Marshall County, West Virginia
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Benwood, WV
Rain in Benwood adds up to about 42 inches in a normal year, with about 7 days that bring an inch or more. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 11.5 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 9.3. Every 1,000 square feet of roof sheds about 26,000 gallons a year, and all of it goes through the gutters.
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NOAA station USC00469482, 4 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Benwood ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 147 places in West Virginia on this site (7.3 a year). Its housing ranks 8th oldest by median year built of the 147 places in West Virginia on this site (half built by 1945). The first frost here ranks among the latest for the first fall frost of the 147 places in West Virginia on this site (October 29).
When to clean gutters in Benwood
The first fall frost comes around October 29 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 20 (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 Benwood rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Benwood the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.35 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,130 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,270, 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 Benwood
Half the homes in Benwood were built by 1945, 90% 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.
67% of households own their home, and 64% of homes are detached houses, 13% townhouses. Where an HOA governs the exterior, its rules on gutter color and style apply before any order is placed.
Hiring in West Virginia
Ask any contractor working in Benwood what West Virginia requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Benwood
With half the homes built by 1945, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: