Carver County, Minnesota
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Watertown, MN
Rain in Watertown adds up to about 31 inches in a normal year, with about 7 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 12.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 2.6. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 18,900 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00217020, 10 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Watertown falls near the middle of the 334 places in Minnesota on this site (7.2 a year). Its housing ranks among the newest by median year built of the 335 places in Minnesota on this site (half built by 1995). By first frost it falls near the middle of the 336 places in Minnesota on this site (October 8).
When to clean gutters in Watertown
The first fall frost comes around October 8 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 30 (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 Watertown rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Watertown the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.73 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 930 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,860, 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.
Watertown averages about 45 inches of snow a year (NOAA normals). Snow on a roof brings ice dams: heat escaping from the house melts the snow, and the water refreezes at the cold eave, in the gutter and over it. University of Minnesota Extension puts the cause in the attic, not in the gutter, so a gutter that fills with ice is a symptom; hangers spaced to carry ice and a sound fascia are what the gutter itself needs.
The houses in Watertown
Half the homes in Watertown were built by 1995, 33% 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.
79% of households own their home, and 74% of homes are detached houses, 9% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Minnesota
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Watertown which license or registration they hold in Minnesota, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Watertown
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1995, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: