeny
Half the homes in Sweeny were built by 1970, 73% 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.
68% of households own their home, and 67% of homes are detached houses, 6% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Texas
Before hiring in Sweeny, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Sweeny
With half the homes built by 1970, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: