San Miguel County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Telluride, CO
Telluride gets about 20 inches of rain in a normal year, and a day with an inch or more comes once every 3 years or so. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 5.8 inches. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof that is about 12,600 gallons a year, most of it in steady rain rather than downpours.
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NOAA station USC00058204, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Telluride falls among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (0.3 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 1986). By first frost it falls 37th earliest for the first fall frost of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (October 1).
When to clean gutters in Telluride
The first fall frost comes around October 1 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 17 (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 Telluride rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Telluride the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 3.61 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,990 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 3,990, 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.
With about 131 inches of snow in a normal year here (NOAA normals), gutters carry ice as well as water. Ice dams start with heat from the house melting roof snow that refreezes at the edge (University of Minnesota Extension); the fix for the dam is in the attic, and the gutter’s part is to be hung strongly enough to take the weight.
The houses in Telluride
Half the homes in Telluride were built by 1986, 35% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). Houses that age have often had their gutters replaced once already; if not, the original runs and the boards behind them deserve a close look.
72% of households own their home, and 32% of homes are detached houses, 2% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Colorado
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Telluride which license or registration they hold in Colorado, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Telluride
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1986, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: