Santa Fe County, New Mexico
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Tesuque, NM
Tesuque gets about 23 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 8.9 inches; the driest is spring (March to May), with 4.5. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 14,500 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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By heavy-rain days, Tesuque falls 3rd for heavy-rain days of the 71 places in New Mexico on this site (2.6 a year). Its housing ranks 15th oldest by median year built of the 71 places in New Mexico on this site (half built by 1976). By first frost it falls 15th earliest for the first fall frost of the 71 places in New Mexico on this site (October 6).
When to clean gutters in Tesuque
The first fall frost comes around October 6 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 14 (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 Tesuque rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Tesuque the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 4.94 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 1). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,460 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,910, 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 Tesuque
Half the homes in Tesuque were built by 1976, 54% 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.
69% of households own their home, and 81% of homes are detached houses, 8% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in New Mexico
Before hiring in Tesuque, ask which New Mexico license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Tesuque
With half the homes built by 1976, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: