Grafton County, New Hampshire
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Bethlehem, NH
Bethlehem gets about 41 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 7 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is summer (June to August), with about 13.0 inches; the driest is winter (December to February), with 8.0. That is about 25,400 gallons a year off each 1,000 square feet of roof, every drop of it through a gutter and a downspout.
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NOAA station USC00270706, 2 miBars to one scale; the longest is summer (June to August).
For days with an inch of rain or more, Bethlehem ranks among the fewest heavy-rain days of the 60 places in New Hampshire on this site (6.9 a year). By the age of its homes it sits near the middle of the 60 places in New Hampshire on this site (half built by 1968). By its first fall frost it sits 1st earliest for the first fall frost of the 60 places in New Hampshire on this site (September 18).
When to clean gutters in Bethlehem
The first fall frost comes around September 18 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around May 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 Bethlehem rain
What overwhelms a gutter is a burst, not a season. In Bethlehem the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 5.57 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,290 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,590, 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.
With about 101 inches of snow in a normal year here (NOAA normals), gutters carry ice as well as water. Ice dams start with heat from the house melting roof snow that refreezes at the edge (University of Minnesota Extension); the fix for the dam is in the attic, and the gutter’s part is to be hung strongly enough to take the weight.
The houses in Bethlehem
Half the homes in Bethlehem were built by 1968, 69% 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.
70% of households own their home, and 69% of homes are detached houses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in New Hampshire
Ask any contractor working in Bethlehem what New Hampshire requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Bethlehem
With half the homes built by 1968, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: