Teller County, Colorado
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Woodland Park, CO
Rain in Woodland Park adds up to about 30 inches in a normal year, with about 4 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 10.6 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 3.6. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 18,500 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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By heavy-rain days, Woodland Park falls 3rd for heavy-rain days of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (4.4 a year). Its housing ranks near the middle of the 181 places in Colorado on this site (half built by 1992). By first frost it falls 23rd earliest for the first fall frost of the 182 places in Colorado on this site (September 21).
When to clean gutters in Woodland Park
The first fall frost comes around September 21 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around June 1 (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 Woodland Park rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Woodland Park the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.24 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,370 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,750, 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.
Woodland Park averages about 134 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 Woodland Park
Half the homes in Woodland Park were built by 1992, 25% 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.
76% of households own their home, and 78% of homes are detached houses, 5% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Colorado
Before hiring in Woodland Park, ask which Colorado license or registration the contractor holds and for a certificate of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Woodland Park
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1992, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: