Larimer County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Wellington, CO
A normal year in Wellington brings about 15 inches of rain; on roughly 2 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is spring (March to May), with about 5.7 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 1.3. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 9,200 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00053006, 9 miBars to one scale; the longest is spring (March to May).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Wellington ranks near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (2.0 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 2010). The first frost here ranks near the middle of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (October 6).
When to clean gutters in Wellington
The first fall frost comes around October 6 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 3 (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 Wellington rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Wellington the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.78 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,250 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,490, 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 48 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.
Wellington is dry by national standards, about 15 inches in a normal year, but much of the rain that does come can arrive in short, hard storms: the five-minute downpour expected once in ten years still runs at 5.78 inches an hour. Where gutters are used here, the job is moving that burst away from the foundation, and keeping a dry season’s dust and debris from blocking the first storm.
The houses in Wellington
Half the homes in Wellington were built by 2010, 7% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that young, many houses still have the gutters the builder put up, and the usual call is a cleaning, a leak or guards rather than a full replacement.
81% of households own their home, and 90% of homes are detached houses, 7% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Colorado
Ask any contractor working in Wellington what Colorado requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Wellington
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 2010, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: