Woodson County, Kansas
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Yates Center, KS
A normal year in Yates Center brings about 42 inches of rain; on roughly 12 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 14.3 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 4.5. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 25,900 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00149080, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
By heavy-rain days, Yates Center falls 20th for heavy-rain days of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (12.3 a year). Its housing ranks 30th oldest by median year built of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (half built by 1954). By first frost it falls among the latest for the first fall frost of the 162 places in Kansas on this site (October 28).
When to clean gutters in Yates Center
The first fall frost comes around October 28 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 10 (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 Yates Center rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Yates Center the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 8.24 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 8). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 870 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,750, 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.
The houses in Yates Center
Half the homes in Yates Center were built by 1954, 88% 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. On a house built before 1978, replacing more than 20 square feet of painted fascia or trim falls under the EPA’s lead-safe rule, so ask whether the crew is certified.
73% of households own their home, and 79% of homes are detached houses, 3% townhouses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in Kansas
Licensing for gutter work differs from state to state; ask a contractor in Yates Center which license or registration they hold in Kansas, and for proof of liability insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Yates Center
With half the homes built by 1954, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: