Cape May County, New Jersey
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Avalon, NJ
Rain in Avalon adds up to about 44 inches in a normal year, with about 11 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.4 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 10.2. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 27,200 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00281351, 14 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Avalon ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (11.0 a year). By house age it falls among the newest by median year built of the 540 places in New Jersey on this site (half built by 1987). The first frost here ranks 132nd earliest for the first fall frost of the 547 places in New Jersey on this site (October 22).
When to clean gutters in Avalon
The first fall frost comes around October 22 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 24 (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 Avalon rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Avalon the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.41 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,120 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,250, 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 Avalon
Half the homes in Avalon were built by 1987, 36% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). In a neighborhood that age, many houses are on their second set of gutters or due for one, and the fascia board behind them is worth checking at the same visit.
95% of households own their home, and 68% of homes are detached houses, 22% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in New Jersey
Ask any contractor working in Avalon what New Jersey requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Avalon
In a neighborhood with half its homes built by 1987, the usual calls are cleaning, guards and small repairs. The line takes all of it: