City of Lawrenceville
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Lawrenceville, GA
Metro Atlanta weather, Lawrenceville edition: 56 inches of rain in an average year and 18 days with an inch or more. Summer (June to August) is the wettest stretch (15.1 in). Picture 34,900 gallons a year coming off each 1,000 square feet of shingles.
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NOAA station USC00096407, 13 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
Lawrenceville lands 1st for heavy-rain days of the 76 places on this site (17.9 a year) on inch-plus rain days. On house age it is near the middle of the 76 places on this site (half built by 1987). Frost timing: near the middle of the 76 places on this site (November 7).
Cleanout calendar
Median frost dates for Lawrenceville: first in fall about November 7, last in spring about April 3 (NOAA). Schedule the leaf cleanout once the frost has come and the hardwoods are bare, and a second pass after the spring pine pollen.
More on the timing, and on how the trees over a roof change it: when to clean gutters in metro Atlanta.
Downpours and downspouts
Summer storms here dump rain in bursts. For Lawrenceville, NOAA Atlas 14 puts the ten-year, five-minute burst at 7.88 inches an hour. Using the Copper Development Association rule, that means roughly 910 sq ft of roof per 2×3 downspout, or 1,830 sq ft per 3×4.
Work out your own roof with the gutter size calculator, which uses this figure for Lawrenceville.
Lawrenceville’s houses
The typical house in Lawrenceville dates to 1987, and 31% predate 1980 (Census ACS). Original gutters on houses this age are near the end of their run; check the wood they hang on too.
Owners occupy 49% of homes; 54% are single-family detached and 9% attached. In HOA neighborhoods, ask the association first.
Runoff, drains and the county
Lawrenceville is an incorporated city, so questions about street drains, ditches and runoff start with the city’s public works office; Gwinnett County answers for the unincorporated areas around it. The gutter’s job ends at the downspout: water let out next to the foundation can come back as a wet crawl space or a washed-out bed. Downspouts and drainage
Common calls from Lawrenceville
17.9 inch-plus days a year expose clogs and short downspouts fast.