Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Gutter cleaning, repair and new gutters in Buzzards Bay, MA
A normal year in Buzzards Bay brings about 51 inches of rain; on roughly 15 of its days, an inch or more comes down at once. The wettest season is fall (September to November), with about 14.0 inches; the driest is summer (June to August), with 10.4. That is about 31,700 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 USC00192451, 3 miBars to one scale; the longest is fall (September to November).
Counting days with an inch of rain or more, Buzzards Bay sits 29th for heavy-rain days of the 216 places in Massachusetts on this site (14.6 a year). By house age it falls near the middle of the 217 places in Massachusetts on this site (half built by 1960). By its first fall frost it sits near the middle of the 216 places in Massachusetts on this site (October 24).
When to clean gutters in Buzzards Bay
The first fall frost comes around October 24 in a typical year here, and the last spring frost around April 21 (median dates, NOAA normals). Booking the fall cleaning after the first frost, once the trees over the roof are bare, catches the season’s drop in one visit; the spring cleaning comes after the pollen and catkins are down.
When to clean gutters explains how the trees over a roof change the schedule.
Gutter and downspout size for Buzzards Bay rain
The short, hard downpour is what a gutter is sized for. In Buzzards Bay the five-minute rain expected about once in ten years falls at 6.89 inches an hour (NOAA Atlas 14 Volume 10). At that rate one 2-by-3-inch downspout drains about 1,040 square feet of roof and one 3-by-4-inch downspout about 2,090, 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.
Buzzards Bay averages about 37 inches of snow a year (NOAA normals). Snow on a roof brings ice dams: heat escaping from the house melts the snow, and the water refreezes at the cold eave, in the gutter and over it. University of Minnesota Extension puts the cause in the attic, not in the gutter, so a gutter that fills with ice is a symptom; hangers spaced to carry ice and a sound fascia are what the gutter itself needs.
The houses in Buzzards Bay
Half the homes in Buzzards Bay were built by 1960, 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.
76% of households own their home, and 81% of homes are detached houses, 5% townhouses. In a townhouse or HOA community, check who owns the gutters and what colors are allowed before booking.
Hiring in Massachusetts
Ask any contractor working in Buzzards Bay what Massachusetts requires of them for gutter work, and to show proof of insurance. Hiring a gutter contractor
Gutter work in Buzzards Bay
With half the homes built by 1960, replacement gutters and the fascia behind them come up more often here than in newer suburbs. The line takes all of it: