Hancock County, Maine
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Bar Harbor, ME
Bar Harbor gets about 56 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 17 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 16.0 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 11.0. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 34,400 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00170100, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Bar Harbor ranks 1st for heavy-rain days of the 87 places in Maine on this site (16.8 a year). Its housing ranks 17th oldest by median year built of the 87 places in Maine on this site (half built by 1954). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 87 places in Maine on this site (October 22).
When to clean gutters in Bar Harbor
The first fall frost comes around October 22 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 27 (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 Bar Harbor rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Bar Harbor the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.68 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,270 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,540, 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 Bar Harbor
Half the homes in Bar Harbor were built by 1954, 70% 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. 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.
50% of households own their home, and 51% of homes are detached houses, 8% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in Maine
Ask any contractor working in Bar Harbor what Maine requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Bar Harbor
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: