Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Ventress, LA
Ventress gets about 59 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 19 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 17.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 12.2. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 36,300 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00166686, 5 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Ventress ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (18.6 a year). By the age of its homes it sits among the newest by median year built of the 269 places in Louisiana on this site (half built by 1990). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 222 places in Louisiana on this site (December 5).
When to clean gutters in Ventress
The first fall frost comes around December 5 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around February 19 (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 Ventress rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Ventress the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 10.24 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 9). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 700 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,410, 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 Ventress
Half the homes in Ventress were built by 1990, 30% 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.
75% of households own their home, and 40% of homes are detached houses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Louisiana
Before hiring in Ventress, ask which Louisiana license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Ventress
With 18.6 days a year of an inch or more, a clogged gutter or a short downspout shows up here quickly. The line takes all of it: