Union County, South Carolina
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Buffalo, SC
Buffalo gets about 45 inches of rain in a normal year, and on about 13 days a year an inch or more falls in a single day. The wettest season is winter (December to February), with about 12.1 inches; the driest is fall (September to November), with 10.3. Off a 1,000-square-foot roof, that comes to about 28,100 gallons a year for the gutters to carry.
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NOAA station USC00388786, 8 miBars to one scale; the longest is winter (December to February).
By heavy-rain days, Buffalo falls near the middle of the 266 places in South Carolina on this site (13.2 a year). Its housing ranks 61st oldest by median year built of the 265 places in South Carolina on this site (half built by 1971). By first frost it falls 10th earliest for the first fall frost of the 263 places in South Carolina on this site (October 30).
When to clean gutters in Buffalo
The first fall frost comes around October 30 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 6 (median dates, NOAA normals). A fall cleaning set for the weeks after that frost, when the branches over the house are bare, gets the year’s leaves in one trip; a spring visit follows once the pollen and catkins have come down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Buffalo rain
Gutters are sized for the worst few minutes of a storm, not for the year. In Buffalo the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 7.72 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 2). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 930 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 1,870, 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 Buffalo
Half the homes in Buffalo were built by 1971, 54% before 1980 (ACS 2020–2024). At that age a gutter has seen decades of leaves and storms, and the fascia it hangs from has too. 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.
84% of households own their home, and 56% of homes are detached houses. If an association maintains the exterior, the gutters may be its job rather than yours; check before calling.
Hiring in South Carolina
South Carolina has no license category for gutters. The Residential Builders Commission registers specialty trades for work over $500, and gutters are not among them; under the statute, repair or improvement of a home costing more than $5,000 is residential builder work. For a large job, ask what license the contractor holds and look it up; for any job, ask for proof of insurance.
Source: S.C. Code, Title 40 Chapter 59. Look-up: S.C. LLR, licensee lookup.
Gutter work in Buffalo
With half the homes built by 1971, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: