Travis County, Texas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in The Hills, TX
A normal year in The Hills brings about 36 inches of rain; on roughly 11 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 10.6 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 7.5. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 22,100 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00412585, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
By heavy-rain days, The Hills falls near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (10.6 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 959 places in Texas on this site (half built by 1996). The first frost here ranks 198th earliest for the first fall frost of the 821 places in Texas on this site (November 13).
When to clean gutters in The Hills
The first fall frost comes around November 13 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around March 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 The Hills rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In The Hills the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 9.46 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 11). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 760 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,520, 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 The Hills
Half the homes in The Hills were built by 1996, 4% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). With homes this new, the gutters are usually the builder’s originals; keeping them clear matters more than replacing them.
96% of households own their home, and 97% of homes are detached houses, 3% 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 The Hills, ask which Texas license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in The Hills
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1996, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: